Ghostbusters: Afterlife is now just around the corner and there are no fans of the original movies that isn't a little bit excited to finally see Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson suiting up again to battle Gozer and help save the world from being sucked into the seventh level of hell. Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ahead of the movie's release this weekend after a year-long delay due to Covid-19 shutdowns and Sony's determination to put out the film in cinemas, the three surviving Ghostbusters from the original 1984 movie and its 1989 sequel discussed what it was like strapping on a Proton Pack again after 30 years. Bill Murray said this.

"It hurt. There was a lot of pain. For some reason these directors like to say, 'Alright, now you guys are all down on the ground,' with this thing on our back. And now you've gotta roll over, like a dead bug, and try to get up while wearing a vacuum cleaner. But it was... you had shockwaves of memory from it, and you went, 'oh god, this is horrible.' It was very long days, and it was a very heavy thing. It's not as heavy as the original was, but we're weaker. So it's about the same."

During the interview, the group reminisced about the original movies, as well as praising the work of Jason Reitman, who took the helm from his father Ivan, who is still very much an active part of the movie.

"Jason Reitman wrote a great script, so full of heart, going right back to the first two movies and its DNA... We just read it and thought, 'This is the right time,'" Dan Aykroyd said.

"Jason is the son of the original [Ghostbusters] director Ivan Reitman," Murray added. "He had his own take because he grew up as a child of the Ghostbusters in a way. He had something he thought would work as a good story and we all agreed that he got it." When asked if they remembered how the younger Reithman was on the set of the original movie, Murray said wryly, "He was a pain in the ass."

When it came to returning to the set for the first, Ernie Hudson said that it was a very emotional experience for him, especially as he had for many years believed that it was something that would never happen. "I never thought we would [be back]. Until I got there and I realized it's actually happening. But I will say, when I got in the suit, and Bill and Dan and Sigourney. It was almost spiritual, man. I was almost in tears. It was great."

Later in the interview the subject of the film's tone came up, with many critics having said that the film is a more serious and emotional affair than its predecessors and the trailers seeming to point to that being the case. According to Murray's witty summation, "Everyone that has seen it has said that they cry at the movie, so it should be an extremely successful comedy." However, where the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot spent too much time on badly judged and heavy handed jokes that took any seriousness out of that movie, it should be remembered that the original was scary first and a comedy second, meaning that once again fans of the 1984 movie should be right at home with Ghostbusters: Afterlife.