Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire trailer sees Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd return alongside Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon – as climate change takes center stage in latest sequel

The Ghostbusters have proven in four movies over four decades that they aren’t ‘afraid of no ghosts.’

However, in the trailer for the upcoming film Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, climate change takes center stage and proves to be quite a challenge for the ragtag team of Ghostbusters. 

The latest film in the franchise is a follow-up to 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife. 

The plot of the film – which is due in theaters in March 2024 – centers on a killer storm that hits New York City, bringing with it a phenomenon known as the ‘death chill.’

Paul Rudd, 54, once again leads the band of Ghostbusters after a warm summer turns icy when the mysterious storm blankets the Big Apple.

Frozen Empire: The Ghostbusters have proven in four movies over four decades that they aren’t ‘afraid of no ghosts’

Iconic: However, in the trailer for the upcoming film Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, climate change takes center stage and proves to be quite a challenge for the ragtag team of Ghostbusters

The film brings 1980s franchise stars Bill Murray, 73, Dan Aykroyd, 71, Ernie Hudson, 77, and Annie Potts, 71, back to the firehouse. 

Rudd stars alongside Patton Oswalt, 54, Carrie Coon, McKenna Grace, 17, Celeste O’Connor, Finn Wolfhard and Kumali Nanjiani.

The synopsis for the film reveals that the Spengler family ‘returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level.

‘But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age,’ the synopsis continued.

Aykroyd’s character Raymond Stantz explains in the trailer that the death chill has the power to crack bones and turn veins into rivers of ice.

‘And the last thing you see is your own tear ducts freezing up,’ Stantz continues.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife was the first film in the franchise to leave New York City. It took place in Oklahoma. 

But now the Ghostbusters are back where they belong with a script from Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan and direction from Kenan. 

Summer turned icy: The latest film in the franchise is a follow-up to 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The plot of the film centers on a killer storm that hits New York City , bringing with it a phenomenon known as the ‘death chill’

Storm: Paul Rudd , 54, once again leads the band of Ghostbusters after a warm summer turn icy when the mysterious storm blankets the Big Apple

Ice age: The synopsis for the film reveals that the Spengler family ‘returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level

Lab: ‘But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age,’ the synopsis continued

Old school: The film brings 1980s franchise stars Bill Murray , 73, Dan Aykroyd , 71, Ernie Hudson, 77, and Annie Potts, 71, back to the firehouse

Brrrrrr: Aykroyd’s character Raymond Stantz explains in the trailer that the death chill has the power to crack bones and turn veins into rivers of ice

Cast: Rudd stars alongside Patton Oswalt , 54, Carrie Coon, McKenna Grace , 17, Celeste O’Connor, Finn Wolfhard and Kumali Nanjiani

Ice busting: The Ghostbusters must work against time to prevent a second Ice Age

Scary: ‘And the last thing you see is your own tear ducts freezing up,’ Stantz continues

Action packed: The film promises to bring the same spine tingling humor as the previous installments in the franchise

Getting it done: Determination is the name of the game for the Spengler family and the rest of the Ghostbusters

Worried: This is possibly the biggest challenge the Ghostbusters have faced to date

This is the first film in the franchise that didn’t feature involvement from Ivan Reitman, who died in 2022. He is credited as an executive producer on the film. 

‘It’s an absolute honor to pick up the proton pack and step behind the camera for the next chapter of the Spengler family saga,’ Kenan in a statement when he was announced as director in 2022. 

‘I just wish I could go back to 1984 and tell the kid in the sixth row of the Mann Valley West that one day he was going to get to direct a Ghostbusters film.’

Ghostbusters hits theaters on May 29.