‘Ghostbusters’ releases full trailer, pays homage and throws Easter eggs to original movie [VIDEO]

ghostbusters_2016_image_009 — Women take the lead with the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot Sony Pictures

The anticipated trailer of “Ghostbusters” has been released. The rebooted supernatural comedy features new faces – Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones – but emits a familiar feel as the team (with Chris Hemsworth as the new “Janine”) pay homage to the original “Ghostbusters” as they battle paranormal forces in New York City.

In the 2.5-minute clip, viewers learn how the new group of ghost-busting women came together. Contrary to the previous reports, the team isn’t composed of four scientists, just three, with one subway employee. Wiig and McCarthy’s characters appear to know each other before teaming up with a nuclear engineer (McKinnon) to fight ghosts. A subway worker (Jones) joins the group later on, providing them their own Ecto-1 from an old hearse.

Hemsworth also made an appearance in the clip. According to the film’s official site, Hemsworth plays Kevin, a “telecommunications expert, reception services technician, unemployed actor.” He is perhaps the new Janine Melnitz (played by Annie Potts in the first two films), who was the receptionist of the original Ghostbusters (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson).

Although this Paul Feig film looks brand new, fans of the first two films will recognise references in this new one. As iO9 notes, the female-driven flick pays homage to its predecessors, throwing in Easter eggs to the original movie.

First, there’s the firehouse shot, which was the headquarter of the first Ghostbusters. The girls’ HQ is an old Chinese restaurant. The place where the girls encountered a slim-discharging ghost also look more like a museum than a library, which was where they were supposed to be. Fans will recall that the first film’s main ghost emerged from a painting in a museum.

The girls are sporting the same beige jumpsuits, but their proton packs and the ghost trap look pretty new and much more hi-tech.

In one of the scenes with Erin Gilbert (Wiig), a professor at Columbia University, there are physics equation doodles on a whiteboard, which, iO9 discovers, have a hidden URL that leads to a website with fake diagrams and video of paranormal studies.