New Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire trailer introduces a gnarly sewer dragon as the gang face their biggest threat yet

The new international trailer for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has finally landed, revealing the franchise’s fiendishly frosty return to New York City. Who you gonna call? Yep, the Ghostbusters are back – along with the iconic theme tune, Slimer and marshmallows galore.

In the high-octane trailer, Paul Rudd’s Gary Grooberson and the Spengler family are front and center of the action. Audiences were first introduced to these characters in 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife – but this time around, they're chasing ghosts around the mean streets of Manhattan instead of living the quiet life in rural Oklahoma. 

Speaking to Total Film, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire director and co-writer Gil Kenan explains: "The move to Oklahoma in Afterlife was very much by design. We knew we had to get away from New York City in order to recontextualize what it meant to ghost-bust and what it meant to be a Ghostbuster. We wanted to refocus the stories on a character's arc; on the arc of the Spangler family and on Phoebe in particular. We needed to get away from the apparatus of ghostbusting in order to redefine it."

Kenan is chatting to TF after a sneak peek of the new trailer. He continues: "Having done that, the next task was, 'How do you take that discovery? How do you take the path that's been laid out in front of our characters and force them to step into the ring? What does it mean to be a Ghostbuster? What does it mean to be a Ghostbuster in New York City? And specifically, what does it mean to be a Ghostbuster in New York City when the greatest threat ever facing the institution comes to bear?' That’s this story."

The trailer also includes a new look at the ‘sewer dragon’ that the team are going to have to face this time around. Get a closer look at that, below:

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is the first movie in the spirited franchise to be filmed after the sad passing of Ivan Reitman, who directed the first two films and served as a producer/co-writer on 2021’s Afterlife(as well as a