Dan Aykroyd Confirms His 1995 Casper Cameo as Ray Stantz Is, In Fact, Ghostbusters Canon

Setting the ghostbusting grounds straight, erstwhile and for all, is drama fable Dan Aykroyd, who playfully confirmed that his quality arsenic Ghostbusters quality Ray Stantz successful 1995 movie Casper is, successful fact, canon to the satellite of Ivan Reitman’s 1984 classic.

“I deliberation so,” Aykroyd said erstwhile asked if the infinitesimal was canonical during a caller interrogation with the Talking Strange podcast. “Given the information that Spielberg asked for maine and said, ‘Come and bash this,’ and that they built maine successful there. Of course, it’s a beauteous motion to what we were doing with Ivan [Reitman] and everybody. I deliberation you’ve got to see it determination successful the canon. No doubt.”

Just dawned connected maine the archetypal movie I saw 1 of the Ghostbusters was a cameo successful the freaking Casper movie. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/yDstdj4j2d

Fans — myself included — tin respire a suspiration of alleviation now, knowing that Stantz did, successful fact, effort to bust the friendliest shade of all, but didn’t, of course, succeed.

For those of you who don’t retrieve the hilarious cameo, it goes a small thing similar this. Casper centers connected a location called Whipstaff Manor, which is location to Casper and his 3 mean uncle ghosts. The location is near to a mean pistillate named Carrigan Crittenden, played by Cathy Moriarty, who learns that determination is immoderate benignant of invaluable treasure hidden determination successful the aged spot — however, she has to get Casper and his uncles retired of the location first. So she enlists a fewer folks to assistance her out, namely shade therapist Dr. James Harvey (Bill Pullman), but earlier helium comes on with his girl Kat (Christina Ricci), Ray Stantz gives it a try.

The ghostbuster, who dons an all-new mustache successful the cameo, enters the gathering and rapidly exits, but not earlier saying, “Who ya gonna call? Someone else.”

Aykroyd is 1 of the 4 iconic Ghostbusters, which besides includes Bill Murray arsenic Peter Venkman, Harold Remis arsenic Egon Spengler, and Ernie Hudson arsenic Winston Zeddemore. Casper stars Pullman, Moriarty, Ricci, and Devon Sawa voicing the rubric relation (and cameoing successful the last act).

Ghostbusters is presently disposable to watercourse for escaped connected The Roku Channel, and Casper tin presently beryllium recovered to watercourse via Netflix.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.