Ghostbusters (2026); Phoebe
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Ghostbusters (2026); Phoebe Spengler; backstory
In my 2026 sequel, Phoebe - played by actress Mckenna Grace - is age 16. She’s so smart that she applied, and was accepted for undergraduate work next fall at New York University (NYU).
Phoebe picked NYU because of their new environmental engineering program.
Phoebe wants to save the world from not so supernatural forces - AKA: greed; short slightness; addiction to fossil fuels...
*maybe* why a new ice age began in Ghostbusters: Frozen empire (2024) ???
Background Information:
New York University (NYU) offers environmental engineering programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The NYU Tandon School of Engineering offers an MS in Environmental Engineering, which prepares students to design, control, and manage pollution-prevention systems. The program also offers a minor, which helps students develop skills in mass and energy balances, water resource engineering, and more.?
The program's urban environmental systems focus on challenges that New York City and other major cities face. Students learn to design water and wastewater treatment systems and their components. The program also includes research in water quality, wastewater treatment, and the detection and control of waterborne pathogens...
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Additional Background Information:
FYI: Her grandfather, Egon went to Columbia for his undergraduate engineering - and one of his PhD degrees.
What college degrees did Egon Spengler have?
Ghostbusters: 10 Things Only Fans Know About Egon Spengler
While all four of the original Ghostbusters are college graduates with doctorates, Egon was far more educated than the others. Not only did Egon get a doctorate in parapsychology from Columbia, but he also received a doctorate in physics from M.I.T.
Egon met Peter Venkman during their freshman year at Columbia University...
Phoebe Spengler backstory
Personality:
Phoebe is an awkward nerdy girl with some autistic traits. She has a dry sense of humor and reacts to new things and exhibits her emotions differently than others. She is also calmed by overstimulation.
Phoebe Spengler (2022). Ghostbusters: Afterlife Chapter 4 (2021) (Blu-Ray ts. 24:28-24:29). Phoebe Spengler says: "I don't believe in ghosts." < = this obviously changed as the plot progresses !
Alternately, a 2026 movie sequel could have Phoebe at age 18 = as Kate would also have to be 16 – 18.
For my movie, one of the campus buildings that Phoebe will visit / tour will be the Brown Building.
This will be where a campus freshman orientation mixer is being held = on the 9th floor.
This would explain how Phoebe and Kate meet = without using my girl Ghostbusters plot progression.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.
Who was held responsible for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire?
A fire in 1911 broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City, killing 146 people. Factory co-owners Isaac Harris and Max Blanck are indicted on charges of manslaughter. Harris and Blanck were brought to trial and found not guilty.
NYU: New York University
New York University Tandon School of Engineering
The Brown Building is a ten-story building that is part of the campus of New York University (NYU), which owns it. It is located at 23–29 Washington Place, between Greene Street and Washington Square East in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, and is best known as the location of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 25 1911, which killed 146 people.
The NYU Tandon School of Engineering
?I need Phoebe to go to college at Columbia; here is another reason why: Maybe I can “transfer” sustainable engineering classes to be held at NYU – or Phoebe can go to both Universities – as needed for her degree. Or just pretend that The Brown Building is part of Colombia - not NYU.
Columbia University - Engineering for Humanity
Preserving our planet while advancing the quality of life for people around the globe is one?of the most urgent challenges facing society. New and interdisciplinary ways of thinking are required to accelerate essential breakthroughs, from mitigating and reversing climate change to providing water and energy for a rapidly expanding population.
The global life expectancy of our species has doubled since 1900. As health and wellness practices become more personalized, precise, interactive and holistic for both individual patients and entire populations, technical advances will be critical to optimize care and ensure medical resources for underserved communities.
From economies to power grids, complex systems underpin our global society. To enhance?production and function, and to manage the inherent risks, we must better understand, model, design, predict, control and optimize the dynamics and behavior of such systems—both natural and human-engineered.
Technology is enabling an exponential increase in connectivity, as well as an explosion of data into all spheres of life. Harnessing that potential to improve the human experience requires progress in many areas—including new algorithms for data security and verification and new?methods to ensure transparency, ethics and equity.
Engineering is an essentially creative field, marked by an emphasis on immersion and exploration. What’s more, the tools and techniques we discover propel creativity and ingenuity in other fields. As we develop makerspaces and promote connections across backgrounds and disciplines, we create an environment where innovation flourishes.
They All Laughed - my idea about Phoebe meeting Kate = a ghost girl about her age, who tragically died in a NYC factory fire...
Yes, as in the real 2024 movie, in my film, Phoebe is secretly and unknowingly - in love with Kate.
BUT my character of Kate literally died from fear - after being trapped in a NYC factory fire in 1911...
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Feeling dejected while Gary, Callie and Trevor are out busting ghosts, Phoebe encounters Melody — played by Emily Alyn Lind — while playing chess by herself at a park.?
Phoebe takes a liking to Melody — who is roughly the same age — after the lonesome ghost reveals that she tragically died in a fire.
Who plays Melody in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire?
Feeling dejected while Gary, Callie and Trevor are out busting ghosts, Phoebe encounters Melody — played by Emily Alyn Lind — while playing chess by herself at a park.?
?Phoebe ends up playing chess with a ghostly apparition named Melody. The two develop a friendship, which includes a little flirting (although the movie appears unwilling to take things to the seemingly logical next step), but Melody has an ulterior motive...
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With a new generation of Spenglers relocating to New York and the iconic firehouse, the Ghostbusters sequel was always going to throw up – Slimer style – an adventure of ghastly proportions. Now that the dust has settled (and the ice has thawed) on the Frozen Empire ending, we’re here to pick over the bones of the big burning questions you may have about the new legacy sequel.
So join us as we break down all of Frozen Empire’s biggest talking points – and speculate as to what could be ahead for the Spengler family if we get Ghostbusters 5.?
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire ending – a quick recap
First, let’s go over what we all just saw. With the Ghostbusters shut down following Phoebe’s Public Library ghost hunt gone wrong, the youngest of the Spengler clan acts out and heads to Winston’s new containment unit so she can separate her spirit from her body and properly interact with her new ghost companion, Melody.
Unbeknownst to her, Melody is secretly in league with Frozen Empire’s villain Garraka, an ancient “phantom god” who wants to raise an army of the undead and take over the world.
While Phoebe is in spirit limbo, Garraka takes over her body – allowing him to break free of the spirit orb once held by Nadeem’s grandmother. From there, he inflicts a deathly, wintry chill over Manhattan.
Thanks to the guidance of Patton Oswalt’s lorekeeping Dr. Wartzki, the gang discover that they can trap Garraka using brass and Nadeem’s firemaster skills.?
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Unfortunately, things quickly go wrong as Garraka enters the firehouse and freezes everyone – including the OG Ghostbusters team. Thankfully, Melody has a change of heart, and uses the last match from the matchbook that accidentally killed her family to give Nadeem the spark he needed to turn the tide of battle and free everyone.
Garraka is eventually defeated, with the OG Ghostbusters working together to reset the original containment unit in the basement. A chasm opens up in the firehouse and Garraka is sucked in. Melody, having let go of her grief with the matchbook, is also freed to see her family in the beyond.
Having saved the day, the Ghostbusters are back in action and officially (and unwittingly) endorsed by the mayor on national television. Phoebe – having rebelled against her family for much of the film – finally accepts former teacher Gary as her dad.
As Slimer flies through a New York block, Trev takes the wheel of the Ecto-1 and gives chase.
In a quick Frozen Empire post-credits scene, the Mini-Pufts are seen hijacking a Stay-Puft truck.
Who is Melody?
While we don’t know everything about Melody’s history, we do know she inadvertently started a fire that caused the death of her and her family. Unable to move on and cursed to stay on Earth as a spirit, she first joins forces with Garraka before helping Phoebe in her battle against the ice-ridden god.
Speaking of Phoebe, Frozen Empire seemingly implies – but doesn’t outright confirm – that the youngest Spengler child has feelings for Melody (Emily Alyn Lynd). They go unrequited, but Melody saying she’ll be part of the fabric of the universe when she does finally depart this mortal realm was a cute little moment.
What is a firemaster?
As explained by Dr. Wartzki, the firemasters are an ancestral group of warriors who are fated to protect the world from Garraka and more otherworldly threats. Nadeem’s grandmother was a feared firemaster and he, too, eventually learns the power to control fire.
In short, think Avatar: The Last Airbender’s firebenders and you’re basically on the right track.
How do they stop Garraka?
Garraka manages to showcase much of his fearsome freezing powers in the fight against the Ghostbusters, all but defeating the group by putting them (quite literally) on ice.
However, Melody lights a fire under the team by sparking a match which, in turn, Nadeem uses to set Garraka aflame. That, when coupled with the upgraded Proton Packs and the containment unit being reset, eventually leads to the ancient god being trapped under the firehouse for good. <<-- maybe not ???
‘For Ivan’, explained
The ‘For Ivan’ tribute at the very end of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is in reference to Ivan Reitman, the director of the first two Ghostbusters movies as well as a producer on Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
Reitman passed away in 2022 at the age of 75. His son, Jason Reitman, directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife and co-wrote the script for Frozen Empire.
What do the original Ghostbusters get up to?
Director Gil Kenan told SFX magazine that the returning original Ghostbusters team would be "actual characters" rather than just cameos in Frozen Empire.
True to his word, they each have slightly extended roles in the fourth movie. Most prominent of which is Winston, who is now a philanthropist and puts his money into bigger and better ghostbusting technology.
Ray Stantz, meanwhile, still owns his bookshop – and is now seemingly running a paranormal-shaped streaming channel. Bill Murray’s Peter Venkman is also back and plays a key role in defeating Garraka alongside his time – which includes a suited-up Melnitz (Annie Potts).
What happens to Phoebe?
Phoebe’s character arc forms much of the crux of Frozen Empire, with the youngest Spengler struggling to come to terms with being a child in an adult’s world. She soon forms a bond with ghost Melody, who betrays her and lets Garraka possess her.?
While those effects are only temporary, Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) ends the film with a slightly changed attitude: she’s welcomed back into the Ghostbusters fold and even calls Gary (Paul Rudd) ‘dad’.
What next for the Ghostbusters?
While there’s no talk just yet of a Ghostbusters 5, it’s clear that Trev (Finn Wolfhard) and Phoebe are positioned to be the next generation of Ghostbusters, flanked by stepdad Gary and mom Callie (Carrie Coon). If there is a follow-up, we’d expect it to once again be set in New York given the success of Frozen Empire’s return to more familiar territory. Those Mini-Pufts in the Frozen Empire post-credits scene might even have a role to play…
My 2020 [and 2026] Ghostbusters movie is partly about two real people who can talk to (but not see) an [apparently] imaginary friend.
Sort of like this new 2024 film, my plot involves connecting the imaginary friend with the real girl that needs a friend right now
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