Neil Casey Cast as Villain in Ghostbusters Reboot
Shooting is well under way on Paul Feig’s female-driven Ghostbusters reboot, and we’re still being hit with casting announcements left and right. Perhaps the biggest missing piece of the puzzle was the new movie’s villain, and today we’ve learned that the role has been cast.
Deadline reports that Neil Casey is set to play the reboot’s villain, the writer/actor most known for his writing contributions to shows like “Inside Amy Schumer” and “Saturday Night Live.” He currently stars in Feig’s Yahoo series “Other Space.”
Details of Casey’s character, named Rowan, are being kept under wraps. As Deadline notes, the actor does somewhat resemble Peter MacNicol, who played Dr. Janosz Poha in Ghostbusters II, though we’re fairly certain the reboot will feature all new characters.
Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones star as our new paranormal specialists with Chris Hemsworth manning their phones. Andy Garcia, Cecily Strong, and Michael Kenneth Williams fill out the cast.
Wiig and McCarthy play a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real. Flash-forward a few years and Wiig lands a prestigious teaching position at Columbia U. Which is pretty sweet, until her book resurfaces and she is laughed out of academia.
Wiig reunites with McCarthy and the other two proton pack-packing phantom wranglers, and she gets some sweet revenge when ghosts invade Manhattan and she and her team have to save the world.
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