Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, the eldest daughter of the late Harold Ramis — Violet Ramis Stiel — talked about how Reitman brought Egon Spengler back for one last Ghostbusters adventure. Depicted as an eccentric recluse, Spengler is killed off by Gozer at the beginning of the story.
In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Harold Ramis' Egon Spengler is first seen attempting to outrun and trap Gozer in the opening sequence before ultimately being killed by an insidious mist that prompts his heart to fail.
How MPC Brought Back the Late Harold Ramis in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. MPC was entrusted with bringing the character of Dr. Egon Spengler, who had been played by the late Harold Ramis back to the big screens for Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
Being a ghost in the realm of the living could also take a certain amount of energy. Whatever spectral energy he used to make himself visible to others, interact with objects, and remain in the living world for as long as he did probably prevented him from also speaking.
Each of the original Ghostbusters had a specific skillset, although at least three of them were of the highest of intelligence. Out of those three, it was Egon Spengler who was the smartest.
In the film, it is retroactively established by Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan (with acknowledgements from two of the franchise's creators Dan Aykroyd and Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis's family as canon), that Egon fathered his daughter Callie in 1982 with someone before the events of the first film.
Egon Spengler and Dr. Ray Stantz are very important characters to me for one main reason: they are both autistic-coded. Given that both Egon and Ray are the creation of an autistic person, namely Dan Aykroyd himself, it isn't a stretch that these two characters may be an extension of his autistic traits.
Why does Egon have blonde hair in the real Ghostbusters?
The animators needed ways for the audience to visually tell the characters apart. Peter has brown hair, Ray had orange, Winston with black hair, and Egon with blonde. Same reason they had different color jumpsuits.
Why isn t Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters: Afterlife?
Moranis turned down a cameo appearance in Paul Feig's Ghostbusters, sharing that it didn't make sense to him to “do just one day of shooting” on something he did 30 years ago.
In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Egon's daughter Callie finally makes peace with her late, estranged father. He certainly wasn't the best father, abandoning his family for his work, but he did love her.
Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, and Dan Aykroyd are all part of the Afterlife cast, but fourth Ghostbuster Harold Ramis sadly passed in 2014. The new Afterlife cast also includes a Stranger Things star, the recently-crowned Sexiest Man Alive, and some brand new faces in the movie biz.
Egon's family consists of three main players in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The first is his daughter Callie. The single mother faces various hardships throughout the movie, most notably her eviction and relocation. She looks nothing like her father, so she must take after Egon's wife.
"Ghostbusters" stars Bill Murray and Harold Ramis had a friendship and relationship in comedy that went all the way back to 1970, when the two were just a pair of young comedians working in the famous Second City improvisational comedy troupe in Chicago.
Throughout most Ghostbusters media, Janine is often displayed as having a romantic attraction to Egon Spengler. This is shown in the original movie and the 2021 film Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and more prominently in The Real Ghostbusters.
Egon's daughter Callie learns by the end of Afterlife that her estranged father didn't leave his family out of selfishness; he did it to keep the forces of evil at bay, which necessitated living like a hermit next to a haunted mine.
Silja is the daughter of time-traveling Hannah Kahnwald and Egon Tiedemann, making her the half-sister of Jonas Kahnwald. She was born in the 1950s but traveled to Winden in 1911 with Hannah. However, adult Jonas sent her to the far future after killing their mother.
Doris Tiedemann was the wife of Egon Tiedemann and the mother of Claudia Tiedemann. In 1953, the Tiedemanns rented a room in their house to Agnes Nielsen and her son Tronte, who relocated to Winden for unspecified reasons, possibly due to Agnes' involvement with Sic Mundus.
On the day of the apocalypse, Hannah suffers a late-term miscarriage. Minutes before Winden is devastated, an elderly Egon Tiedemann rescues her on behalf of Erit Lux. She and Egon later have a daughter, the Silja Tiedemann of Eva's World, whose descendants become crucial to the preservation of the time loop.
