NICK DE SEMLYEN EDITOR

SLIME CAN BRING people together. It happened when I was but knee-high to a Gozer, seeing Ghostbusters for the first time back in the ’80s. Having gone over to a friend’s house for the night, we popped in the rented VHS tape and sat back. One library ghost, two Terror Dogs, a thousand laughs and the biggest interdimensional cross-rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909 later, we exhaled; we had just seen something that would stay with us forever. Who knows how many conversations I’ve had since about those four quirky New Yorkers with unlicensed nuclear accelerators on their backs. Arguably too many, but such is the power of Ghostbusters.

And, all these years on, slime is still bringing people together. In our world-exclusive cover story, father-and-son filmmaking team Ivan and Jason Reitman chat about what the series means to them. They tease, too, what’s on the horizon: Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which brings back the original ’Busters and creates a few new ones too. Going by the fun and warmth of that interview, we’re in for a treat.

Not all of the following pages are infused with ectoplasm, which is probably for the best. Céline Sciamma gives us a filmmaking masterclass. Francis Ford Coppola shares the stories behind his two most personal movies. And Idris Elba, Regina King and the rest of the team behind The Harder They Fall

reveal how they’ve remixed the Western.

Even that’s just a fraction of it. To modify a quote by the great wraith-trapper Egon Spengler: print is far from dead.

Enjoy the issue.