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How 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' pulled off its tribute to Harold Ramis

Going way back when he was an impressionable 6-year-old visiting the set of his father Ivan's 1984 smash "Ghostbusters," Jason Reitman's favorite member of the team of proton-pack-wielding specter-catchers was always Egon Spengler.

So when Reitman decided three years ago to pick up the torch of the beloved franchise, he knew that he wanted to pay loving tribute to the man who had brought the bespectacled, socially awkward Egon to life: comedy

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