{"id":2156933,"date":"2025-11-14T17:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2156933"},"modified":"2025-11-14T17:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:53:15","slug":"dan-aykroyd-confirms-his-1995-casper-cameo-as-ray-stantz-is-in-fact-ghostbusters-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dan-aykroyd-confirms-his-1995-casper-cameo-as-ray-stantz-is-in-fact-ghostbusters-canon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Aykroyd Confirms His 1995 Casper Cameo as Ray Stantz Is, In Fact, Ghostbusters Canon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Setting the ghostbusting record straight, once and for all, is comedy legend Dan Aykroyd, who playfully confirmed that his appearance as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/movies\/ghostbusters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ghostbusters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ghostbusters<\/a> character Ray Stantz in 1995 film <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/movies\/casper-1995\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Casper;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Casper<\/a> is, in fact, canon to the world of Ivan Reitman\u2019s 1984 classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI think so,\u201d Aykroyd said when asked if the moment was canonical during a recent interview with the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yum6IQyxDcQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Talking Strange podcast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Talking Strange podcast<\/a>. \u201cGiven the fact that Spielberg asked for me and said, \u2018Come and do this,\u2019 and that they built me in there. Of course, it\u2019s a beautiful nod to what we were doing with Ivan [Reitman] and everybody. I think you\u2019ve got to include it there in the canon. No doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fans \u2014 myself included \u2014 can breathe a sigh of relief now, knowing that Stantz did, in fact, try to bust the friendliest ghost of all, but didn\u2019t, of course, succeed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For those of you who don\u2019t remember the hilarious cameo, it goes a little something like this. Casper centers on a home called Whipstaff Manor, which is home to Casper and his three mean uncle ghosts. The house is left to a mean woman named Carrigan Crittenden, played by Cathy Moriarty, who learns that there is some kind of valuable treasure hidden somewhere in the old property \u2014 however, she has to get Casper and his uncles out of the home first. So she enlists a few folks to help her out, namely ghost therapist Dr. James Harvey (Bill Pullman), but before he comes along with his daughter Kat (Christina Ricci), Ray Stantz gives it a try.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ghostbuster, who dons an all-new mustache in the cameo, enters the building and quickly exits, but not before saying, \u201cWho ya gonna call? Someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Aykroyd is one of the four iconic Ghostbusters, which also includes Bill Murray as Peter Venkman, Harold Remis as Egon Spengler, and Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddemore. Casper stars Pullman, Moriarty, Ricci, and Devon Sawa voicing the title role (and cameoing in the final act).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ghostbusters is currently available to stream for free on The Roku Channel, and Casper can currently be found to stream via Netflix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting the ghostbusting record straight, once and for all, is comedy legend Dan Aykroyd, who playfully confirmed that his appearance as Ghostbusters character Ray Stantz in 1995 film Casper is, in fact, canon to the world of Ivan Reitman\u2019s 1984 classic. \u201cI think so,\u201d Aykroyd said when asked if the moment was canonical during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2156935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[380403,413052,368221,413051,363247,346863,413050,413049],"class_list":["post-2156933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bill-pullman","tag-casper-cameo","tag-casper-movie","tag-cathy-moriarty","tag-dan-aykroyd","tag-ghostbusters","tag-ivan-reitman","tag-ray-stantz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dan-Aykroyd-Confirms-His-1995-Casper-Cameo-as-Ray-Stantz.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156936,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156933\/revisions\/2156936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}