Casper

And it's like a friendly ghost.

Like, I describe it as like It's like Casper the Friendly Ghost, but not Casper.

It's like when Christina Ricci's dead mom shows up at the end.

It's like that.

Like Christina Ricci's dead mom in Casper the Friendly Ghost when she comes down as like an angel who's wearing like red or something.

Like that is doppelganger to me.

I don't know why.

What do you think is the most popular Cathy Moriarty movie on Letterboxd?

Casper.

Nope, that's number three.

Ah.

Yeah

... where it's like...

And, and I love Casper and she's great in it.

I mean, is it sad that I think of Cathy Moriarty and that's the first thing I picture is Casper?

Everybody's in.

Right? So on May 26th, it comes out with Casper.

Yes.

Yeah.

Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Kathy Moriarty, Eric Idle.

And it's funny because this movie is like a $55 million movie that made almost $300 million.

I was thinking about this because Casper was big at one point, you know, cartoon-wise and things like that.

I wonder how, you know, you kind of wonder what it would have done today.

She'd rejoined the group shortly after this appearance by her bandmates.

The choreography for this sequence and the rest of the film was done by Adam Schenkman, a position he also held on such films as Adam's Family Values, Don Juan DeMarco, Casper, Congo, Tank Girl, George of the Jungle, Boogie Nights, Ants, Scream 2, Inspector Gadget, and more.

By the 2000s, he'd step into the director's chair and would helm such films as A Walk to Remember and the 2007 musical version of John Waters' Hairspray, to name just two.

A big challenge to making a Flintstones movie is sifting through all of the creative output released under that banner and hitting the best possible approach to that material.

Wait a minute.

In Casper, don't the three ghosts, they're eating and it's falling through them, but they're still like eating it, right? Doesn't that happen?

Hmm.

They're like gooey, kind of, right?

What's

a

Casper? What's Casper's deal? That's what I mean.

He's a friendly ghost, so they get to have their own name.

One of the most recognizable pop culture icons of the 20th century, honestly.

Casper the friendly ghost.

Now, on the surface, if you just catch that headline scrolling past your newsfeed, you probably

probably roll your eyes.

This single project serves as a flawless microcosm for the current state of the entertainment industry in 2026.

Everything from cutthroat corporate strategy to the complex psychology of modern audiences is wrapped up in the translucent shell of this little ghost.

So even if you haven't given Casper a single thought since you were eating sugary cereal in your pajamas on a Saturday morning in the 90s, you really need to hear this.

Because this story is a masterclass in how modern nostalgia is engineered, packaged, and ultimately sold to you.

Because as soon as he did Mad Max, 1987 came Lethal Weapon, Tequila Sunrise, Lethal Weapon 2, Burn on a Wire, Air America, Hamlet, Lethal Weapon 3, just on and on and on.

Maverick, you know, Casper, wait, Casper? I

don't remember him being a Casper.

Yeah.

Anyways.