Ghostbusters 3?

[dmario]

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=7608


Columbia Hires Ghostbusters 3 Scribes
Source:Variety
September 4, 2008


In the wake of Ghostbuster 3 rumors with Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow attached, Columbia Pictures announced today that they have enlisted Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (exec producers on The Office) to write the next installment.

The plan is to whip up a new supernatural adventure roping together original Ghostbusters Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson.

According to Variety, Eisenberg and Stupnitsky penned Harold Rami's latest comedy Year One. Ramis with Aykroyd wrote the first two installments of the Ghostbusters films.

The trade was keen to note that original cast members are not officially locked until a script has been turned in and salaries are discussed. No word yet on whether director Ivan Reitman will come back.

[lost-spartan]

If everybody came back including Reitman, I'd see it for sure. I could care less Rogen and Apatow were involved, I just don't want to see Rogen show up in it playing the new slacker pothead ghostbuster.

[Johnny Blaque]

But Ghostbuster's the videogame will be part 3!

Also, Murray specifically said he didn't want to play a live action Ghostbuster anymore.

[Wingfan]

Wow, I dunno what to think about this. I mean I LOOOOOOVE Ghostbusters, but those guys are all getting up there and don't really have the look or moves anymore (well maybe Hudson does, he still looks to be in shape). And Aykroyd said the new video game for intents and purposes was written by him and Ramis to be the 3rd movie, so I dunno what else is left.

If they did a new movie and set it during 2010 or whatever, I'm sure it'd be a passing of the torch type thing for a new younger generation.

[Johnny Blaque]

If they did a new movie and set it during 2010 or whatever, I'm sure it'd be a passing of the torch type thing for a new younger generation.

Screw that. They just need to make another Evolution movie before Ducovney(sp?) gets too old!

[lost-spartan]

Screw that. They just need to make another Evolution movie before Ducovney(sp?) gets too old!

He's too busy looking at porn. :I

[Craig DeBoard]

But Ghostbuster's the videogame will be part 3!

Also, Murray specifically said he didn't want to play a live action Ghostbuster anymore.

Yeah but you know the old saying, "money talks".

By the way me and the wife just saw Get Smart the other night. We were wondering was the Bill Murray as the agent inside of the tree, in that? Anyone know?

[The unknown artist]

Yeah that was Bill Murray.

[weirdozhead]

lol yeah that was bill murray, and agree seth rogen isn't half the stoner bill murray is, and never will be ;)

[WillTurner]

I like Seth Rogen, but he often seems to be the leading man playing off funnier support, so not sure where he'd come in here.
Apart from maybe as a ghost, which could be a joke in and of itself.
Seriously though, I doubt it. I know we had Die Hard 4 and the new Rocky and Rambo, but I think we can stop repeating the eighties now.

[Inkthinker]

Ahhhhh... I dunno. I'm psyched for the game, with all the original cast returning to their roles in that, but a new live-action movie? Doesn't sound so hot to me.

[JPJ]

I just want Ghostbusters.

[weirdozhead]

me too.. i know it'd get a lot of hate but maybe they should get jack black and mos def up on it, that was the only good part of be kind rewind

[KRAZYRICKY1]

me too.. i know it'd get a lot of hate but maybe they should get jack black and mos def up on it, that was the only good part of be kind rewind

sounds good to me,
and have the original cast training the new crew for a major ghost invasion that the old guys couldn;t handle since they're so old, and haven't had to work in the field for several years due to them ridding the earth of all ghost.

[JPJ]

I agree. As much as I LOVE the original Ghostbusters, I'd rather see a next generation Ghostbusters being trained by the original.

It would probably never top the original movie. It may never top the second movie, even. I just want to see some sort of Ghostbusters on the big screen.




Of course they'll end up making that movie and it will tank and then they'll reboot the franchise a la Superman Returns.

[xadrian]

It just won't happen. Murray won't want to come back and ruin any weird indie cred he's been building doing oddball thinker movies and affable cameos in small comedies. Ramis and Akroyd have hardly done anything BUT Ghostbusters. Moranis has retired from film making and is now doing comedy country music (ya rly). Hudson and Weaver have been been busy. Annie Potts is teaching drama.

The video game as Act Three is like having the video game be Tron 2. It just didn't work that well. Same universe, same schtick, but it's never the same. Why do it more? Do some cartoons, some comics, that's alright. Don't bring these old fat guys back, it's going to make us all misty-eyed and depressed that what we loved can never be remade properly...again...again...again.

Son of Last Starfighter anyone? I mean really...


I agree. As much as I LOVE the original Ghostbusters, I'd rather see a next generation Ghostbusters being trained by the original.


I got one name for you, Mutt Williams.

[FIG]

Just give me the game, someone publish the damn thing. Part 3? Not so sure with a new cast.

[Teratophile]

They should do ghostbusters meet bubba hotep. all the ghostbusters in a nursing home versus bruce campbell.

[WillTurner]

Ramis has done well to get in with Apatow, so he won't be starving any time soon, while Akroyd is with the SNL lot (like the unions, they look after their own!)

[Chris Major]

The first decade of the 21st century will forever be known as the "we couldn't come up with anything fresh so we aped the 70s and 80s" decade. And 8 years so far into that decade, it's getting really tedious. The "next generation" angle only ever worked for Star Trek; just look at Shaft and Charlie's Angels and there's my point right there.

I love the Ghostbusters, but I'd rather love my memories than see them overtaken by my hate of the present's bastardization of the past.

Besides, Seth Rogen gets on my nerves.

[lost-spartan]

Straight from Ramis;


yes, columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my year one writing partners, gene stupnitsky and lee eisenberg. judd apatow is co-producing year one and has made several other films for sony, so of course the studio is hoping to tap into some of the same acting talent. aykroyd, ivan reitman and i are consulting at this point, and according to dan, bill murray is willing to be involved on some level. he did record his dialogue for the new ghostbusters video game, as did danny and i, and ernie hudson. the concept is that the old ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity. not much else to say at this point. everyone is confident a decent script can be written and i guess we'll take it from there.
best,
harold



Uggh....why bother if it's only gonna be "here's the fire house, the proton packs, remember don't cross the streams unless you're all about to die. Oh, and here's the rest of the movie see ya later."

Hopefully the VG is f*cking killer and really delivers as a sequel to the flicks.

[WillTurner]

This is a coward's remake.

[Chris Major]

This is a coward's remake.

Amen.

I'd also say, a greedy coward's remake. Can you smell the money?

[xadrian]

"Mentor capacity" which means there's gonna be newbies. There will be a Pakistani guy who was a student of Egon's, a Jewish kid who's working off a university suspension by doing intern work with Ray at his occult book store/online business, and a hot Latino girl fresh in from Texas who wants to study parapsychology and Peter won't be able to stop making dirty old man jokes. The group will be dogged by the nerdy white kid from the Bronx who upgrades the Firehouse with all the latest technowizardry.

After assembling the team, the old guys make like ghosts themselves and the story moves into top level busting. Gozer the Gozerian is back seeking to exact revenge on the team and the new kids get their shot at saving the city.

In all seriousness, something like this COULD work if they accept that it's a new story and we don't need to see rahashes of Slimer or the Staypuff Marshmellow man.

[weirdozhead]

i'm not expecting the best but certainly interested in seeing if they can pull it off.. if so - the start of a rekindled franchise, if not it's just one more disc you never have to put in your collection

[WillTurner]

I don't know, some things are just of their time, y'know? There was a rumour ages ago of a Back To The Future 4 with Sarah Michelle Gellar as the Doc's sister with a McFly family member in an obligatory cameo (seriously, a cameo from the original is not a stamp of approval!)
My personal instinct is some things are best left alone. Frankly, I'm not that big a fan of Ghostbusters 2.

[jharker]

I think Ghostbusters has a concept that lends itself more to continuing stories than Back to the future.
If they keep the proton packs, the ecto-1 and have an interesting story with cool monsters, then I honestly don't care who's doing the busting as long as they're fun characters.

The core of Back to the future however was the life of Marty McFly. It wouldn't be the same without him. The third movie kinda strayed from Marty's life, and that why it wasn't as good as the other two.

[Chris Major]

Xadrian's synopsis kicks ass, because it's all *too* plausible.

[WillTurner]

Honestly I hope it does work (I must admit I did enjoy Extreme Ghostbusters!)
However, my feeling is not so much this being done out of love than off the back of several other money making comebacks.

[lost-spartan]

Looks like even Bill Murray is down for Ghostbusters: TNG.


But tonight he said that he knew "some writers from THE OFFICE" were taking a stab at the script right now (which we already knew) and that he thinks that's a good start. He paused for a few seconds then said that he thinks enough time has passed and that "the wounds from GHOSTBUSTERS 2 are healed" and that he would definitely be into doing another GHOSTBUSTERS movie, stating that the first 40 minutes of the original film is some of the best stuff he's been associated with and the whole shoot was an amazing amount of fun.

full article (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38496)

[WillTurner]

I suppose he's basically making sure he's not the "diva" that he's sometimes painted out to be like he's too "serious" for the role.
What worries me is how, like Watchmen, the projects have been in development for years. A couple of young bucks come in, make a lot of money, suddenly everything's good to go. It just seems a bit join the dots to me.

[weirdozhead]

nothin's good to go it'd prob be 2010/2011 at the earliest if it even gets off the ground

[WillTurner]

True, but getting a draft from writers is a big step from "it's not going to happen".

[Wingfan]

The fact Bill Murray said this gives me hope

http://kotaku.com/5058710/ghostbusters-game-puts-a-song-in-bill-murrays-heart

[FIG]

I really want to see the game and if the original cast makes it into the next movie as mentors, well sweet. I want that too. If it has their blessing then bring it on and make new Ghostbusters.

[JPS017]

I'm using this thread for some of the latest news on GB3 (I didn't start a new thread to avoid getting in trouble):

http://www.avclub.com/articles/bill-murray-talks-ghostbusters-3-remains-fuzzy-on,40562/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcJPBVW-iiM&feature=player_embedded

Murray keeps changing his mind, but at least he is pushing them to write something decent before he commits.

Please, please, let's not ruin the Ghostbusters legacy.