Ghostbusters 3

[JDFP]

So is it, or is it not, ever going to happen? Sorry, no news updates here (as of yet), but please feel free to post your speculations, complaints, whining, and just general good frolicking in the woods comments below. Personally, I'd love to see a sequel if giving the proper respect to the original two. Then again, in today's time and age it would probably be butchered by petty bullshit CGI (of course, you all know my feelings towards CGI, and if you don't I'll sum it up by this -- I despise it) and silliness like crotch jokes as opposed to attempting to tell a good story. Ultimately, I hear it's up to Bill Murray. And Bill, "Lost In Translation" and "Broken Flowers" were both beautiful and excellent films, but c'mon man, get with Sigourney Weaver who I hear would love to do it and bring Rick Moranis out of retirement and bring back Annie Potts ('cause face it, what the hell else does she have going on?) with the rest of the cast and tell the damn story. If it doesn't happen the next few years, I'll make a prediction it will never happen. And I'll be the first to state you're damn right I'll boycott any "Ghostbusters" REMAKE as absolute bullshit mockery. To hell with a "remake", I would absolutely refuse to watch it unconditionally, I want a sequel damnit! j.p.

[rongravy]

I listened to a call in by Bill to Howard Stern the other day, not sure how old it was. Bill said the script was laying on his desk, and he wasn't in a hurry to read it. I'd like to see another movie, but I don't want them passing off the torch to the next generation of Ghost Bustin' doods. Maybe if they did like Indy 4 and at the end they were like, "Nahhhhh, we're keeping the suits!!!" I heard at one time it was going to be an animated thangie. Glad they aren't doing that anymore at least.

[Danny]

eh, i played the game on the xbox from last year, thats good enough. i dont really expect gold if they make a 3rd. infact i predict something worse than evolution.

[bassman]

Yeah, it's all waiting on Murray. He's repeatedly lashed out against a third film, but also said that he feels like he owes it to Reitman for getting his film career started. He also said voicing the video game reminded him how much he loved the character and is now open to the idea. He just doesn't want it to be another Ghostbusters 2, which he hates. This is a really great article covering the creation process and "failure" of Ghostbusters 2: http://icantgetlaidinthistown.blogsp...d-million.html And don't kid yourself with the "remake" thing. Ghostbusters 3 has always essentially been a reboot. It will have the original guys, but the entire purpose of the idea is to introduce a new group of comedians to carry the potential franchise into the future. I also agree with Danny. The video game is the third movie. Go play it and you've got a pretty good trilogy on your hands.

[ProfessorChaos]

here we go again: http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08...on/?hpt=hp_bn5

[AcesandEights]

Maybe if they did like Indy 4... Please, no. Indy IV had a beginning, middle and end....that's about as close as I'd want a 3rd GB film to get to following its lead.

[Neil]

More talk but seemingly still no progress... http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Dan-A...s-3-29411.html Aykroyd suggested to Empire that they could bring in another actor to play Venkman. He also said there's still more work to do on the script, so it doesn't seem like they've made any actual progress in the last, oh, three years or so. But none of that has ever stopped Aykroyd from plugging the movie that doesn't seem to be at all close to existing, even though, after taking a role in the Will Ferrell- Zach Galifianakis comedy Dog Fight, he's got a real film to work on. Akyroyd denied the recent, hilarious rumor that Murray had sent him back a copy of the new script after passing it through the shredder, but that's the version of things I'll continue to believe-- the script in tatters, and the almighty fury of Bill Murray preventing the movie from ever, ever happening.

[Danny]

i read on some sites lists of rumoured replacements akaroyd thought about 'just in case', and in a sea of seth rogan a likes jim carrey was the only competant actor who could pull pete venkman off other than bill himself, of course.

[bassman]

Murray should use GB3 as a way to secure funding for whatever personal projects he wants to make. The entire reason he did the first film is because they agreed to fund his pet project, Razor's Edge. So he's actually never had much faith in the franchise, even from the start...

[AcesandEights]

The unfortunate thing is, something like this could work and work well. The upshot is, given it's a return to an old and geek-honored IP, it probably wouldn't get the care and tender hand it would need from conception through scripting to directing, and would be more likely to suck than to kick ass. And any GB follow up at this point should kick total ass, or just not be made.

[Danny]

And any GB follow up at this point should kick total ass, or just not be made. tell that to ghostbusters 2...

[AcesandEights]

tell that to ghostbusters 2... I was going to say the same thing--have said it before--but didn't want to go there

[Danny]

I was going to say the same thing--have said it before--but didn't want to go there why not? looking back on it without nostalgia ghostbusters 2 is as bad as the first is good. the slime gets more screen time than the ghostbusters, they use the power of good cheer to save the day, the token black guy- with certainly more acting ability than egon gets barely any lines or screentime and the whole movie is basic fanservice as its worst. i love the ghostbusters. i do NOT love ghostbusters 2, frankly the game was a better sequel.

[bassman]

Ghostbusters 2 isn't so bad. Sure it's a bit of a rehash and doesn't have the same spark as the original, but it's still got some classic jokes.

[AcesandEights]

why not? I got the hounds released on me last time But, yes, I agree with you, a poor follow up of a film that doesn't stand very well on its own and fails pretty hard to even be propped up by its association with its classic predecessor.