Who you gonna call? Columbia Pictures has apparently heard the fans call for a third film in the horror-comedy franchise GHOSTBUSTERS as they have finally, finally set the long-gestured sequel in motion. Even though a script is being written with the intent of bringing back all four original busters, the article reports that reaching an agreement is still going to be a factor. Read on for the story and watch for updates as soon as a draft of the screenplay is delivered.
Columbia Pictures is getting serious about scaring up a new installment of its blockbuster "Ghostbusters" franchise.
The studio has set "The Office" co-exec producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to write a script for a film designed to bring back together the original cast of Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson.
Studio would not comment on the development and has been mum on recent rumors that there was interest in making another installment of the franchise.
The scribes just wrote "Year One," a comedy that was directed by Ramis. Ramis with Aykroyd wrote the first two installments of the films. Ivan Reitman directed both the 1984 original and the sequel that was released in 1989. The close proximity between the writers and original Ghostbuster Ramis is evidence that the ghost chasers have sparked to the idea of returning.
"Ghostbusters" was Columbia's highest grossing film ever, until it was beaten by "Men in Black" and then "Spider-Man." An attempt to make a third installment of the franchise was stymied in the dealmaking stage. Sources said so much gross was pledged to the participants that it was next to impossible for the studio to make any money on a third installment.
No deals will be made with the original cast until the script is ready, but the gross percentage will certainly be an issue. Sony has a standing policy not to allow more than 25% of first dollar gross out the door.
The scribes, who are Emmy- nominated for their work on "The Office," just set up another picture at Columbia, selling their spec script "Bad Teacher" to the studio for Jimmy Miller to produce.
makes Ryan Rotten look like a fool for his earlier comments tonight about nothing "legit" going on to report, I like the guy but he has egg on his face now.
This is amazing, in fact I don't even believe it. If this is truly happening... then I'm going to need some time to recover from my initial shock... This is just as bewildering and shocking as when "Indian Jones IV" was announced.
BEST NEWS EVER!!!!Finally some good old fashioned fun! I hope IF they indeed decide/manage to go for the original cast that they will also convince Sigourney Weaver to come back!
This is good news and all, but I can't help but notice that most of these guys have not aged very well, especially Ramis. I wonder if it can be pulled off without it looking more like HIPbusters.
sorry about the ghostbuster games but it's going to be a lot longer for it to come out after what happened. All I can say is BLIZZERED DROPED THE BALL. http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/3723.html
It sounds like their not going to go with Akroyds original idea, which was a fully CGI take. But would be cool if they still used the original style of animatronics with limited full on CGI...other than the proton beams, that could steer clear from the old drawings.
Excited to hear!
Keep it simple. Do we really need to save the whole world? Make sure the monsters are real threats like the first movie. The second one missed the mark as far as monster design, too silly. The monsters must be real in order for the comedy to work. www.impfx.com
who cares about Weaver or Moranis...
if you dont have AT LEAST bill murray, aykroyd & ramis it's not worth watchinig, yeah i didnt forget ernie hudson, but let's face it, ernie hudson needs this film as bad as a crackhead needs crack...
let's go with ghost busters III....i think they should get some GOOD actors to play some of the guys' kids or even that "Oscar" kid from part 2 could be grown up and they want to show him the ropes and they are preparing to retire and pass down their business to their children or whoever, but if they dont acknowledge and make fun of their age & weight it would be stupid...you gotta throw in humor on that or it wont work, these guys still bustin ghosts while being extremely overweight (like ramis) would be hard to comprehend, make a good script, satisfying fans of the originals, but also modern-izing it a bit but with good taste, smart humor, careful special effects where it's nothing wayyyyy too crazy fake looking...done right, this can be quite a fucking cool picture to look forward to...
It would be nice to have Morranis back for sure.
Don't care too much about Weaver, or even Murray for that matter. If he wasn't a greedy swine I think this movie would have already happened and Ramis would not have been so bloated in real life.
Murray is Murray. Greedy and ultimately a useless character...especially compared to Egon, Winston and Ray.
This has the potential of being great, really. I loved the first two but at the same time I know people are going to cry foul when it's released. Why? Because of nostalgic bias and how the 3rd entry won't live up to the previous films. (in their minds anyway...)
The same thing kinda happened with the 4th Indiana Jones movie.
I would love to see the old cast back. But I wonder if Bill Murray would be willing? Last I heard didnt Rich Moranis stop acting to spend more time with his kids after his wife past away? I really loved the first 2 movies. One more than two of course! Well we shall see what happens I guess?
This is the best thing that has happened to me this year and i am getting married on sunday, So you know this news is big if its taking the place of my wedding!
To bad the video game is pretty much cancelled.I was waiting to see a late april fools joke tag line there,but nope,looks real.But really,this probably won't happen.To be honest,ramis doesn't look the same at all if murray dys his hair he would pretty much look the way he did back in part 1-2.This also needs to be live action and not some cgi movie either.Theres to many issues with everyone and everything to get this movie going now.Probably won't ever happen but I guess heres hoping :-)
And to those wondering,I am indeed a huge GB fan but I just have my doubts about this and wish they wouldn't have announced anything until they had deals with everyone and they were all on board.
check out these pictures of seth rogen and co as the new ghostbusters somebody did
they look awesome!
http://smalltownhero.deviantart.com/art/Ghostbu sters-3-97549011
http://dr-gore.deviantart.com/art/Who-y a-gonna-call-97551025
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