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Columbia Pictures President Responds to Apatow ‘Ghostbusters’ Rumors
It’s amazing what happens when you have a conversation at the San Diego Comic Con. My friends and I spent a good hour talking about how cool it would be if Judd Apatow took his crew and slapped on some proton packs and started their own Ghost Busters agency. It took only a few hours for our conversation to hit the web as a FACT. Well, here we are eight months later and Columbia Pictures president Doug Belgrad has officially commented on the non-news. Read on for the skinny.
“It’s not true,” says Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures to the LA Times yesterday. “We have some great new writers working on a new script, but Judd isn’t involved. Judging from the frenzy on the Internet, there still seems to be plenty of interest in the idea of doing another film, so we’re certainly taking that as a good sign.”
What is interesting is that he reports that there are new writers on Ghostbusters 3. Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky were announced to be writing the screenplay back in September.
You can read more at the LA Times, or just watch the fan-made teaser trailer for the third film below. Happy 25th anniversary Ghost Busters!!
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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