GHOSTBUSTERS 3 shooting this fall?!?!?!?

[The Nth Doctor]

Well Bill Murry, Harold Ramis and Dan Ackroyd aren't getting any younger, so if they want to do another GB movie, they better do it soon.

So Ernie Hudson is getting younger? Lucky bastard!

 

[JPRyan]

If SAG fails to sign a contract in the next couple of months don't expect to see any feature productions to start up this year. Preproduction is usually 3 to 4 months and that woulds put start up in the fall of 09. Most productions do not start close to the holidays for weather and scheduleing reasons.

 

[Timby]

"Well, Bill, last time you played a wacky out of work cab driver who joins the Army. But *this* time you're playing a wacky out of work college professor who chases ghosts!"

I don't care if Murray had been playing the same character. Despite the strength of Harold Ramis' rewrite of Aykroyd's script, Ghostbusters would have been a mediocre-at-best comedy (and that's what it is, a comedy, not a sci-fi film) were it not for Murray's incredible improvisational skills.

 

[Nick Ryder]

That's why I really hope they try and NOT script some of the internal dialogue and just see what sticks improv usually produces better stuff than scripted jokes or comments. Plus all of the FOUR GBs (yeah I forgot Winston, bite me) are pretty good improv comedians. And if they find a few other 'young guns' that have a similar work ethic, could be good.

I'm hopeful, I've been waiting for GB3 since GB2

 

[Captain Craig]

MTV News sat down with Harold Ramis to discuss his newest directorial effort Year One. In doing so they also discussed the still scheduled to shoot int he fall Ghostbusters 3.

But we also asked Ramis — who co-wrote the first two "Ghostbusters" movies and, of course, starred in them as uptight-but-lovable Dr. Egon Spengler — to dish details on the upcoming reboot.
Ramis promised that all the old core players will take part in the updated version, including Bill Murray (Dr. Peter Venkman) and Dan Aykroyd (Dr. Raymond Stantz), who co-wrote the original films. "We're all going to be in it in different kinds of roles," Ramis said. "We're going to be the sage mentors. There are going to be young Ghostbusters."
As of now, no decisions have been made about just who those new Ghostbusters will be. But with Judd Apatow signed on as a producer, the Internet has been buzzing with gossip that comedians from his cinematic universe, such as Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen, will join in.

I find it interesting that this writer used the word REBOOT. I think its being used wrongly. All discussion seems to indicate its a continuation in the same way Die Hard 4 and Indy 4 were continuations of those franchises, despite the lengthy gap between installments.

There is more in the link, I just pulled out the first bit.
Enjoy, discuss.

 

[Gojirob]

I have a feeling the movie will be like Indy 4 where we lose that "edge" and it will be more family friendly.

Actually Ghostbusters 2 already did that.

I always thought a good GB3 would be 'The Lovecraft Blues', and feature an adaptation of sorts of the RGB Old Ones Story Arc.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

MTV News sat down with Harold Ramis to discuss his newest directorial effort Year One. In doing so they also discussed the still scheduled to shoot int he fall Ghostbusters 3.

But we also asked Ramis — who co-wrote the first two "Ghostbusters" movies and, of course, starred in them as uptight-but-lovable Dr. Egon Spengler — to dish details on the upcoming reboot.
Ramis promised that all the old core players will take part in the updated version, including Bill Murray (Dr. Peter Venkman) and Dan Aykroyd (Dr. Raymond Stantz), who co-wrote the original films. "We're all going to be in it in different kinds of roles," Ramis said. "We're going to be the sage mentors. There are going to be young Ghostbusters."
As of now, no decisions have been made about just who those new Ghostbusters will be. But with Judd Apatow signed on as a producer, the Internet has been buzzing with gossip that comedians from his cinematic universe, such as Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen, will join in.

I find it interesting that this writer used the word REBOOT. I think its being used wrongly. All discussion seems to indicate its a continuation in the same way Die Hard 4 and Indy 4 were continuations of those franchises, despite the lengthy gap between installments.

There is more in the link, I just pulled out the first bit.
Enjoy, discuss.

Sounds like a Live Action version of Extreme Ghostbusters...

 

[Piper]

MTV News sat down with Harold Ramis to discuss his newest directorial effort Year One. In doing so they also discussed the still scheduled to shoot int he fall Ghostbusters 3.

But we also asked Ramis — who co-wrote the first two "Ghostbusters" movies and, of course, starred in them as uptight-but-lovable Dr. Egon Spengler — to dish details on the upcoming reboot.
Ramis promised that all the old core players will take part in the updated version, including Bill Murray (Dr. Peter Venkman) and Dan Aykroyd (Dr. Raymond Stantz), who co-wrote the original films. "We're all going to be in it in different kinds of roles," Ramis said. "We're going to be the sage mentors. There are going to be young Ghostbusters."
As of now, no decisions have been made about just who those new Ghostbusters will be. But with Judd Apatow signed on as a producer, the Internet has been buzzing with gossip that comedians from his cinematic universe, such as Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen, will join in.

I find it interesting that this writer used the word REBOOT. I think its being used wrongly. All discussion seems to indicate its a continuation in the same way Die Hard 4 and Indy 4 were continuations of those franchises, despite the lengthy gap between installments.

There is more in the link, I just pulled out the first bit.
Enjoy, discuss.

Sounds like a Live Action version of Extreme Ghostbusters...

Ugh let's hope not, the one good episode of that show was when the original guys came back to show the young 'uns how it was done properly!

 

[tharpdevenport]

It's nto a reboot if it's the same actors playing hte same characters just further down the timeline. It's more of a continuation. The upcoming crapfest of a "Star Trek" movie is a reboot, or maybe "re-visioning" is a better word (no, it doesn't count if Nemoy plays Spock briefly).

 

[Captain Craig]

The upcoming crapfest of a "Star Trek" movie is a reboot, or maybe "re-visioning" is a better word (no, it doesn't count if Nemoy plays Spock briefly).

Bulls**t. It is in my book. Any actor playing the same role = continuation. The rest is reimagined out of necessity. Abrams can say otherwise, needs to really, to convince the masses this ain't the stigmatic Trek of old, but it is. It just has a fresh paint job.

As to GB it does sound like Extreme GB. Which wasn't that bad a toon really.

 

[SinglePurpose]

The upcoming crapfest of a "Star Trek" movie is a reboot, or maybe "re-visioning" is a better word (no, it doesn't count if Nemoy plays Spock briefly).

Bulls**t. It is in my book. Any actor playing the same role = continuation. The rest is reimagined out of necessity. Abrams can say otherwise, needs to really, to convince the masses this ain't the stigmatic Trek of old, but it is. It just has a fresh paint job.

As to GB it does sound like Extreme GB. Which wasn't that bad a toon really.

The James Bond movies are clearly rebooted every so often even if they keep around some faces like Q and M.

 

[Aragorn]

If they're bringing in actors from Team Judd Apatow, I say go with Paul Rudd and Elizabeth Banks as two of the new Ghosbusters.

 

[Captain Craig]

The upcoming crapfest of a "Star Trek" movie is a reboot, or maybe "re-visioning" is a better word (no, it doesn't count if Nemoy plays Spock briefly).

Bulls**t. It is in my book. Any actor playing the same role = continuation. The rest is reimagined out of necessity. Abrams can say otherwise, needs to really, to convince the masses this ain't the stigmatic Trek of old, but it is. It just has a fresh paint job.

As to GB it does sound like Extreme GB. Which wasn't that bad a toon really.

The James Bond movies are clearly rebooted every so often even if they keep around some faces like Q and M.

Clearly as in a new face for Bond, yes.
However, the continuity of the character is the same.
Its why every Bond after Lazenby lamented the loss of "his" wife. Cause it was fictionally the same character. Carry overs for Felix Leiter as well.

Not a good parallel or counter point but good try.

 

[Trekker4747]

I actually kind-of liked Extreme Ghostbusters.

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

I find it interesting that this writer used the word REBOOT. I think its being used wrongly.

I would not say it is being used wrongly. I would just say that the rest of the world has a much less specific definition of "reboot" than we internet fans do.

 

[Data Holmes]

It doesn't give an answer to the only important question.

Assuming it actually does get made (big assumption), is Bill Murray in it?

From what I've read, Bill Murray will be in it. After working on the video game, he got so jazzed/nostalgic that he finally agreed to it. He also said that the 1st Ghostbusters movie is the best thing he's ever been in.

Personally, I'm still very skeptical. A fall production date is still very far away. From what I gather, they haven't even finished the script yet. What if, this summer, they finish the script and it's shite? You see what I mean?

Bill Murray is the one who caused two other projects to be shelved in the past for a GB3. The rights to the film franchise are apparently split four ways evenly between Murry, Aykroyd, Ramis, and the Studio.

Anything dealing with is has to be green lit by all four in order to legally allowed to proceed. Murry withheld his ok on the past two scripts because he felt that they weren't up to par with the first movie, something he felt about the second one and was rather unhappy with after it was done.

He was quoted once as saying he didn't think there were any GB tales left to be told, that could be told in the same way that the first movie did, with out it getting hijacked and turned into a bunch of one liners and over done special effects glitz used to sell toys and other tie ins.

It was working on the game which showed him that with the right story there was more that could be done.

And I think Ramis's connection into the Apatow group, one which has been held up as a new version of the GB guys from back in the day (Aykroyd, Murry, Ramis, Murphey, Candy, Moranis, Chase) and the Apatow groups awe and esteme they hold these guys in which has helped move this foward, and helped soften Murry's position on it.

I dunno, I wouldn't be surprised if the prospect of Ghostbusters 3 lured Moranis back to show biz for a little while, at least for a small role.

I saw it mentioned in a blurb on the game that he and Weaver were the only ones not to reprise their charecters, and that his reason was that he wasn't going to come out of retirement for "just a game". Perhaps a movie might be enough to pull him out, even if it's just a cameo.