Ghostbusters 3 back in development hell?

[Admiral_Young]

I thought I had read an interview from Ackroyd that there wouldn't be a sequel to the video game? Regarding Ghostbusters...a part of me seems bizarrely attracted to the premise of a remake. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's just the part that is fed up with the hold up regarding a third movie. I would have been opposed to this even a couple years ago but I just don't think we'll get the kind of sequel fans are expecting to see.

 

[Rett Mikhal]

I've always imagined Ghostbusters III as Aykryod's original 100 page treatment, with the Ghostbusters in the future as a franchise all over the world fighting an all-out war on Ghosts. That would be awesome.

You could still have the original Ghostbusters as descendants or relatives or something along those lines. Could even make them all CGI so they look younger. Who cares, a Ghost War movie would be amazing and I want to see a flying Ecto-1.

 

[Timby]

I've always imagined Ghostbusters III as Aykryod's original 100 page treatment, with the Ghostbusters in the future as a franchise all over the world fighting an all-out war on Ghosts. That would be awesome.

You could still have the original Ghostbusters as descendants or relatives or something along those lines. Could even make them all CGI so they look younger. Who cares, a Ghost War movie would be amazing and I want to see a flying Ecto-1.

Good God, no. I'd sooner claw my eyes out with a spoon than see something like that.

Ghostbusters isn't an action-adventure movie with some bits of comic relief here and there. It works because it is an utterly hilarious comedy about three Ph.D's who get this goofy idea that they can actually catch and imprison ghosts. The plot exists solely to provide a three-act structure and serve as a vehicle for jokes.

A "Ghost War," a flying Ecto-1, amping up the action levels ... all that would serve to do is take the mistakes of Ghostbusters II and multiply them tenfold. The reason the sequel isn't as good is because it isn't very funny. What you want to see sounds like the Terminator Future War with Ghostbusters technology, and that ... no. No, I'm sorry.

Pistols at dawn.

I thought I had read an interview from Ackroyd that there wouldn't be a sequel to the video game?

As I said, it's pretty unlikely that there will be a sequel, given the difficulty in getting all the parties back together again. The only press I've seen from Aykroyd regarding The Video Game, though, has been the initial interview in the Game Informer cover story a few years ago that broke the news on the game's existence, and the New York Times interview with him and Harold Ramis shortly after the game was released (in which they said "no, we didn't write it, we just touched up the script for a day"). It's entirely possible that I've missed something, though.

Not terribly likely, mind you, but possible.

 

[Rett Mikhal]

The television show had decent action for its time and could still dish out jokes. Get J. Michael Straczynski to write it, he never disappoints. Remember the hour long episode, The Halloween Door, when the world basically got taken over by Ghosts? How awe stricken were you when you first saw that (if you did)? Plus it still had good jokes, even if most of the voice cast had been horribly miscast by the studio at that point trying to make it more kid friendly, since Janine's voice apparently scared children but face melting demons didn't.

I didn't think Ghostbusters II tried too hard to be an action movie since it had roughly the same amount of busting scenes and special effects scenes (most of it was slime). I think the opposite, some of the jokes tried too hard, whereas in the first one no one really knew how audiences would react so they just ran with it and ad-libbed. One of my favorite scenes is when Egon starts calculating and Peter slaps it out of his hands. "STOP THAT!" (Calculator hits the ground). Very clearly done spur of the moment but so hilarious and well timed BECAUSE of that.

I think the boys in gray wouldn't have that same amateurish touch anymore. Experience kind of works against them.

 

[warriorsfan]

I posted this somewhere else before, but you just know the studio doesn't want to make an expensive Ghostbusters 3 with Murray, Ramis, Hudson and Aykroyd when they can just reboot and make a cheaper, younger, hipper Ghosbusters 1 with Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogan and Megan Fox.

I doubt Ernie Hudson and Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd will demand paychecks anywhere NEAR what Michael Cera, Seth Rogan and Megan Fox would demand to do a movie in 2010. The latter three are at their height of popularity and are highly in demand as actors. The former three? Not so much anymore.

Ernie Hudson will probably do it for minimum wage and Craft Food Service privileges.