Comments on: Ghostbusters 3 hires screenwriter, but Will Bill?

By: John Ohno

John Ohno — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:35:00 +0000

To be fair, the first Ghostbusters movie was good in part because everyone involved was only half-humoring Ackroyd. It wasn’t intended to be a comedy; everyone but Ackroyd was adlibbing the funny bits.

By: jhertzli

jhertzli — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 06:01:00 +0000

The first two Ghostbusters movies were partly based on “The Dunwich Horror” and “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.” Is “The Call of Cthulhu” next?

By: francoisroux

francoisroux — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:45:00 +0000

Having been killed in Zombieland, is he not already a ghost?

By: JaiGuru

JaiGuru — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 05:59:00 +0000

Eh, so long as you keep turkey jowl Lucas away from it, I don’t think that’ll be so much of a problem. Reitman is a comedy legend and wont wreck any ghostbusters property he’s involved with.

By: Hanglyman

Hanglyman — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:43:00 +0000

Sure, they could base it on “The Ghostbusters in Paris”, where it turned out the Eiffel Tower was an early prototype of a ghost containment unit. It could be all about Gustave Eiffel bustin’ ghosts in the 1880s!

By: Andrew Garrett

Andrew Garrett — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:34:00 +0000

Well, that’s true from a certain point of view.

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:24:00 +0000

What about prequels? Why can’t they make a Ghostbusters prequel? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:23:00 +0000

They did such a good job with the Blues Brothers sequels, what could possibly go wrong? RIGHT!!?!?!?

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:19:00 +0000

And the good guys will all be avenging the death of Bill Murray’s character.

By: TokyoSpark

TokyoSpark — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Tropic thunder was a comedy?

By: Snig

Snig — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:33:00 +0000

They did that with Rashomon, it kept being remade during filming.

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:27:00 +0000

It’s like hearing your really fun cousin, Dan Aykroyd, talking about the awesome band he’s in.

Apart from the fact that my cousin Dan Aykroyd is a real bore and has never been fun, except rarely, when he´s standing right next to someone who is.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:43:00 +0000

I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t do it, but that would be amazing.

By: Hanglyman

Hanglyman — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:56:00 +0000

I’m with Bill. Don’t make it, ever. You KNOW it’s going to be bad. Let Ghostbusters be one of the very few franchises without a crappy, way-too-late sequel made purely to cash in. Just be glad the video game turned out as well as it did, and if you REALLY need more Ghostbusters, watch the cartoon show, which was also pretty decent before Slimer took over.

By: hymenopterid

hymenopterid — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:49:00 +0000

Hollywood should just go back to making Lethal Weapon movies, because that is essentially what they want every movie to be.

Don’t even make it a sequel, just start shooting the next remake as soon as the last one goes to print. Didn’t they make Stagecoach like 11 times?

By: malindrome

malindrome — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:44:00 +0000

Isn’t there some kind of law that all films must be either a sequel, remake, or adaptation of a video game/TV show/board game?

By: Jorpho

Jorpho — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:23:00 +0000

Psst: The Wikiquote is missattributed. Someone named Rita Mae Brown said it, not Einstein.

And sure, I wouldn’t mind a Ghostbusters 3. Of course it would never hold up to the originals, but I’d like to see it anyway. (By the way, how are the graphic novels?)

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:13:00 +0000

I agree completely. The first film was great, and funny. Just let it be, and enjoy it for what it is.

By: Jer_00

Jer_00 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:03:00 +0000

Something original? That sounds risky.

Better to take something we know works and copy it. That’s less risky.

By: rtresco

rtresco — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:56:00 +0000

Bustin’ makes me feel good.

By: David Witt

David Witt — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:49:00 +0000

WTF is Harold Ramis?

By: landersrl4

landersrl4 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:38:00 +0000

Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis (yes there char) are not needed for a third movie, they were clients of the Ghostbusters, not Ghostbusters. Time to move on from them. And I agree the game had a very good story

By: Marko Raos

Marko Raos — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:11:00 +0000

“The Real Ghostbusters” is the only GB sequel worth its name. Amazing scripts for a saturday cartoon there – small wonder considering David Gerrold was involved.
If they hire that “stupid=funny” guy the franchise isn’t going to be “dead and buried” any more, it’s going to be “dead, pissed and defecated on and then burned in the town square.”
Keep stallin’ Bill!

By: Rob Knop

Rob Knop — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:59:00 +0000

Duke Nuke’Em Forever was finally released. Just sayin’. Mean that something like Ghostbusters 3 did happen.

(And the lesson from that was: when something is vaporware that long, it’s WAY better as vaporware than as something real. Of course, from what I hear Duke Nuke’Em Forever sucked in an absolute sense, not just compared to the decade+ of anticipation.)

By: Snig

Snig — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:46:00 +0000

Yes, we should have learned our lesson when they realized how bad Indiana Jones 4 was going to be, so they stopped filming and destroyed all copies of the film. (sticks fingers in ears and mutters to drown out reality)

By: Snig

Snig — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:40:00 +0000

Kristen Schaal could work.

By: Seg

Seg — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:37:00 +0000

I was about to say this! I was delightfully surprised at how well written the game was.

The only two people that were noticeably missing from the cast were Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis. For Mr. Moranis, he’s not doing acting work these days to focus on his kids, but the game literally left the chair open for him. I don’t have the conformation with Sigourney Weaver on the story, but the rumor stated she passed, then later was told everyone else was in the project.

By: strugglngwriter

strugglngwriter — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:10:00 +0000

Do we really want/need a Ghostbusters 3?

Am I the only one who would rather have something new and original that is good like Ghostbusters was in its time?

By: tristan eldritch

tristan eldritch — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:09:00 +0000

Needs to be a dark and gritty reboot, with a Bourne/Dark Knight edge. Fassbender to play Slimer as a spectral variation of his self-loathing sex addict in Shame.

By: Toxa

Toxa — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:45:00 +0000

Chinese Democracy