Instead of Ghostbusters 3 there should be a movie
04-11-16 | 04:28 PM
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Re: Instead of Ghostbusters 3 there should be a movie
this cannot fail hard enough for me.....
04-11-16 | 07:00 PM
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So sometimes random comments like this get stuck in my head, and more than once over the weekend I had the idea to take this a step further:
Instead of Dan Akroyd trying to get the film made, Dan Akroyd reprises his role as Ray Stantz trying to get a film about the Ghostbusters made. During filming, supernatural activity spikes, and the actors portraying the original four get pressed into service as real Ghostbusters because the original guys are physically unable to keep up and must serve as advisers.
Instead of Dan Akroyd trying to get the film made, Dan Akroyd reprises his role as Ray Stantz trying to get a film about the Ghostbusters made. During filming, supernatural activity spikes, and the actors portraying the original four get pressed into service as real Ghostbusters because the original guys are physically unable to keep up and must serve as advisers.
It's a presidential election year, evidence is passé.
07-24-17 | 04:22 PM
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In a world of really bad ideas...
JULY 24, 2017 12:36pm PT by Ryan Parker
Harold Ramis' Daughter Addresses 'Ghostbusters 3' Possibly Including a CG Egon
Ivan Reitman made headlines over the weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, where the producer/director said there may be another live action Ghostbusters down the road.
Reitman made the comment while discussing possible projects in a panel related to the beloved franchise, which included "wonderful plans for an animated feature that we're deep in design on already and a really great story ... And of course a new live-action film. I am not giving any more secrets," he said.
Screen Rant reported that Reitman was asked during the panel if any consideration was given to creating a CG version of any of the original cast, which would include the late Harold Ramis for Egon, if the possible fourth film changed gears from the 2016 female-led reboot, to which the director said "It’s possible … it’s something we’re thinking of."
On Monday, Ramis' daughter, Violet Ramis Stiel, told Heat Vision she was aware of Reitman's comments over the weekend.
"It's bizarre," Ramis Stiel said of the possible digital re-creation of her late father. "Personally, for me, it is hard to imagine that people would accept it, but who knows. The technology now is amazing."
Ramis died in 2014 at the age of 69. In 2016, his daughter penned a touching essay about growing up with her dad on the sets of movies like Ghostbusters.
Bringing actors back from the dead for a film has been somewhat controversial. When the legendary Peter Cushing was re-created for Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, some fans praised how far technology had come to allow the effect to happen and to look so eerily great. But there were others who said it was disrespectful to the late actor. The Cushing estate gave its blessing for the endeavor.
The original stars of Ghostbusters have talked for decades about a possible third installment to follow up Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghosbusters II (1989). Those have yet to materialize, but the 2016 reboot was a commercial bomb. It's unclear how serious talks of a third film starring the original cast really are.
Ramis Stiel said if — and it may be a huge if, who really knows — another Ghostbusters is made and her father is digitally added, it would be OK with her as long as the work is exceptional.
"I try to think what would he have thought," she said. "If it's great and it works, then good. And if there is a problem, then obviously no."
Harold Ramis' Daughter Addresses 'Ghostbusters 3' Possibly Including a CG Egon
Ivan Reitman made headlines over the weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, where the producer/director said there may be another live action Ghostbusters down the road.
Reitman made the comment while discussing possible projects in a panel related to the beloved franchise, which included "wonderful plans for an animated feature that we're deep in design on already and a really great story ... And of course a new live-action film. I am not giving any more secrets," he said.
Screen Rant reported that Reitman was asked during the panel if any consideration was given to creating a CG version of any of the original cast, which would include the late Harold Ramis for Egon, if the possible fourth film changed gears from the 2016 female-led reboot, to which the director said "It’s possible … it’s something we’re thinking of."
On Monday, Ramis' daughter, Violet Ramis Stiel, told Heat Vision she was aware of Reitman's comments over the weekend.
"It's bizarre," Ramis Stiel said of the possible digital re-creation of her late father. "Personally, for me, it is hard to imagine that people would accept it, but who knows. The technology now is amazing."
Ramis died in 2014 at the age of 69. In 2016, his daughter penned a touching essay about growing up with her dad on the sets of movies like Ghostbusters.
Bringing actors back from the dead for a film has been somewhat controversial. When the legendary Peter Cushing was re-created for Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, some fans praised how far technology had come to allow the effect to happen and to look so eerily great. But there were others who said it was disrespectful to the late actor. The Cushing estate gave its blessing for the endeavor.
The original stars of Ghostbusters have talked for decades about a possible third installment to follow up Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghosbusters II (1989). Those have yet to materialize, but the 2016 reboot was a commercial bomb. It's unclear how serious talks of a third film starring the original cast really are.
Ramis Stiel said if — and it may be a huge if, who really knows — another Ghostbusters is made and her father is digitally added, it would be OK with her as long as the work is exceptional.
"I try to think what would he have thought," she said. "If it's great and it works, then good. And if there is a problem, then obviously no."
07-24-17 | 10:17 PM
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If they go original, please animate all four of them. I have no desire to have the characters sullied by 70-year old versions. Yeah, looking at you Indiana Jones.
07-25-17 | 12:25 AM
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UGGGGHHHHH! CGI Harold Ramis? For the love of God please, PLEASE just let it die already. The ship has sailed. ITS OVER. Why can't Aykroyd and Reitman just move on already. The Ghostbusters remake was a fucking disaster. Ramis is dead. Murray wants no part of it. Moranis is happily retired. It's just DONE. I wanted it to happen for YEARS. But with all thats gone on in the past few years, the waters have gotten way too murky for anything good to come of this.
07-25-17 | 12:30 AM
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Because they have nothing else to offer and probably feel they got screwed over with how the remake turned out. As much as I wouldn't mind seeing a cartoon series, or even animated movies (DTV), I agree, it is over.
07-25-17 | 12:56 AM
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There's something really Sunset Boulevard about this whole thing. Year after year they keep pining away for a new Ghostbusters, always trying to hatch new schemes to make it happen, even when they don't have a leg to stand on. I mean, don't get me wrong, I LOVE Dan Aykroyd and Ivan Reitman, the impact their work has left on me is enormous, but theres something just so sad and pathetic about it. I picture Ghostbusters being on both of their minds on a day to day basis almost as much as Star Wars is on George Lucas's mind. They just can't get over it. Even when it becomes embarrassing on their part, they can't let it go. I always loved Bill Murray the most, but I was always sort of angry when I thought that he was the one thing holding back GB3. I thought he was being stubborn. But now I see that he was the only smart one of the bunch. He was right to be skeptical and say no all those times. I just wish that instead of being a nice guy and saying yes to Paul Feig that he would have told him to fuck right off.
