Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
#726
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Re: Ghostbusters 3
"It's being written right now"? I thought it HAD been written long ago and they couldn't get either the studio or Murray onboard? I never thought it was a script issue, I always thought it was a "getting the greenlight" issue?
#727
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Re: Ghostbusters 3
It is a shame he could never get 3 off the ground back in the day.
Instead of beating the same drum and trying to get 3 greenlit all over again, he should go a different route. Hit up Netflix, Amazon or Hulu for a 10 episode series or something. That would really give them a way to open up the universe. With something like that he could work in all the crazy ideas that have been floating around for years.
#729
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Re: Ghostbusters 3
Though I think the sell-by date on GBIII passed twenty years ago.
#730
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Re: Ghostbusters 3
Just stop. No one really wants a movie with 70 year old Ghostbusters.
If we absolutely need GB3 then do it with new actors.
If we absolutely need GB3 then do it with new actors.
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#734
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Re: Ghostbusters 3
Yeah at least. Had a third film happened maybe even ten years ago I think they could have gotten away with it just barely. At this point though it feels like nothing more than one final grasp at forcing it to happen. The cast members that are still around are too old in my opinion and obviously Ramis is no longer with us. The only way I see this working maybe, and it’s a big maybe after the 2016 film is if the original team is training a new team. I feel like that’s not what most people want though and obviously the last film was rejected pretty badly so not sure that’s a good route to take.
They missed the boat on a third film by not doing it a lot earlier, which is unfortunate as I’d have liked to have seen it. I feel like it’ll just be sad if it happens.
They missed the boat on a third film by not doing it a lot earlier, which is unfortunate as I’d have liked to have seen it. I feel like it’ll just be sad if it happens.
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#735
Re: Ghostbusters 3
Yeah at least. Had a third film happened maybe even ten years ago I think they could have gotten away with it just barely. At this point though it feels like nothing more than one final grasp at forcing it to happen. The cast members that are still around are too old in my opinion and obviously Ramis is no longer with us. The only way I see this working maybe, and it’s a big maybe after the 2016 film is if the original team is training a new team. I feel like that’s not what most people want though and obviously the last film was rejected pretty badly so not sure that’s a good route to take.
They missed the boat on a third film by not doing it a lot earlier, which is unfortunate as I’d have liked to have seen it. I feel like it’ll just be sad if it happens.
They missed the boat on a third film by not doing it a lot earlier, which is unfortunate as I’d have liked to have seen it. I feel like it’ll just be sad if it happens.
Arguably the star of the film, Bill Murray only agreed to do the first one if the studio would finance a film he was making, Razor's Edge.
And I read that he only did the second one because he was wanted to get back into movies and needed a guaranteed hit.
The second one was not nearly as good as the first because it was this big monied property now, so the studio wanted to play it safe. Can't have the Ghostbusters smoking cigarettes because kids watch the cartoons and buy the toys.
Don't want to risk it being a flop by doing something different, so lets just repeat the same beats the first one had, which is why we had the dumb statue of liberty scene.
I love the movie, and it had the potential to be a very good trilogy at the time, but the odds were against it from the start.
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Re: Ghostbusters 3
I think Ghostbusters is just close to his heart and has little to do with money. It's probably his favorite role and the ideas he's had rolling around in his head for decades is just gnawing at him.
It is a shame he could never get 3 off the ground back in the day.
Instead of beating the same drum and trying to get 3 greenlit all over again, he should go a different route. Hit up Netflix, Amazon or Hulu for a 10 episode series or something. That would really give them a way to open up the universe. With something like that he could work in all the crazy ideas that have been floating around for years.
It is a shame he could never get 3 off the ground back in the day.
Instead of beating the same drum and trying to get 3 greenlit all over again, he should go a different route. Hit up Netflix, Amazon or Hulu for a 10 episode series or something. That would really give them a way to open up the universe. With something like that he could work in all the crazy ideas that have been floating around for years.
In this case, I would be OK with a passing-of-the-torch story that is focused on the NEW squad. I do NOT want to see a reunion where they strap on the proton packs (and can't fit in the shoulder straps).
#740
Re: Ghostbusters 3
They should bring Leslie Jones back from the remake to take Harold Ramis's place. Actually maybe they could recast her in the role of Egon Spengler.
#742
Re: Ghostbusters 3
They kind of boxed themselves in with the first film though, which might explain why GB2 recycled the plot from GB1.
We find out that the only reason they're in business is because the end of days is happening, with the dead rising. They end up preventing it, but presumably that would mean that their business would take a considerable hit, because hauntings would be pretty uncommon outside of the last days/Judgment Day.
I mean, I'm sure they could of found a more creative work around, story-wise, but it does explain why the sequel was so different from how we saw the team in the animated series.
We find out that the only reason they're in business is because the end of days is happening, with the dead rising. They end up preventing it, but presumably that would mean that their business would take a considerable hit, because hauntings would be pretty uncommon outside of the last days/Judgment Day.
I mean, I'm sure they could of found a more creative work around, story-wise, but it does explain why the sequel was so different from how we saw the team in the animated series.
#743
Jason Reitman to direct new Ghostbusters movie
Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full-trance mediums, the Loch Ness Monster and the theory of Atlantis?
If so, good news — there’s a new Ghostbusters movie in the works.
Entertainment Weekly has learned exclusively that Jason Reitman will direct and co-write an upcoming film set in the world that was saved decades previously by the proton pack-wearing working stiffs in the original 1984 movie, which was directed by his father, Ivan Reitman.
“I’ve always thought of myself as the first Ghostbusters fan, when I was a 6-year-old visiting the set. I wanted to make a movie for all the other fans,” Reitman says. “This is the next chapter in the original franchise. It is not a reboot. What happened in the ‘80s happened in the ‘80s, and this is set in the present day.”
Sony Pictures has dated the film for Summer 2020, with plans to start shooting in a few months.
It’s still too soon to reveal the plot of the screenplay, who the new characters will be, or whether the original actors like Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, or Bill Murray will return. Harold Ramis died in 2014.
“This is very early, and I want the film to unwrap like a present. We have a lot of wonderful surprises and new characters for the audience to meet,” says Reitman, who co-wrote the screenplay with Monster House and Poltergeist remake filmmaker Gil Kenan.
The all-female Ghostbusters movie that director Paul Feig made in 2016 with Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Kristen Wiig, and Melissa McCarthy started its story from scratch, unconnected to the earlier films, so it won’t have ties to this new one. “I have so much respect for what Paul created with those brilliant actresses, and would love to see more stories from them. However, this new movie will follow the trajectory of the original film,” Reitman says.
Reitman, an Oscar-nominee for Up in the Air and Juno, released two films last year — the Charlize Theron motherhood story Tully and the Hugh Jackman political drama The Front Runner.
He grew up idolizing his dad’s big-budget comedies like Stripes, Twins, and Dave, and says he was just as obsessed with Ghostbustersas any other ‘80s kid.
“I love everything about it. The iconography. The music. The tone,” Reitman says. “I remember being on set and seeing them try out the card catalog gag for the first time when the library ghost makes them come flying out. I remember the day they killed Stay Puft and I brought home a hardened piece of foam that just sat on a shelf for years. I was scared there was a terror dog underneath my bed before people knew what a terror dog was.”
Jason, his mother, and sister played panicked residents fleeing the “Spook Central” haunted skyscraper in the first film, but they were ultimately cut. (Here’s a shot of 6-year-old Jason posing with his father on the fractured Manhattan street they constructed.)
Courtesy of Reitman Family
A few years later, the boy did get a laugh line in the 1989 sequel, playing a birthday boy who was unimpressed by the Ghostbusters: “My dad says you guys are full of crap.”
When he began making his own movies, starting with 2005’s Thank You for Smoking, Reitman was often asked in interviews if he’d ever want to make his own Ghostbusters movie.
“I think I said, ‘There’d be no busting,’” he recalls with a laugh.
The truth is, he often wondered about making one, too: “I’ve thought about this franchise and it has occupied a piece of my heart for basically as long as I can remember.”
His father will produce the movie. “It will be a passing of the torch both inside and out,” says Ivan, adding that he’s touched his son wanted to join this part of the family business. “It was a decision he had to come to himself. He worked really hard to be independent and developed a wonderful career on his own. So I was quite surprised when he came to me with Gil and said, ‘I know I’ve been saying for 10 years I’m the last person who should make a Ghostbusters movie, but…I have this idea.’ Literally, I was crying by the end of it, it was so emotional and funny.”
Sony is also developing an animated Ghostbusters film, but that will come out after this new live-action project, and a different team will be involved in creating it.
“The Ghostbusters universe is big enough to hold a lot of different stories,” Jason says.
If so, good news — there’s a new Ghostbusters movie in the works.
Entertainment Weekly has learned exclusively that Jason Reitman will direct and co-write an upcoming film set in the world that was saved decades previously by the proton pack-wearing working stiffs in the original 1984 movie, which was directed by his father, Ivan Reitman.
“I’ve always thought of myself as the first Ghostbusters fan, when I was a 6-year-old visiting the set. I wanted to make a movie for all the other fans,” Reitman says. “This is the next chapter in the original franchise. It is not a reboot. What happened in the ‘80s happened in the ‘80s, and this is set in the present day.”
Sony Pictures has dated the film for Summer 2020, with plans to start shooting in a few months.
It’s still too soon to reveal the plot of the screenplay, who the new characters will be, or whether the original actors like Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, or Bill Murray will return. Harold Ramis died in 2014.
“This is very early, and I want the film to unwrap like a present. We have a lot of wonderful surprises and new characters for the audience to meet,” says Reitman, who co-wrote the screenplay with Monster House and Poltergeist remake filmmaker Gil Kenan.
The all-female Ghostbusters movie that director Paul Feig made in 2016 with Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Kristen Wiig, and Melissa McCarthy started its story from scratch, unconnected to the earlier films, so it won’t have ties to this new one. “I have so much respect for what Paul created with those brilliant actresses, and would love to see more stories from them. However, this new movie will follow the trajectory of the original film,” Reitman says.
Reitman, an Oscar-nominee for Up in the Air and Juno, released two films last year — the Charlize Theron motherhood story Tully and the Hugh Jackman political drama The Front Runner.
He grew up idolizing his dad’s big-budget comedies like Stripes, Twins, and Dave, and says he was just as obsessed with Ghostbustersas any other ‘80s kid.
“I love everything about it. The iconography. The music. The tone,” Reitman says. “I remember being on set and seeing them try out the card catalog gag for the first time when the library ghost makes them come flying out. I remember the day they killed Stay Puft and I brought home a hardened piece of foam that just sat on a shelf for years. I was scared there was a terror dog underneath my bed before people knew what a terror dog was.”
Jason, his mother, and sister played panicked residents fleeing the “Spook Central” haunted skyscraper in the first film, but they were ultimately cut. (Here’s a shot of 6-year-old Jason posing with his father on the fractured Manhattan street they constructed.)
Courtesy of Reitman Family
A few years later, the boy did get a laugh line in the 1989 sequel, playing a birthday boy who was unimpressed by the Ghostbusters: “My dad says you guys are full of crap.”
When he began making his own movies, starting with 2005’s Thank You for Smoking, Reitman was often asked in interviews if he’d ever want to make his own Ghostbusters movie.
“I think I said, ‘There’d be no busting,’” he recalls with a laugh.
The truth is, he often wondered about making one, too: “I’ve thought about this franchise and it has occupied a piece of my heart for basically as long as I can remember.”
His father will produce the movie. “It will be a passing of the torch both inside and out,” says Ivan, adding that he’s touched his son wanted to join this part of the family business. “It was a decision he had to come to himself. He worked really hard to be independent and developed a wonderful career on his own. So I was quite surprised when he came to me with Gil and said, ‘I know I’ve been saying for 10 years I’m the last person who should make a Ghostbusters movie, but…I have this idea.’ Literally, I was crying by the end of it, it was so emotional and funny.”
Sony is also developing an animated Ghostbusters film, but that will come out after this new live-action project, and a different team will be involved in creating it.
“The Ghostbusters universe is big enough to hold a lot of different stories,” Jason says.
This is what they should’ve done all along.
Last edited by dex14; 01-15-19 at 07:29 PM.
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#745
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re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
Wow that is pretty cool actually.
#746
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re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
Max Landis's Kentucky Fried Movie 2 can't be far off I used to spank it to one of the naked tiddy girls in the original. We're now Facebook friends. She's a grandmother now. Would still bang.
#747
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re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
Awesome, I'm excited and I'll take it as an apology for Ghostbusters 2016.
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Can't wait for the studio and director to rally behind an all-male version! Just imagine, seeing men working in so many positions on a film set! Incredible.
#750
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re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
Thank god now everyone can shut the fuck up about the perfectly fine 2016 version.
That would only be notable if it was notable.
That would only be notable if it was notable.