# Ghostbusters 3 is a go **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815 "2014-10-09T00:43:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/41 "2014-10-10T07:01:22Z")
Reboot a franchise that is little known and made a few missteps. Don’t reboot a franchise that is beloved and still holds up. Failures such as _Robocop_ and _Total Recall_, and successes such as _21 Jump Street_ and _Battlestar Galactica_ prove that. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/42 "2014-10-10T07:29:41Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Its been 25 years. A sequel now with the same cast will just be sad, as sad as the Dumb and Dumber sequel will be and as dumb as any old actor trying to recapture his youthful glory. If they didn’t do a sequel 2, 5, 10 years after, its too late, it will be pathetic now. Something like that is made to disappoint because it is impossible that the audience that watched the original are in the same mindset now as they were back then. So either you can grow the sequel, in which case you’ll get people complaining its not like the original, or you’ll have a movie tailored to people 25 years too old to appreciate the same jokes All that is kind of throwing in the towel to Hollywood cliches. Changing the tone in a sequel is risky but this is a long time past franchise. As you say the fans of that movie are in a different mindset now. They’ve learned to love Bill Murray in different roles. Maybe the original Ghostbusters got rich franchising their business and they are bitter oligarchs now. Venkman: "Yeah, I used to care about the job. I used to think the job was fun, actually. Sure, a ghost vomiting hotdogs on you is gross but looking back it’s almost kind of funny. But then I started meeting the smart ghosts. The mean ghosts. The smart mean ghosts. One of them stuck his head into me and barfed hotdogs directly into my stomach. Life’s different after that happens to you. " ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/43 "2014-10-10T07:37:29Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Reboot a franchise that is little known and made a few missteps. Don’t reboot a franchise that is beloved and still holds up. > > Failures such as _Robocop_ and _Total Recall_, and successes such as _21 Jump Street_ and _Battlestar Galactica_ prove that. Agreed 100%. And really, what made the first _Ghostbusters_ work was the fact that you had Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd at their commercial peak. I can probably imagine Tina Fey as a comparable draw, but otherwise, like _Robocop_ and _Total Recall_, this is the reboot that nobody asked for and even fewer seem interested in. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/44 "2014-10-10T15:27:38Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > And which one get ectoplasmed in the face? Which one gets the incubus? ---
**Author:** ![Osiris\_the\_1st](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de0a6/32.png) [@Osiris\_the\_1st](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osiris_the_1st)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/45 "2014-10-10T15:37:32Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > All that is kind of throwing in the towel to Hollywood cliches. Changing the tone in a sequel is risky but this is a long time past franchise. As you say the fans of that movie are in a different mindset now. They’ve learned to love Bill Murray in different roles. Maybe the original Ghostbusters got rich franchising their business and they are bitter oligarchs now. > > Venkman: "Yeah, I used to care about the job. I used to think the job was fun, actually. Sure, a ghost vomiting hotdogs on you is gross but looking back it’s almost kind of funny. But then I started meeting the smart ghosts. The mean ghosts. The smart mean ghosts. One of them stuck his head into me and barfed hotdogs directly into my stomach. Life’s different after that happens to you. " That is freaking hilarious. I nominate you to write this film. ---
**Author:** ![Osiris\_the\_1st](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de0a6/32.png) [@Osiris\_the\_1st](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osiris_the_1st)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/46 "2014-10-10T15:39:10Z")
My speculative cast: Amy Poeler, Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig, and Wanda Sykes. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/47 "2014-10-10T15:51:54Z")
> [@Osiris\_the\_1st](#): > > That is freaking hilarious. I nominate you to write this film. Y’see, I was always hoping that Murray would be the ANTAGONIST in GB3. That he’d be lured to do it by playing a dead Peter Venkman who is now evil and take-over-the-worldy and such. Murray could run with that sort of thing for a day and a half. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/48 "2014-10-10T18:23:03Z")
This movie will suck ass. Women never make good leads in these types of movies whether it’s a pseudo sequel or not. They just don’t fit with slapstick/action. Bridesmaids got as close as women will ever to to success in that arena. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/49 "2014-10-10T18:34:18Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Y’see, I was always hoping that Murray would be the ANTAGONIST in GB3. That he’d be lured to do it by playing a dead Peter Venkman who is now evil and take-over-the-worldy and such. Murray could run with that sort of thing for a day and a half. That idea was bandied about previously I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/50 "2014-10-10T18:40:01Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > The original guys better have cameos. Unless they hold a seance, that might be a little problematic. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/51 "2014-10-10T22:19:26Z")
> [@Osiris\_the\_1st](#): > > That is freaking hilarious. I nominate you to write this film. 🙂 Thanks. After reading it a couple times in Murray’s voice it seems to work. I’ll get to work on that screenplay. Lol ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/52 "2014-10-12T02:18:20Z")
> [@Osiris\_the\_1st](#): > > My speculative cast: Amy Poeler, Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig, and Wanda Sykes. I have a hard time believing they are going to make this movie where the median age of the cast is 46. Wiig is probable. Rebel Wilson and Melissa McCarthy are talked about quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/53 "2014-10-12T18:38:20Z")
> [@Lobot](#): > > this is the reboot that nobody asked for and even fewer seem interested in. I Ain’t Afraida No Box Office! (…tax write-offs make me FEEL Go-ooood!!!) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/54 "2014-10-12T21:29:09Z")
> [@Cubsfan](#): > > This movie will suck ass. Women never make good leads in these types of movies whether it’s a pseudo sequel or not. How about Helen Mirren in RED & RED 2? ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815/55 "2014-10-12T22:29:32Z")
I remember seeing ads for an IDW all fem Ghostbusters comic. Was that any good? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-3-is-a-go/700815.md?page=2)