which one is gonna be the keymaster
An all-girl *Ghostbusters *reboot could be, ah, something I suppose. But it won’t in any way, shape or form be a GB 3. Even before the death of Harold Ramis (which was the absolute final nail in the coffin for a true third film) the expiration date for Ghostbusters III expired around the year 2000 or so. It became sort of like the new Guns n’ Roses album, a big ‘Who cares?’. Plus even if Ramis hadn’t died I don’t think Bill Murray would have ever done it, and I can understand his reasons why…
Or like a new Indiana Jones movie (shudder).
Yeah that’s what I meant though. His refusal to do another has brought us this travesty. I’m just kidding though. Don’t blame him at all.I hear he’d rather play pro-am golf tournaments than doing movies, so a lame 20 years too late sequel is out of the question.
The article I linked to that inspired me to post specifically says it will not be a sequel and will not be directly linked to the original.
This is the sort of lame gimmickry that forms the premise of a really bad sitcom. Plus, it’s yet another entry on the long list of “Movies which really didn’t need to be remade, but the director’s heroine addiction isn’t going to pay for itself.”
Ah, that’s why the new Ghostbusters will all be women. 
Obviously you didn’t read the article as the director specifically contradicts you two.
He’s is not making a GB3. No one wanted to because no one wanted to fuck it up and be hated. He is making a world that has never seen ghosts before and these women come together to make Ghostbusters for the first time like in the original movie. So it is a reboot.
He wants to make it in the world of today with todays updated tech.
I think if he can get the right group of women together this movie will be a blast. It won’t have that 80s feel but that’s a good thing.
I typically hate reboots. However, I am looking forward to this one.
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
But I like the all female cast, I think something like that is actually a smart move, and it brings a fresh perspective to an old property. In fact, I’ll go as far to say that I would PREFER a Ghostbusters 3 with an all female cast rather than with the original 4 because I wouldn’t cringing at every moment about how the guys have all lost their touch and are a pathetic shell of their former selves
All good reasons to just leave well enough alone and think of something new.
Who’s going to play the pussyless EPA inspector?
Don’t get me wrong. I’m usually the first person saying that, and I agree. My point is simply that, on paper, there’s nothing there beyond the brand name that is pulling me towards wanting to see this. If it turns out to be awesome, I’ll see it and be happy that the franchise was given a second chance, but right now my interest level is only slightly above zero.
And Feig explicitly said that this story will be set in a world where the other movies never happened. This is most definitely not a sequel.
I’m one of those people who WILL go see a movie just for the FX, so to see a movie ghost done in TODAY’S CGI technology is rather intriguing. As much as I love the original movies, when I watch them today the ghosts do look kind of on the cheesy side.
Ghostbusters is one of my fav movies. I really hope that they won’t fuck this up.
Stallone is actually talking about doing this, and he refers to it as The Expendabelles. I wince at that title and hope it’s not going to be official. Might be a fun movie, though.
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Word! At least they made up on Harold’s deathbed.
So basically, he was really hoping and wishing he could make a movie as funny as Ghostbusters, but couldn’t think of anything good, so he’s just gonna rip off the original and throw in a mega-fuckload of CG. Makes as much Hollywood sense as anything else, I suppose.
And which one get ectoplasmed in the face?
Um, no that’s not correct.
Sony was really hoping and wishing they could make a movie as funny as Ghostbusters, realized that the movie-going public at large are better to be counted upon to provide huge opening weekend box office receipts for a sequel or remake, so they hired Paul Feig to direct it and Katie Dippold to direct it.
Seriously, if sequels and remakes are something to get angry about then the anger is more appropriately directed at the movie-going public than at the creative team that has been courted and hired by the studio to put the movie together.
I’d say it’s a coin-toss as to whether more blame should go to the studios or to the ticket-buyers, but leave the hired guns out of it at this stage- when the movie’s finished then we can critique their actual work.
Not every director/writer is an auteur, in fact most of them aren’t.
Most of them just do work for hire and they’re always looking to book the next gig.
Proving your competence on a big movie betters your chances that, when a huge studio does decide to risk putting money into a fresh and original script, they’ll come to you to direct it.