Ghostbusters 3 is a go

[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.

[CarnalK]

@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. "

[Lobot]

@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.

[Skywatcher]

@Isamu

And which one get ectoplasmed in the face?

Which one gets the incubus?

[Osiris_the_1st]

@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.

[Osiris_the_1st]

My speculative cast: Amy Poeler, Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig, and Wanda Sykes.

[Jonathan_Chance]

@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.

[Cubsfan]

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.

[GrandWino]

@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.

[Kimballkid]

@GrandWino

The original guys better have cameos.

Unless they hold a seance, that might be a little problematic.

[CarnalK]

@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

[Push_You_Down]

@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.

[Count_Blucher]

@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!!!)

[Quartz]

@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?

[marshmallow]

I remember seeing ads for an IDW all fem Ghostbusters comic. Was that any good?