# Ghostbusters III on the way for 2020.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 19, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024 "2019-01-19T02:52:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2019, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/1 "2019-01-19T02:52:55Z")
[Set to be directed by Ivan Rietman’s son, and a direct sequel to the last _Ghostbusters_ movie from 1984](https://variety.com/2019/film/news/jason-reitman-ghostbusters-director-1203109264/).
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/2 "2019-01-19T03:03:41Z")
So, they’re having a sequel after a reboot? That feels all kinds of weird.
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### Author:  [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2019, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/3 "2019-01-19T04:02:00Z")
Marvel seems to have pulled off deagifying (is that a word?) Samuel L. Jackson, but it’s probably going to be a bit more difficult with Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd, who have aged much more noticeably. Harold Ramis will be even more difficult :(.
I wasn’t able to read the link, which pulled up a blank page for me, but the whole thing seems like a terrible idea.
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2019, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/4 "2019-01-19T04:33:01Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#):
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> Marvel seems to have pulled off deagifying (is that a word?) Samuel L. Jackson, but it’s probably going to be a bit more difficult with Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd, who have aged much more noticeably. Harold Ramis will be even more difficult :(.
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> I wasn’t able to read the link, which pulled up a blank page for me, but the whole thing seems like a terrible idea.
The link says, “sources say Reitman has begun testing teenagers for four mystery roles.”
This sounds worse than terrible.
Just make a sequal of the 2016 movie. It was way funnier than either of the original two.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2019, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/5 "2019-01-19T04:53:02Z")
Lots of other links. [Here](https://ew.com/trailers/2019/01/16/jason-reitman-ghostbusters-movie-teaser/) is one of them. (It includes the very minor teaser.)
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2019, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/6 "2019-01-19T05:59:08Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> The link says, “sources say Reitman has begun testing teenagers for four mystery roles.”
“Ghostbusters: The Next Generation”?
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2019, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/7 "2019-01-19T06:30:19Z")
[quote=“FlikTheBlue, post:3, topic:828024”]
Marvel seems to have pulled off deagifying (is that a word?) Samuel L. Jackson, but it’s probably going to be a bit more difficult with Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd, who have aged much more noticeably. /QUOTE]Why would they need to de-age them? If it’s been 35 years, then they’ll be 35 years older.
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### Author:  [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/8 "2019-01-20T13:34:44Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> The link says, “sources say Reitman has begun testing teenagers for four mystery roles.”
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> This sounds worse than terrible.
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> Just make a sequal of the 2016 movie. It was way funnier than either of the original two.
That might work if they fix the biggest problem that movie had. The whole point of Ghostbusters should be that the villain is a ghost or supernatural entity of some kind. Gozer, Zuul, and Staypuft were good villains, and Vigo had his moments, but a human villain that I don’t even remember the name of just didn’t work. Having a human be the main villain ruined that movie.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/9 "2019-01-20T14:59:02Z")
I ain’t afraid of no sequel.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/10 "2019-01-20T17:05:33Z")
**FlikTheBlue** , did you walk out halfway through? The villain of the 2106 Ghostbusters _was_ human… for the first half of the movie. Then he committed suicide using his ghost-amplification-device, and so turned himself into a super-powerful ghost. Which was at about the same time in the movie where the original crew first encountered their boss monsters.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/11 "2019-01-20T17:27:55Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> Just make a sequal of the 2016 movie. It was way funnier than either of the original two.
I found the 2016 movie just appalling. It was like an experiment in how to make the least funny movie with the most objectively funny actors. The original had some laughs, though in retrospect parts haven’t aged well.
Really, maybe just do something else. The world does not need more Ghostbusters.
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### Author:  [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/12 "2019-01-20T18:13:34Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> **FlikTheBlue** , did you walk out halfway through? The villain of the 2106 Ghostbusters _was_ human… for the first half of the movie. Then he committed suicide using his ghost-amplification-device, and so turned himself into a super-powerful ghost. Which was at about the same time in the movie where the original crew first encountered their boss monsters.
I did watch the whole thing. I remember him turning into a ghost, and I suppose at one point Vigo was human, but this latest villain still sucked. A guy who wants to get revenge against humans because he felt bullied doesn’t compare to an ancient Sumerian goddess or even a medieval count who was a master of black magic and is still around 500 years.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/13 "2019-01-20T19:07:44Z")
Leslie Jones [is not taking this well](https://www.thewrap.com/leslie-jones-calls-new-ghostbusters-squel-insulting/).
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### Author:  [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/14 "2019-01-20T19:36:20Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> The link says, “sources say Reitman has begun testing teenagers for four mystery roles.”
I hope they don’t get a Great Dane.
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### Author:  [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/15 "2019-01-20T20:35:34Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Leslie Jones [is not taking this well](https://www.thewrap.com/leslie-jones-calls-new-ghostbusters-squel-insulting/).
Buried down at the end after the drama
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> Described as “the next chapter” in the story started by the 1984 original, it will involve the passing of a torch to a new generation of paranormal investigators.
That sound like the four mystery roles are the new generation.
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### Author:  [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/16 "2019-01-21T00:33:04Z")
> [@DinoR](#):
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> Buried down at the end after the drama
> That sound like the four mystery roles are the new generation.
They really should have done this with Ghostbusters 2016 at least instead of wasting the original crew as cameos. Would have fixed some of the movie to me, but instead in true Hollywood fashion they wanted a blank slate solely because they wanted to make this an “Extended Universe” and didn’t like having the “future movies” tied to original continuity.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/17 "2019-01-21T00:44:39Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> The link says, “sources say Reitman has begun testing teenagers for four mystery roles.”.
So in this film the ghosts will be bank robbers wearing rubber masks?
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### Author:  [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/18 "2019-01-21T01:39:46Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> So, they’re having a sequel after a reboot? That feels all kinds of weird.
Does it? AFAICT it’s also being done with, for example, Spider-Man films, where Tom Holland’s Spidey is going to go on appearing in the Marvel movies despite the release of the very different _Into the Spider-Verse_ in the meantime.
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### Author:  [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2019, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/19 "2019-01-21T11:19:20Z")
> [@Kimstu](#):
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> Does it? AFAICT it’s also being done with, for example, Spider-Man films, where Tom Holland’s Spidey is going to go on appearing in the Marvel movies despite the release of the very different _Into the Spider-Verse_ in the meantime.
There’s been two separate Halloween movies that have been direct sequels to the first film after a series reboot.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ghostbusters-iii-on-the-way-for-2020/828024/20 "2019-01-21T19:36:14Z")
Loved loved _loved_ the original, was underwhelmed by the sequel, didn’t see the all-women remake. Unless the reviews of this new movie are boffo, I’m sure I won’t see it.
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