Thats who Im gonna call.

GB3 is going to rape my childhood.

Wait...Will Ferrell playing a character who thinks he is way more important and intelligent than he really is?

BK, it would be a drastic change from his routine ultra-dramatic stuff.

Guess I'm a little more optimistic than you are and predict that it will be better than 2 which I thought kinda sucked by comparison but a lot a sequels in the 80s did for that matter.

It still made me laugh. It was still memorable though, it definitely had some flaws which I dismiss due to the fact that GB is at heart a comedic fantasy.

I dont think this movie even has a shot of being good, and im a big GB fan. I cant even come up with a cast of people Id want to be in the movie.

I see people suggesting the Lonely Island guys, will ferrel, seth rogen, paul hader? please lord no.

Everyone has an opinion on who is an isn't "GB material" but that's just because of differing tastes and senses of humor.
The decision that the writers and existing cast members make is the right one, because it fits in line with their sense of humor and taste, which is what the original was built on. Zany antics aren't what fits. They'll pic dry, sarcastic cast members. I would be very suprised to see Will Ferrell or Jack Black cast, as with Vince Vaughn.

Paul Rudd could work, I'm dead-set against Jack Black and Will Ferrel though...

I think the guys from the Ninja Sex Party would be awesome.

I'm all for Rudd and Rogen, but I'm sure there are plenty who'd feel the same way about that as I would about other comedians

just because the writers and existing cast members pick them doesnt make them good picks. Did the actors George Lucas picked for star wars make those picks right even though they were mostly terrible?

I like Paul Rudd usually, I guess I wouldnt mind him if I had to choose new actors.

If Jack Black is in this movie I will boycott it.

I dunno though I feel like this movie could be great.

If they've waited this long to make it, don't you think they've been waiting until they have a good enough script?

They all have plenty of money, and I'd imagine that this only happens if they are comfortable with the script.

Isn't the movie now NOT being written by Ramis and Aykroyd? I don't trust anybody but them to handle it.

eh I would say the writing was the mistake Lucas made. It would be wrong to thing he did the same thing as he did with the originals, because he didn't.
He decided to write and direct the prequels on his own. In the past, he wrote the stories and had screenwriters make the dialogue work.
He should have done that again.

With the exception of Hayden Christensen, casting was perfectly fine. Ewan McGreggor was immense as Obi Wan, as were Liam Neeson and all of the returning cast members. Samuel L. Jackson was great.
Natalie Portman's dialogue was wooden, and she obviously wasn't getting direction. As a casting job, she's fine. She's not a bad actress at all.

Even Hayden Christensen probably would have been fine if he got some better dialogue and direction to work with. He was praised in Life As A House.
They brought on a dialogue coach for Episode 3 and although he still had his awful moments, he was much improved.

So it might just be my opinion, but as a Star Wars fan I thought the story, characters, casting and overall design of the prequels was more than fine.
My problems were with dialogue, direction, and an overabundance of CGI

Somehow I foresee Seth Rogen being Ray's Stantz successor and Steve Carell being Peter Venkman's or Egan's successor in this I dunno why.

Based on style of humor and just personality I think Seth Rogen would be far more likely to be the Venkman style guy, while Carrell would be the Stantz type

The only Apatow person that might work for this is Jason Segal. Everyone else is too old to be a new guy or doesn't look like they should be fighting ghosts at all.

Paul Rudd is the next Bill Murray. I said it.

Jason Segel would also be fine with me

Bill Murray is the next Bill Murray. He will never stop being relevant.

FACT: Bill Murray was the next Walter Matthau.
FACT: Paul Rudd is the next Bill Murray.

jason segal would be perfect

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=62369

Okay, so this is really starting to take shape heading into the summer

C'MON PEOPLE

There is not words that could express my excitement

If it's going to be some lame, "passing the torch" movie about the older ghostbusters mentoring new ghostbusters like the rumors say, then I give a big :n: to the whole thing.

However, if it's going to be like "Space Cowboys" where the old ghostbusters return to save the day, then I'm all for it

Uh-oh...

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/n...busters-3.html

As long as whoever they bring in possess 2 Key Traits.....

THEY GOTTA HAVE THE TOOLS, THEY GOTTA HAVE THE TALENT!

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/9081/winston.jpg

The issue is, if Sony Pictures say "we don't want you Ivan", Reitman has the power to say "no more Ghostbusters for you". Like a movie nazi.

:-\

I'm with Reitman. :y:

How is this a bad thing?

Some news:

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/367...ghostbusters-3

National Enquirer...lol

The original source is Bloody Disguising. They've proven to be a good source. Plus, don't know if you saw the clip of Bill on Letterman, or heck, read/listened to any of his interviews in regards of Ghostbusters 3, but he's really not into it.

Honestly, if Reitman isn't helming, they should probably cancel it out all together. The franchise has a nice legacy, and getting a new director could lead to a clunker that could leave the franchise ending on a sour note.

I would love a 3rd and final installment, but Sony has to treat this as a big deal and put the quality of the film first.

It's pretty well known that Bill Murray hates playing Peter Venkman, yet they act surprised when he isn't excited to do the role again?

Yea, but he was excited about playing the role again. He suddenly had a big turn around and got enthusiastic about doing a third Ghostbusters. In numerous interviews, reports, and an appearance on Good Morning America, he expressed how eager he was to do it. That's why the project finally started moving forward again after years on the backburner.
He even reprised the role for a video game, of all things.

Now, all of a sudden, this is being reported. I'm beginning to wonder if he's bipolar

Why does he hate it so much in the first place? It's not some crazy character or anything.

Because it would please people on the internet, and everybody hates people on the internet.

If he was willing to do TWO Garfield films, he should reprise the role of Venkman.

The reason the movie never got made in the 90s was him. He was able to block production, and didn't cooperate at all. He wanted nothing to do with it, so they gave up.
At the time, I think he was going through his "serious actor" phase and didn't want anything to do with silly things like Ghostbusters and his old SNL/National Lampoon's buddies. He was in with the Wes Anderson crowd.
But in recent years he started to do more kids movies and cameos, and eventually Ghostbusters 3 came back to life.

I have been following the development of this movie since a time where my only internet access was Web TV at my grandparent's house.

Check out what he said at the end of this interview a few weeks ago -

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I know it's a joke, but he told that same story in another interview, and in all seriousness, it was probably those people who gave him the "Get over it Pal" look when he was singing the Ghostbusters theme that caused him to change his mind again. And others like that. Rich snobs. And it just hit something in him, and made him worry that, that is how he will come across if he did another Ghostbusters, and he doesn't want that image.

Shoot, those people who looked at him probably had never even seen the Ghostbusters films, and were just being snobby pricks.


On the otherhand, if the whole movie is just suppose to be some lame "pass the torch" flick, then I agree with Bill about not doing it. I rather it be the old-school ghostbusters coming back, and kicking some ass.

I would argue that he should get over doing guest spots in movies like City of Ember and make a movie that the masses want

The thing is, if the movie bombs, those people will turn on Bill.

Ghostbusters 3 will not bomb. Even if it was blasted critically, it would still have a massive box office

Yeah what? Ghostbusters would make a ton of money. And Murray has way too much credibility for his reputation to get hurt by being in a movie that fails, critically.

He was in Garfield 2: A Tale of Two Kitties. Ghostbusters 3 could be the worst movie ever made, and he will still be a legend because he's Bill Murray.

Nobody in their right mind is going to look down on him, or the other members of the cast, for coming back to do this movie and give it a try. People have always loved Ghostbusters, and it's really been underdone. It's not like they're beating a dead horse or bleeding it dry.

Hope they don't fuck with the formula, new writers usally means people that want to change shit thats been established just for the sake of changing it. Hopefully ecto goes back to what it was in the original and they don't fuck with the look of the proton packs or trap. Be interesting to see if they could somehow bring back Stay Puft, probably the best known "evil" character of the franchise.

That would probably be Slimer, who would more than likely be a guarunteed cameo

Well, remember, it's been about 20 years since the game's story (set in 91). It'd be stupid as hell to have a 1970s Ecto.

Also, while I've said they should keep the streams exactly as they were in the original, I'd expect there to be more than a few upgrades to the equipment, including streamlining the look. This, of course, assumes that they've been active for the last 20 years. For all we know the story could be that they went out in the mid-90s and have to get the old equipment out of storage because of a crisis.

I don't think they should change the ecto. It's a 1950s Cadillac ambulance. It's just as out of date now as it was in 1984. I think it's so iconic that is should stay

Everybody can relax, we found the car...

http://www.wrtfd.org/images/apparatu...0ambulance.jpg

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Is the Ecto 1A/B the Ecto 1 upgraded or an entirely different car in canon? Because they have 1B in the game, which looks pretty similar to 1A from GB2.

If it's Ecto-1, logically they should never go back.

They should make a cartoon movie from the game for those of us who don't have or play games.

They should just CGI the whole game.

But really, you could just look up the cut scenes plus play throughs of the major boss battles on YouTube. It'd be basically the same.

I think it's the same car. It's all beat up and broke down at the beginning of 2, but then they refurbish it I assumed. I always figured the A and B were just to sound cool/signify an update.
I mean, they picked an old ambulance in the movie because it's all they could afford/was the right size. I'm sure they're not going out and finding rare antique cars and fixing them up. If they were introducing new cars, I think it would be something more modern.


In the cartoon, new vehicles always had a higher number.

On another note: It's been a very long time since I've seen either of the Ghostbusters movies, and all this Ghostbusters talk has gotten me in the mood for some classic 80's cinema. Probably gonna watch the original tonight, and the sequel too at some point this weekend maybe.

Meant to be upgraded though in reality its an entirely different car. Never liked ecto1-a, just looks like they went to town slapping on multicolour lights anywhere there was room for them. Ended up looking more like a disco mobile. =/


1-b looked more like the original but retained the yellow\black stripes of 1-a. Lights etc got toned down as well to what it was originally.


What id love to know is why there was never a release of GB2 featuring the Louis\Slimer encounter in the firehouse. In the comic Louis went to town trying to trap slimer when he discovered him in the firehouse. You actually see a small piece of this in GB2 in the credits where you see slimer in a rear view mirror, in the comic Louis was wearing this when on the prowl for slimer. Seems like they filmed at least some of it and the effects but its never been in any release. :mad:

Looks like it was all removed just so you see Louis at the end putting on the proton pack like its first time, when in the comic he had prior experience with it.

There are a ton of deleted scenes from Ghostbusters 2 and none of them have yet to see the light of day

Seems strange why theyve never been released, even the bluray versions don't have them yet deleted scenes from gb1 are on dvd and bluray.

Wonder if something happened the film and the removed scenes got lost or destroyed? I remember reading about one scene in GB1 where a cop tries to give ecto a parking ticket and it bursts into flames when he places it on the car, also the red device on top was supposed to follow the cop around the car as he was walking along. Never seen that one though. :nono:

There's a blu ray version of Ghostbusters 2?

They're not destroyed. People have asked for ages and it's really just a matter of it not being worth the money for them to restore or whatever.
Ghostbusters 2 itself hardly gets a dvd release. I didn't even know it was on Blu Ray yet. I don't think it is. When the first film came out, it didn't.
It only got one dvd release in the first gen. It had next to no special features. Even the first film hasn't seen a lot in the way of special features and dvd releases.

I've seen little clips or screencaps of some of them. Some of the footage used in the trailers wasn't in the final cut.
There's also little clips from an old "making of" special, which show scenes being filmed that aren't in the final cut of the film. They're not the actual film though, but behind the scenes angles.

It's all very minimal. Like 2 or 3 seconds if that. If you hunt on youtube, or go to SpookCentral.com you may find them.
Or protoncharging.net. Those are the old sites I remember going to

Was just looking for it, apparently Sony announced it would be a double release of GB1 and 2 for bluray but only ended up releasing the original.

http://www.ecto-web.org/~spookcentra...eted10-02a.jpg

lol

Yea that's how I remembered it. It's just indicative of how they've treated the whole franchise on dvd, let alone the second.
Even the first one on Blu Ray, though cool, doesn't have much to offer other than the movie.
Before that all there was were the bare releases from 1999.

How does something as big as Ghostbusters not see special edition DVD releases? There's a ton of special features they could do for each, and people would buy them. Almost every movie that comes out these days has 2 discs of crap. There are far less popular and marketable movies with better DVDs. I don't get it

Dunno, ever since GB2 the franchise just seems to be treated like a bastard stepchild. Literally in the case of the ectomobiles which were allowed to lay and rot on the Sony backlot, i know the original has been restored, ecto1-a was also meant to be getting a restoration but as far as i remember that was put on the backburner.

I still love Bill Murray in spite of Garfield.

DAMMIT I just want my Ghostbusters 3 movie.

I WANT GHOSTBUSTERS.

Give it to me.

:y:

This thread is over four years old, and still no solid news.

How so? When it started you were looking for the script that got canned in the mid-90s. Since then there have been interviews with all the cast members saying they want to do it, and confirmation from the studio that they are moving ahead with production and writing a new script.

There has not been any confirmation, just rumours, speculation and provisionals. It has still never officially got the green light.

And rumours/speculation about Ghostbusters 3 have been swirling since the late 90s, so its not like I was bringing it up out of the blue.

True, but they have never been swirling like this. Finally Columbia Tristar wants to make the movie, not just Aykroyd.

Well, in 1998 they were in pre-production with an official green light I believe.

Things went tits up, but the Hellbent script has been around since the mid 90s, as have the rumours of GB3. So I wasn't just pulling it out of the clear blue sky, I think it was due to the latest round of rumours (at that time) that got me interested in seeing the script.

Love how this thread returns once a year, every year, for a month or two.

I was 15 when this thread started :D

I feel old.

Wow, I can't believe it's four years. I also can't believe that 2006 doesn't sound that long ago to me. Then again, 2001 kinda hung in there for me for a while too.