On July 4, 2012 Dan Akroyd confirmed that Ghostbusters 3 is, in fact, still in development. He also confirmed that there will be a new script written by a new team. On July 10, 2012 it was confirmed that Etan Cohen would be writing the script. Akroyd said of the script that "It's got to be perfect. That's the whole thing. There's no point in doing it unless it's perfect. So that's what we're up to now." Bill Murray said in a June 2012 interview with David Letterman saying that making a very good sequel is hard and that "We'll try again. I'm always dragging my feet on it."[35][36]
Etan Cohen, the screenwriter of Men in Black 3, was recently hired to rewrite the script.
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So from what I can say, I have much higher hopes with this script writer than the previous considering that he has actually written great movies where as the previous guy wrote many duds.
So here's hoping!
Etan Cohen, the screenwriter of Men in Black 3, was recently hired to rewrite the script.
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So from what I can say, I have much higher hopes with this script writer than the previous considering that he has actually written great movies where as the previous guy wrote many duds.
So here's hoping!
Matt
So... it's safe to say, it has yet to give up the ghost?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI
(Sorry!)
-Fred
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI
(Sorry!)
-Fred
Pirates, vampires, zombies, ninjas, ghouls, aliens, goblins, monsters, robots, sorcerers, undead, werewolves, demons, mutated dinosaur-cyborgs and those pesky phone salesmen! The shotgun is a one-size-fits-all solution!
The legend goes on. It's almost on par with Leisure Suit Larry 4!
As much as I've adored Ramis and Akroyd, I'm glad they've given up writing the script on their own. They've been out of tune with pop culture and comedy for more than ten years now, and that's being gentle. Sure Ramis has some funny left in him, and I sure as hell hope he still contributes heavily to this script, but he misses more than he hits nowadays. I don't think he quite grasped what worked so well with Analyse This, as demonstrated by by Analyse That.
I'm not surprised they went with Cohen. For years, they have cited MIB as a form of pop culture evolution of Ghostbusters. They figured that if MIB was around, it meant there was room for Ghostbusters 3. We heard that when the first MIB was released. Hioefully they can come up with something great. As actors, they still have a knack for comedy. Murray is as wild and un-tamable as he's ever been.
As much as I've adored Ramis and Akroyd, I'm glad they've given up writing the script on their own. They've been out of tune with pop culture and comedy for more than ten years now, and that's being gentle. Sure Ramis has some funny left in him, and I sure as hell hope he still contributes heavily to this script, but he misses more than he hits nowadays. I don't think he quite grasped what worked so well with Analyse This, as demonstrated by by Analyse That.
I'm not surprised they went with Cohen. For years, they have cited MIB as a form of pop culture evolution of Ghostbusters. They figured that if MIB was around, it meant there was room for Ghostbusters 3. We heard that when the first MIB was released. Hioefully they can come up with something great. As actors, they still have a knack for comedy. Murray is as wild and un-tamable as he's ever been.
Part-Time Nomad
Fred, you're on a roll.Fred Buer wrote:So... it's safe to say, it has yet to give up the ghost?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI
(Sorry!)
-Fred
Take my wife. Please!
In all seriousness, though. I'm not sure another Ghostbusters has it's place. I bet you yanqui dollars to yanqui donuts, it'll feature Zool's return, internal conflicts between the guys, and a cameo of the stay-puft marshmallow man.
I may just have spoiled the plot, but only because it follows the formula of every tacked-on trilogy ending ever.
Meaning, make one great film. Then decide to capitalize and franchise it, by tacking on two more films and calling it a trilogy. The second one gets to be a new direction entirely. The third goes back to it's roots.
See the first three Die Hard films. Or I dunno. Nolan's Batman trilogy. Or maybe Jurassic Park. Or even ahh never mind you get the point.
There's a cheap formula at work in these situations, and they're usually tugging on heartstrings and pursestrings alike through attempted nostalgia.
Let's end this on a happy note.
What's green and has wheels?
Grass. I lied about the wheels.
Ba-dmm psshhh...
-Fred
In all seriousness, though. I'm not sure another Ghostbusters has it's place. I bet you yanqui dollars to yanqui donuts, it'll feature Zool's return, internal conflicts between the guys, and a cameo of the stay-puft marshmallow man.
I may just have spoiled the plot, but only because it follows the formula of every tacked-on trilogy ending ever.
Meaning, make one great film. Then decide to capitalize and franchise it, by tacking on two more films and calling it a trilogy. The second one gets to be a new direction entirely. The third goes back to it's roots.
See the first three Die Hard films. Or I dunno. Nolan's Batman trilogy. Or maybe Jurassic Park. Or even ahh never mind you get the point.
There's a cheap formula at work in these situations, and they're usually tugging on heartstrings and pursestrings alike through attempted nostalgia.
Let's end this on a happy note.
What's green and has wheels?
Grass. I lied about the wheels.
Ba-dmm psshhh...
-Fred
Pirates, vampires, zombies, ninjas, ghouls, aliens, goblins, monsters, robots, sorcerers, undead, werewolves, demons, mutated dinosaur-cyborgs and those pesky phone salesmen! The shotgun is a one-size-fits-all solution!
Well, I think you may be wrong Fred.
They may go back to its roots, but I don't think it will feature Zool.
What I think they need to do is make the Ghostbusters video game cannon and play off of that. The premise for that story returned to the Ghostbusters one story and also explained why New York was subject to so much paranormal activity in the first place.
I think what they did with the story for that game was brilliant. It needs to be part of the overall story. It worked great for a video game but would note have worked for a movie.
Anyway, here is the story of the game from wikipedia. Spoiler Warning. As you can see, they can't go back to the roots without completely negating the game's story, which I think would be a mistake since it fits so well in the franchise.
Begin Spoiler
The events of the game begin during Thanksgiving Day 1991, two years after the events of Ghostbusters II. The Ghostbusters, now official city contractors, are training a new recruit, whom Dr. Venkman insists they simply call "Rookie", so they don't get too attached, in case something should happen to the new hire while testing out experimental equipment.[24] A large PKE shockwave then hits New York City,[25] and sends the team on a variety of calls to capture ghosts that result from it, including Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.[26] Throughout these calls, they are hounded by Dr. Walter Peck, now head of the Paranormal Contracts Oversight Commission (PCOC, pronounced "peacock") as appointed by Mayor Jock Mulligan, who warns them about causing too much damage in their ghost capturing activities.[27] The Ghostbusters discover through a series of adventures and encounters with museum curator Dr. Ilyssa Selwyn (Alyssa Milano) that Ivo Shandor, the architect who designed 55 Central Park West that was once used to summon Gozer, had also designed a network of tunnels to channel ectoplasmic slime through the city,[28] including specific Shandor-renovated buildings acting as nodes on a mandala, as a means to merge the real world with the Ghost World and bring forth another Great Destructor like Gozer.[29] The Ghostbusters help to destroy the nodes and capture the node guardians at the Sedgewick Hotel, the New York Public Library, and the Museum of Natural History.[30] At the last node in the middle of the Hudson River[31] they discover a mansion on an island rising from the water. As they explore it, they find that the island belonged to Shandor[32] and that Ilyssa is his descendant.[33] They also discover machines pumping the slime into the tunnel network[28] and disable them as well as the final Mandala node, and escape the island just before it sinks back into the water.[34]
When they return to the mainland, the Ghostbusters find that Ilyssa was captured and the Containment Unit shut down, releasing the ghosts, and suspect that Peck has been possessed and is trying to call forth a Great Destructor.[35] A massive mausoleum appears in Central Park and the team fights their way into the central structure.[36] Inside, they find both Ilyssa and Peck chained to walls and discover Mayor Mulligan possessed by Ivo Shandor himself who used Peck as a scapegoat to avoid detection.[37] Shandor reveals that he wishes to take Gozer's place as a god, the latter having failed him twice. The Ghostbusters are able to exorcise Shandor from the Mayor before he can sacrifice Ilyssa as part of a ritual, but are pulled into the Ghost World where they are forced to fight Shandor in his Destructor form, a Satanic being called the Architect.[38] They manage to defeat Shandor by crossing their Proton Streams, and return to the real world, where they rescue Ilyssa, Peck, and the Mayor before the mausoleum collapses.[39]
During the credits, the four original Ghostbusters determine that five of them is just too many for one team, but decide to offer the Rookie a position as the head of a yet-to-be-opened Ghostbusters franchise in another city, setting the game up for a sequel.
End Spoiler
MIB 3, I heard was really great, so I have faith in this guy.
They may go back to its roots, but I don't think it will feature Zool.
What I think they need to do is make the Ghostbusters video game cannon and play off of that. The premise for that story returned to the Ghostbusters one story and also explained why New York was subject to so much paranormal activity in the first place.
I think what they did with the story for that game was brilliant. It needs to be part of the overall story. It worked great for a video game but would note have worked for a movie.
Anyway, here is the story of the game from wikipedia. Spoiler Warning. As you can see, they can't go back to the roots without completely negating the game's story, which I think would be a mistake since it fits so well in the franchise.
Begin Spoiler
The events of the game begin during Thanksgiving Day 1991, two years after the events of Ghostbusters II. The Ghostbusters, now official city contractors, are training a new recruit, whom Dr. Venkman insists they simply call "Rookie", so they don't get too attached, in case something should happen to the new hire while testing out experimental equipment.[24] A large PKE shockwave then hits New York City,[25] and sends the team on a variety of calls to capture ghosts that result from it, including Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.[26] Throughout these calls, they are hounded by Dr. Walter Peck, now head of the Paranormal Contracts Oversight Commission (PCOC, pronounced "peacock") as appointed by Mayor Jock Mulligan, who warns them about causing too much damage in their ghost capturing activities.[27] The Ghostbusters discover through a series of adventures and encounters with museum curator Dr. Ilyssa Selwyn (Alyssa Milano) that Ivo Shandor, the architect who designed 55 Central Park West that was once used to summon Gozer, had also designed a network of tunnels to channel ectoplasmic slime through the city,[28] including specific Shandor-renovated buildings acting as nodes on a mandala, as a means to merge the real world with the Ghost World and bring forth another Great Destructor like Gozer.[29] The Ghostbusters help to destroy the nodes and capture the node guardians at the Sedgewick Hotel, the New York Public Library, and the Museum of Natural History.[30] At the last node in the middle of the Hudson River[31] they discover a mansion on an island rising from the water. As they explore it, they find that the island belonged to Shandor[32] and that Ilyssa is his descendant.[33] They also discover machines pumping the slime into the tunnel network[28] and disable them as well as the final Mandala node, and escape the island just before it sinks back into the water.[34]
When they return to the mainland, the Ghostbusters find that Ilyssa was captured and the Containment Unit shut down, releasing the ghosts, and suspect that Peck has been possessed and is trying to call forth a Great Destructor.[35] A massive mausoleum appears in Central Park and the team fights their way into the central structure.[36] Inside, they find both Ilyssa and Peck chained to walls and discover Mayor Mulligan possessed by Ivo Shandor himself who used Peck as a scapegoat to avoid detection.[37] Shandor reveals that he wishes to take Gozer's place as a god, the latter having failed him twice. The Ghostbusters are able to exorcise Shandor from the Mayor before he can sacrifice Ilyssa as part of a ritual, but are pulled into the Ghost World where they are forced to fight Shandor in his Destructor form, a Satanic being called the Architect.[38] They manage to defeat Shandor by crossing their Proton Streams, and return to the real world, where they rescue Ilyssa, Peck, and the Mayor before the mausoleum collapses.[39]
During the credits, the four original Ghostbusters determine that five of them is just too many for one team, but decide to offer the Rookie a position as the head of a yet-to-be-opened Ghostbusters franchise in another city, setting the game up for a sequel.
End Spoiler
MIB 3, I heard was really great, so I have faith in this guy.
Matt
Your hopes and dreams never factor into the Hollywood money-making business, I'm afraid.
And while I agree the game had some good and original ideas for the overall canon, Hollywood has a long and sordid history of butchering what you love with a rusty cleaver. While you watch, like Malcolm McDowell, as entrails, blood and guts fly all over the room. Filthy, bloated, festering innards of something you loved and cared for land in your hair and food. And what's left is something else entirely. A mutated freak of nature that tries to appeal to everyone for maximum profit, instead of being a work of art.
Don't like my description of how Hollywood operates? Bit too graphic? Well, that's how I feel whenever Hollywood completely butchers something I love.
Let's end this negative thread with something positive. Here's another joke for you:
Who's the patron saint of poverty?
St. Nickel-less. Ba-dmm psshhh!
-Fred
And while I agree the game had some good and original ideas for the overall canon, Hollywood has a long and sordid history of butchering what you love with a rusty cleaver. While you watch, like Malcolm McDowell, as entrails, blood and guts fly all over the room. Filthy, bloated, festering innards of something you loved and cared for land in your hair and food. And what's left is something else entirely. A mutated freak of nature that tries to appeal to everyone for maximum profit, instead of being a work of art.
Don't like my description of how Hollywood operates? Bit too graphic? Well, that's how I feel whenever Hollywood completely butchers something I love.
Let's end this negative thread with something positive. Here's another joke for you:
Who's the patron saint of poverty?
St. Nickel-less. Ba-dmm psshhh!
-Fred
Pirates, vampires, zombies, ninjas, ghouls, aliens, goblins, monsters, robots, sorcerers, undead, werewolves, demons, mutated dinosaur-cyborgs and those pesky phone salesmen! The shotgun is a one-size-fits-all solution!