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Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3
bowman9991 writes "Dan Aykroyd reveals that all the original cast have now signed on for Ghostbusters 3, including Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson. Apparently Bill Murray, who holds a one-fifth controlling interest, was very reluctant at first, not even willing to read a third draft of Aykroyd's script. Aykroyd would like to see Ivan Reitman or Harold Ramis direct, wants to introduce a 'new generation' of Ghostbusters, and believes they could be filming the new Ghostbuster movie by winter."
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I hope its as good as Blues Brothers 2000.
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Can't wait!
I'm all for Ghostbusters 3, but I don't understand this idea to put the original cast in it. They left Schwarzenegger out of Terminator 4 for a reason. Harrison Ford looked like a bad casting job in the latest Indiana Jones.
Seeing a bunch of guys in their 60s doing action/adventure stuff won't cut it for me, I don't think. It's just a mis-match of the phases of human life and the plot of the story. Running around doing crazy shit is a young person's thing; a story where the cast is middle-aged should have the plot that involves the drama that a middle aged person gets involved in -- kids, grandkids, getting old, missed opportunities, rectifying relationships, taking on responsiblities, coming to terms with your life, etc.
I think the baby boomers represented the great consumerist generation, and the marketers are trying to squeeze the last dollars out of this demographic.
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Will Rick Moranis be coming out of retirement for this one?
At least they finally made up their minds.
I remember when they first decided to make a new one, then scrapped the movie in favor of a video game... some of us are still haunted by the original ghostbusters games.
Either 1) spin off and have a new cast, (ST:TNG), or 2) completely reboot, (The new Star Trek Movie). I vote for number 2. Maybe that is which Bill Murray is reluctant to agree to your cheeseball "introduction".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCHFVTQKqdQ I welcome our childhood memory destroying overlords.
...and reboot the series. Then they could get Clive Barker or John Carpenter to direct.
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
Is this true?!
Will there also be a live action tv series spinoff like a lot of films?
Someone's already created a rather good intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBQi9LHIzbA
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With ghosts? Hell, may as well have Wilford Brimley sign on if he can get some time away from filming Diabeetus ads.
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So what does Bill Murray have against the rest of the cast -- Dan in particular -- anyway?
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Please, don't let the 'new generation of Ghostbusters' consist of a goth girl, a hispanic guy, a guy in a wheelchair, and black mechanic.
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The movie should be in 3D with a slime projector aimed at the audience.
Why are they doing this? What burning ghost-related questions remain unanswered? Will they at least cross the streams for real?
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Better ship first week in October.
Rumors make it sound like a, "passing of the torch" movie.
Wasn't that what the Ghostbusters cartoons were for?
If you're not going to feature the original actors from start to finish, fuck it.
Just like the backed up semen we all have for Duke Nukem Forever, I bet GB3 will start with some cutsy circle jirking like drama with the original cast for under 30 minutes, followed by some type of revamped Charmed type bullshit.
As exciting as it may sound, I wouldn't get your hopes up.
Iron Man was great because it gave 40-somethings an action hero *THEY* can relate to.
Not your typical, whiny, prissy-haired Generation-Y superhero who between fighting bad guys (like "Eco Man" and "The Recycler") shops and uses his iPhone to update his Twitter feed: "kckd butt yo lol lawl in4a!"
If GhostBusters 3 gives 60-somethings an action hero they can relate to (Because Indy 4 sure as hell didn't), good for them!
Hurray!
Yes, I'm quite tempted to join in with your such vocal enthusiasm!
Usually I'd be cynical. After all, I saw Ghostbusters II at the cinema and I still have the scars to prove it... yeah, it was THAT bad!
However Bill Murray who has gone on to reasonable success wants in. He's certainly earned enough money so he doesn't HAVE to do it. So maybe, just maybe it'll be decent.
So hell yeah, let's be vocally enthusiastic and optimistic...
Hurray!
They are planning a whole new gritty visual realism including a new ecoplasmic lens flare.
Oh no! Save yourselves! New York is being attacked by an 80 foot Ed Koch!
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I hate seeing sequels to classic films decades after the originals. It's either shameless exploitation or a well intentioned, and sad, attempt by the director and stars to relive their glory days.
But the original Ghostbusters was lighthearted, moderately enjoyable Hollywood schlock. At worst, Ghostbusters 3 will be less enjoyable Hollywood schlock.
So have they managed to find the ghost of John Belushi yet? ;) Or has he been, um, busted?
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Terminator "4", Ghostbuster 3, Radiers 4, Batman 1,244 etc etc.... All hollywood knows how to do these days is take the same old worn out theme, slap on a fresh coat of paint and throw it up there. At least the "new" Star Trek "reboot" had a different cast!
Bobby Brown is back I'm sold
It's my prerogative
It's gonna stink on ice. It's going to feel like Star Trek and Indy IV, actors we love and respect acting like paunchy, 45 yr old high school football stars trying to hit on hot young thangs at the bar. Jesus, you were good twenty years ago but it's over now, show some fucking dignity and let it rest. But no, they won't. Even if I don't see the movie I'll be traumatized just from the sheer weight of hype out there.
You know what the sad thing is? Ghostbusters 2 was an awful movie but, honestly, the first one wasn't very good either. The premise is still great, that holds up all these years later, but the damn thing was just so underwritten. As a first draft it's fine but there needed to be more punch in the dialog, more oomph per minute. I saw it about six months back after not having seen it since it first came out, my strongest memories from the cartoon. (Collect Call of Cthulhu? You guys rawked). While I missed out on all the sexual subtext as a kid (and didn't realize Akroyd was getting a spectral blowjob), I also didn't realize just how creepy Murray came across. He's the skeezy sexual harassment guy.
Ah, well. It's not like common sense or good taste has ever turned Hollywood off from a project.
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This "passing the torch" idea is bad. Those who relate to the cast aren't going to relate to the new team and if they go forward in new GB flicks, you'll lose the generation that remembers the original. Then you have a heavy burden: make the movie SO good you WANT to know where the new team goes next. That's a tall order and the odds are against you.
I'm not saying they'll do it this way, but I could see how this COULD be done well... Picture this: Old Ghostbusters had hung up their stuff, along comes this new tragedy. The old guys attempt to go out and fail miserably, only to be saved by this new generation. Sort of like what Indiana Jones ATTEMPTED to do with his son, but failed. Imagine Indy Jones if most of the action had focused around his son... Remember the Last Crusade with Henry Jones. Sean Connery actually played the old hero out for his last gig well, why couldn't Ghostbusters be the same deal?
Just curious, will Rick Moranis be involved? Last I heard he quit acting to spend time with his kids - by no means a dishonorable thing, in fact I laud him for that. Still, would be nice to see the WHOLE original cast back.
The phone rings and a desperate call, but the team is already engaged and Rick Moranis is left to answer the call. Attempting to prove himself worthy of being a Ghostbuster, he goes alone to encounter a demon who sends him back in time several years before the original Gozer encounter. Rick does get some action with Sigourney Weaver this time, but some other things go horribly wrong. But there is plenty of action and special effects, and by the end of the movie the team is formed albeit with some slight changes. Ghostbusters Headquarters looks like the Apple Store. Complete with Macbook Pros. And lens flare. Lots of lens flare.
Who are the ghosts and who are the nearly-dead actors?
Excellent reasoning...
Just like George Lucas had "reasonable" success. He'd certainly earned enough money that he didn't need to do the Star Wars prequels. So the fact that he did them is part of the reason they were so...hang on...something is wrong with this train of thought
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Except that Murray has a tendency to also be in some really crappy movies.
is the Buckaroo Banzi films. WITH the original cast....
Still waiting hopefully...
THird best line in the movie: The answer Lithgow gave the general..."It's not my G-D planet, Monkey Boy!".
Followed closely by
"Where are we going to go?
Home (says the Greek chorus...)
When are we going to leave?
Real soon now...."
and the big winner:
"Wherever you go, there you are!"
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Bill Murray went through a terrible divorce last year where he lost a significant amount of his wealth. And sure, he was in Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Broken Flowers, etc. but he we also the voice of Garfield. So it's not like he's above taking a big, fat paycheck to make a turd.
Everyone is thinking about this wrong. You say Harrison Ford in Crystal Skull didn't work because he was too old. That since this is a comedy anyways, what could be more amusing than watching a bunch of 60 year olds break their backs just putting on their backup, and that's before they run into the 20 year old ghost.
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No middle ground on this one. No negotiation. The verdict will be unanimous.
Oh, and Dan Aykroyd better start doing crunches, and I mean NOW.
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Okay, I'm totally being a pedant. Sorry.
I wonder what kind of car will they be riding now?
Say it isn't so! No Dan, NOOOOOOOH!
I'm melting, I'm melting.
Ah, the torture.
Think of the children Dan, think of the children! Save them from yourself!
No wonder my parents didn't want me seeing movies!
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You mean George Lucas managed to persuade Harrison Ford to work with him on the great scripts he came up with for Indiana Jones 4 and the Star Wars prequels, even though Ford had gone on to reasonable success...
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Hrm,
seems to me that nobody has mentioned the upcoming game coming out featuring the Ghostbusters as well.
Anyone consider whether the game is marketing for the movie, movie for the game, or neither nor?
This is interesting considering in recent interviews, Aykroyd has been quoted as saying that the new Ghostbusters game is actually the rumored third movie. Don't get me wrong, I do love me some Ghostbusters, but I just think this is the Duke Nukem Forever of movies.
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After all, I saw Ghostbusters II at the cinema and I still have the scars to prove it... yeah, it was THAT bad!
You're on crack. Ghostbusters II was fucking awesome! I'm serious, what the hell do people have against that movie? It's only ever come off as more of the same formula (ie, what a sequel should be) to me.
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Instead of seeing geriatrics trying to act like they're still 30, why not a "re-boot" written by Ramis and Aykroyd and featuring none of the original cast? Well, maybe Rick Moranis can show up as a ghost or something.
I would be much more excited by this than seeing Bill Murray pass the proverbial torch to a younger generation that he probably spent the entire movie abusing anyhow.
Ghostbusters II wasn't that bad. It didn't manage to be as good as the original, but come on:
"Let's see what happens when we take away the puppy."
Are you above making a big fat paycheck?
And the audience for Garfield thought it was great. Its just that the target audience was a lot younger than you. In fact, my son, who is 6, thought the Garfield movie was fantastic and forced me to watch it over, and over, and over, and over, and...
There is a reason why children's movies are aimed at children.
Face it, the movie will do well over its nostalgia but it'll be shit. Ghostbusters 2 was shit and all this is about is fact someone, like George Lucas, wants to sell more toys.
Bill Murray went through a terrible divorce last year where he lost a significant amount of his wealth. And sure, he was in Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Broken Flowers, etc. but he we also the voice of Garfield. So it's not like he's above taking a big, fat paycheck to make a [b]children's movie[/b].
Fixed that for you.
Remember, children's movies don't have to be good to appease the kiddies.
Apparently Bill Murray, who holds a one-fifth controlling interest
Look, Bill Murray has CLEARLY demonstrated that can maintain control after one fifth.
It takes at least three of them to make him drive his golf cart around city streets.
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So it's not like he's above taking a big, fat paycheck to make a turd.
nor would i be...
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Hold on. let me run this by you: Ghostbusters 3 starring Steve Martin and only Steve Martin. Maybe a cameo by Martin Lawrence for the hell of it.
How about we make both Steve Martin and Martin Lawrence members of the new Ghostbusters team - and then round out the cast with Chris Tucker and Rob Schneider?
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A brand new sequel to a movie whose last installment came out twenty years ago. This is great news! What could possibly go wrong?
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Wow! this could be as good as Red Dwarf Back to Earth! ...oh, wait, that was terrible.
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Have you seen either of the Garfield movies? Are you a fan of the cartoon?
Of course, due to their age the original cast will be returning as the ghosts instead of as the busters.
... I could actually see a Ghostbusters "reboot" working out with new guys like Paul Rudd, Seth Rogan, Jason Segal, and Sean William Scott.
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Do they really think we want to see a bunch of old fat old farts trying to upstage the expensive but super cheezy digital effects with 20 year old gags?
You went to Utah and someone battered your twinkie, and all you can say is "you're lucky"?
They don't have to suck, either.
Are they playing the ghosts this time?
Table-ized A.I.
Please, let me know when Pixar learns how to animate something that isn't instantly annoying. I love that they use Billy West to interview so they can tape him and use what he came up with in order to teach Big Name Movie Stars what to sound like. Then not use him or pay him.
I am not, nor have I ever been, fond of Pixar.
I've been there, know people there, but the work they do sucks great big donkey dick.
I didn't mean to sound disparaging towards Bill Murray. I *wish* I was in the position that I could make a Garfield movie. But Garfield was a crappy movie, kids movie or not. I'd ruin the Pink Panther franchise quicker than Steve Martin if given the opportunity, but they're still shitty movies. The idea that Bill Murray is above taking a fat paycheck to make a movie that isn't good is laughable. He likes money as much as anybody else.
The long-awaited sequel Ghostbusters III is in preproduction, said the dribbling ass of Dan Aykroyd's career.
"All the original cast have signed back up," said Aykroyd. "Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson and of course Bill Murray. ... When I say signed up, I don't mean on paper, in any committed sense. But, you know. They've 'signed up,'" he said, making air quotes.
"Bill was a little reluctant. Something about 'rather drink crossed streams of my own piss.' But a few dumptrucks full of cash backed up to his house should see him fully committed. Hopefully."
Murray, who owns a controlling interest in the franchise, has thrown out Aykroyd's original script, insisting one by Charlie Kaufman be used instead, in which failed parapsychologists in their sixties chasing emotion-absorbing slime controlled by the Sumerian god of destruction through the existential caverns of their own minds as they attempt to reconstruct their lives and careers. And fail.
"This is the best and most original idea in Hollywood this year," said Aykroyd. "It'll leave Blues Brothers 2000 in the dust."
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Having suffered through Lost in Translation, I can't imagine that Garfield was worse.
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Are you above making a big fat paycheck?
And the audience for Garfield thought it was great. Its just that the target audience was a lot younger than you. In fact, my son, who is 6, thought the Garfield movie was fantastic and forced me to watch it over, and over, and over, and over, and...
There is a reason why children's movies are aimed at children.
Hey, at least he didn't stop at certain parts of the movie and rewind to watch them again a billion times in a row...
Harrison Ford worked with Lucas on the scripts for Star Warts I, II, and III? Ow. My brain hurts.
Schwarzenegger and Ford would look out of place for a reason: because they are making sequels of a role they have enacted themselves before.
There is no reason whatsoever why older people could not do action roles. It is the simplistic view of some moviemakers that you have to conform to whatever age you are and follow the tired stereotypes.
In all honestly lots of the "action" movies nowadays lack lots of substance, because you simply cant believe that somebody in his 20s will have the responsibility to save the world, the free world or even his town.
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