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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Can we

[lawpoop]

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.

Re:Can we

[binarylarry]

You really considered the original ghostbusters movies action adventure flicks?

Re:Can we

[rishistar]

Seeing a bunch of guys in their 60s doing action/adventure stuff won't cut it for me, I don't think.

Ghostbusters doesn't really have action sequences though in the same way that Indiana Jones did. The biggest action sequence was probably them running ut of the library.

Re:Can we

[Kamokazi]

While I agree with you for Indiana and Terminator, Ghostbusters is different. It's a comedy/action movie. Who the hell can replace Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd?

Re:Can we

[MichaelSmith]

If the new Pink Panther movies are any guide, nobody.

Re:Can we

[lawpoop]

I don't know, it ended with some kind of lightning battle with an interdimensional god and a giant Stay Puft marshmallow man on the New York skyline... what category does that normally go in?

Re:Can we

[penguin_dance]

If anyone cares to notice, we're all recalling the original Ghostbusters which was great. That's because the Ghostbusters II (which also had the original cast) SUCKED big time!

Unfortunately, I think this may be a case of, "Hey none of us are getting gigs, let's do a remake!"

Sometimes you can't go back. {sigh} But I hope I'm wrong.

Re:Can we

[The Snowman]

Did you miss the lightning battle at the end of the movie with some interdimensional god and a giant Stay Puft Marshmallow man? If that's not an action sequence, what is it?

The end of the movie was just them walking around, making jokes, holding and aiming props. When I think of Indiana Jones I think of outrunning a massive boulder, fighting Nazies on tanks, etc. Ghostbusters was nothing like that. It was a drama.

Re:Can we

[Have Brain Will Rent]

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 responsibilities, coming to terms with your life, etc.

Wow you need to know some different old people. In his 60's my Dad was travelling the world. Malaysia, Australia, The Alps, India... at his funeral (in his 70's) my sister and I found out he had three girlfriends at the time he died (no, that wasn't the cause :). At one point one of them took me aside and told me how while taking a break during sex she had ridden him naked around the living room and patio...

Re:Can we

[cashman73]

They left Schwarzenegger out of Terminator 4 for a reason.

The reason being that Arnold is a tad occupied with being the Governor of California at the moment,...

Re:Can we

[SethJohnson]

Everything Lurker says about those people is spot on. He's missing any commentary on Akroyd who is DESPERATE for money. So much so that he played the Dad in Britney Spears' movie, Crossroads. Murray resisted because he didn't want to let Akroyd rape the legacy of Ghostbusters like he did with Blues Brothers (2000).

Harold Ramis is the most successful of all, and I can only imagine the reason he would particpate is out of charity to Dan Akroyd.

Seth

Re:Can we

[Have Brain Will Rent]

That last sentence, was just not something I would like to hear at a funeral.

I can understand why you feel you would not want to hear that. The lady (and she was) certainly knew my sister wouldn't be able to handle it but somehow figured out that I would enjoy hearing it. Perhaps it was that I had flown in from several thousand miles away and she knew we would almost certainly never meet again. Perhaps it was because she was in shock - too long a story to explain why but she only found out about his death and funeral the day before the service - and grieving and it helped her cope with that grief to be able to share it.

I think she knew it would help me. My father had grown up in the Great Depression (and anybody who thinks the current situation is anywhere near as bad as that is deluded). His father died before he was 10. He fought on the ground in WWII and saw things he would never discuss with me or anyone else. In action his back was injured and he suffered chronic pain and reduced mobility for the next 30 years. His fighter pilot brother crashed and burned somewhere over Europe during WWII. As a result his mother killed herself. He was in a loveless and painful marriage to my mother and stayed in it until my sister and I were both out of the home. He supported his family by working in a job he literally came to hate long before he could leave it when my sister and I were gone. Mom had worked once my sister and I were in school, and was fully capable of supporting herself, but when he left her he gave up everything - house, furniture, car etc. - and paid Mom support in order to make sure Mom didn't go without - all without a court or lawyer forcing him. Medicine had advanced and he got his back fixed and at age 55 started over with nothing.

A lot of what that means you don't get until you are older and can really start to understand. One of my favorite sayings goes something like "When I was a teenager I was always embarrassed at how completely ignorant and stupid my father was. In my late twenties I was shocked to see how much smarter he had become." Despite all that he lived through Dad was a gentle and scrupulously honest man who thought about right and wrong and tried to live his life by that. Hundreds of people came to his funeral including people he had worked with and mentored 30 years before.

I was really glad to see my Dad able to find some happiness and joy in the latter part of his life. If anyone deserved it he sure did and I had been telling his girlfriend this because she had been worried how the family might react to finding out about her. I think part of why she told me what she did was to let me know what he had found with her. And what's the big deal? They'd had sex. They were naked. He got on his hands and knees to pick something up and spur of the moment she playfully got on his back. They played and they had fun... hearing about that made me happy.

I understand your desire not to hear that and it is certainly your right and nothing wrong with that at all. So none of this is aimed at you but some of the other reactions involving knives and "brain bleach" betray a serious problem - with age, with sex, with parents... I don't know which - maybe all. But the people saying stuff like that really ought to examine why they have such reactions. It's said nobody likes to think of their parents or teachers as having sex. Why? They are, after all, completely human. Even if they are gasp old.

Many people here think nothing of saying things like "put it in retard mode for the senior citizens" and other similar comments. The bigotry aimed at age is no more acceptable than if it was aimed at race. If anything it is worse because those old people have lived and experienced far more than the bigots and they deserve respect. They used to get it in our society and it's ugly that that has, for some reason, changed.

Re:Gee

[Zouden]

I can't wait to see who they're going to cast as the annoying kid ghostbuster, complete with mini-backpack.

I hear Jessica Biel is going to play the kick-ass female ghostbuster who doesn't take crap from nobody - but is she falling for the hunky new ghostbuster (Shia LaBeouf)?

Re:Gee

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

I hear Jessica Biel is going to play the kick-ass female ghostbuster who doesn't take crap from nobody - but is she falling for the hunky new ghostbuster (Shia LaBeouf)?

Make it R-rated with Lindsay Lohan falling for the kick-ass female ghostbuster and I'll go see it! Or at least download it from the pirate-bay!

Speak for yourself, Sonny

[CuteSteveJobs]

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!

Re:Does hollywood have any originality left?

[mosherkl]

C'mon. At least of the 6 major Batman movies, 4 of them were decent or good (I'm sorry, but Batman & Robin and Batman Forever SUCKED!). Did you even SEE The Dark Knight? Hardly slapping on a fresh coat of paint and slapping it up there. And nevermind that Batman Begins WAS basically a "reboot" for the franchise.

And it's not necessarily originality that's lacking in Hollywood. It's the fact that original, high profile, big budget pictures tend to elicit quite a following if they're at least decent, and this causes sequels to be "big" as well simply because people who liked the first (or second, or tenth) will come see the next simply out of curiousity. Repeat ad nauseum.

Re:Ah, Ghostbusters...

[kungfugleek]

One line that's been going through my head recently in light of the depressing economy...

"If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe in anything you say."

Re:Last

[innocence18]

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

Re:I'm putting on my psychic hat

[TheRaven64]

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

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the role Bill Murray plays best?