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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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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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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.
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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Seems so. It's going to be *really* hard for this to live up to the hype it's going to generate.
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3) A new dark humor twist. The real name of the movie could be be "(The soon to be ghosts)Busters"
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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Good point. I think Slashdot users should compile a list of sequel cliches that we wouldn't like to see in GhostBusters 3. I'll start off the list: - Don't redo the theme song using some pop music fucktard like Britney Spears or Justin Timberlake.
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!
Gawd, this is why the new one will suck even if its good. Too many good jokes done already.
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!
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!
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.
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.
He ad libbed quite a lot, so he wanted partial writing credit. Or so they say.
The pre-watershed version goes "This man has no twinkie" always made me chuckle. Strange considering I don't know what a twinkie is.
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.
I'm just gonna have to say that Justin can be pretty goddamn funny. He may have gotten rich off of the mediocrity machine but he does the absurd well too.
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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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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.
*sigh*
Okay, I'm totally being a pedant. Sorry.
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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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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.