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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Gee

[QuantumG]

I hope its as good as Blues Brothers 2000.

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

[Grimbleton]

DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS.

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!

Re:Gee

[dargon]

Actually, Dan Ackroyd likes Alyssa Milano and Eliza Dushku http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/05/dan-aykroyd-says-ghostbusters-3-may-start-filming-in-winter.html

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

[MichaelSmith]

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 am 43 and I spend more time running around doing crazy shit than I did when I was 20 years younger, mainly because I have the money and time now, and my seven year old son has similar tastes in crazy shit (or is learning too, anyway).

But yeah, Bill Murray wants to move on, maybe the others should as well. Maybe they won't be there in the fourth if it gets made.

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

[sayfawa]

Either we have very different definitions of "crazy shit" or your seven year old does way too much booze and drugs for his age.

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]

My idea of crazy shit is closer to the Ghost Busters idea of crazy shit.

Re:Can we

[MichaelSmith]

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

Re:Can we

[rubycodez]

your son is way too young to be running around with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator strapped to his back

Re:Can we

[MichaelSmith]

your son is way too young to be running around with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator strapped to his back

Now they tell me.

Re:Can we

[Junior J. Junior III]

Maybe the original cast could be the ghosts.

Besides, Ghostbusters isn't really an action film. It's a comedy with some effects.

Re:Can we

[GaryOlson]

Who the hell can replace Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd?

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker? Chris tucker distracts Cuthulu with a continuous rant on Cuthulu's personal hygene and Jackie stunt fights thru the reanimated denizens of the Netherworld in a proton accelerated tuxedo.

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

[_KiTA_]

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?

Acid Trip.

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

[squidfood]

I think he was referring to things like strange noises at night, doors opening and closing, food missing from the fridge...

...cats and dogs sleeping together...

Re:Can we

[gnick]

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...

Damn it man, can't you preface that with a [Spoiler Alert]?!? It's still in my Netflix queue...

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

[lawpoop]

I guess so, but I thought a 'drama' was some kind of emotional denouement -- like a soap opera, like the end of Six Sense, where we find out that Bruce Willis always loved his wife.

Re:Can we

[HeronBlademaster]

There is (or at least, there should be) a five year limit to how long after a movie comes out it's required to preface spoilers with a warning. That's enough time for the movie to go from theaters to crappy network stations.

Books, on the other hand, shouldn't have that limit. It's hard to go through books as quickly as movies.

Re:Can we

[HeronBlademaster]

I thought that was the end of Unbreakable.

Re:Can we

[LurkerXXX]

"Hey none of us are getting gigs, let's do a remake!"

Yeah, they are all just desperate for work...

Just take Bill Murray for example. In the past 5 years he's only got 12 projects listed on the Internet Movie Database

Including :

The Darjeeling Limited 67% fresh on Rotton Tomatoes

The City of Ember

Get Smart

Broken Flowers 87% fresh

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

That's a struggling actor not getting gigs?

Sigourney Weaver? Bah, she only has 18 film projects listed since 2004. And lots of TV gigs. LOTS. That's hardly working in the world of LA actors though, right? Oh.

Harold Ramis? Well, he's sure slowed down in his writing, but he's been acting a little (Knocked Up,Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, etc), a little producing, a little directing (a few episodes of The Office, etc). It looks like he's picking and choosing and having fun, not really struggling for projects.

Re:Can we

[inviolet]

your son is way too young to be running around with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator strapped to his back

It just occurred to me, we've never had a completely successful test of this equipment.

Re:Can we

[evanbd]

You know, I've looked and looked, but there simply isn't a nuclear accelerator licensing agency listed in the yellow pages.

Re:Can we

[exley]

No no no... Dogs and cats, living together... MASS HYSTERIA!

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

[MaskedSlacker]

Burn. In. Hell.

Re:Can we

[PachmanP]

There is (or at least, there should be) a five year limit to how long after a movie comes out it's required to preface spoilers with a warning. That's enough time for the movie to go from theaters to crappy network stations.

Books, on the other hand, shouldn't have that limit. It's hard to go through books as quickly as movies.

Harry killed Gandalf! My God, it's full of stars. The white whale gets away, but gets caught again for Free Moby 2 through 17. The yerks take over the world and have love children with the g'ould. The Pope is actually an alien, and Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are the Illuminati.

That said it was a good book, and you should read it anyway.

Re:Can we

[HeronBlademaster]

Dude... I was totally going to read Harry RingGate: DaVinci in Black, but you ruined the ending for me! Now what am I going to do?

(Incidentally, it's spelled "goa'uld". If you're going to make nerdy comments, at least check your spelling ;)

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

[iJusten]

They're going to resurrect him in the sequel. After all, he's the most popular guy in the franchise.

Re:Can we

[Omestes]

My personal fave is Rye Hard, the story of Bruce Willis and his affable side-kick Moisha, a Jewish baker-slash-deli-owner, and their quest to save the world from Islamofascism and the horrors of white bread.

Re:Can we

[TheRaven64]

I think I'm going to bookmark this post, and reread it whenever I worry about getting old...

Re:Can we

[Whalou]

Books, on the other hand, shouldn't have that limit. It's hard to go through books as quickly as movies.

Get a better shredder.

Re:Can we

[Alzheimers]

Dr. Peter Venkman ..... Eddie Murphy
Dr. Ray Stantz ........ Eddie Murphy
Dr. Egon Spengler ..... Eddie Murphy
Winston Zedmore ....... Arsenio Hall

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.

A poltergeist stole my dentures

[Anonymous Coward]

Ghostbusters 3: Haunted Retirement Community

Re:First Proton Pack!

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

First Proton Pack!
Oops... I mean post.

It's first ghost.

Stupid zone-dweebie.

Re:Points for whoever gets it...

[2.7182]

"Yes, you honor, it is true. This man has no dick."

Ah, Ghostbusters...

[FlyingSquidStudios]

In troubled times, I often like to say to myself the immortal words of Mr. Ray Parker, Jr. who said, and I quote, "bustin' makes me feel good."

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."

Please, please, do NOT....

[Conspiracy_Of_Doves]

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.

Re:Please, please, do NOT....

[Yvan256]

This sounds more like a script for an episode of Family Guy or South Park.

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:Speak for yourself, Sonny

[Cadallin]

Wait, so Ghostbusters is the new Matlock?

Re:Last

[telchine]

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!

Does hollywood have any originality left?

[p51d007]

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!

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.

reboot

[cstacy]

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.

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

Is this true?

[Totenglocke]

Yes your honor, this man has no dick.

Re:Last

[bogjobber]

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.

Re:Rick Moranis?

[k-macjapan]

After some quick googling it would appear that Moranis will be returning to acting for this movie.

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/04/ghostbusters-ii.html

In April of 2009, Entertainment Weekly's website quoted Harold Ramis as saying that Moranis was indeed on board for the third Ghostbusters movie that Sony Pictures was developing.[5]

Not to be a pedant...

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

...but it's "Aykroyd."

*sigh*

Okay, I'm totally being a pedant. Sorry.

Watchutalkinbout, Willis...

[TiggertheMad]

Buddy, you had better not be talking trash about my homegeek, Wil. He still has some crotch leaches left over from 'Stand By Me' that he saves for naysayers that mention his name with JarJar's...

SHELLFISHCORE 4 LIFE, NICKNAME!

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?