It’s Slime Time……AGAIN?.

Nice to know you’ve finally caught up with the news from September. In February you’re going to be fascinated by the results of the American election… :)

I’ve kinda kept up with this…

The news that Cliff posted is, indeed, over ten years old. Production on that film was supposed to start in 1999 but they couldn’t get funding (sound familiar?) because Aykroyd expected a much bigger budget than he was allowed. This led to an eventual fall-out with the studio, and they parted ways. As the project progressed, it became clear that Bill Murray would not be involved and, as he had some say over the franchise, would not give the green light for a film to go ahead without him. (Apparently Murray has heat with Harold Ramis stemming back to Groundhog Day, and was also upset with Ghostbusters 2, having claimed that he agreed to the film based on a great concept and when he came to film it, they had written a completely different film altogether than planned).

So the film was just in development hell for many years. Eventually, Aykroyd announced that Murray was now on board, on the proviso that it would be an animated/CGI production. However, there is some confusion here, as it was announced shortly afterwards that Ghostbusters The Video Game was coming out, voiced by the original cast, and it was believed that Aykroyd was actually talking about this as the CGI project, rather than a third GB film.

Then, earlier this year, it was rumoured that a third Ghostbusters film was planned starring Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd and the Judd Apatow gang. Rogen later dismissed this, claiming that a third Ghostbusters film would be terrible (or something to that effect).

Then, in September this year, Columbia signed on Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, who write for the US version of The Office, to write the script for Ghostbusters 3 (with Ramis, Aykroyd and Ivan Reitman consulting). The original cast are all most likely on board, script dependant, except for Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis, who has retired. So the wheels are finally in motion, and we should get Ghostbusters 3 in 2010/11 starring a mix of the original cast and new Busters.

I always thought a live action, weekly one hour Ghostbusters show might be really good, given a decent budget. Maybe the Ghostbusters have expanded over the years and franchised out, and we follow the exploits of one of the franchises… or even New York, with the old GBs retired, maybe popping in for a cameo now and again? Maybe Ernie Hudson could play Winston in a full-time role as the manager of the station… or some shit like that or shit.

I could see Aykroyd and Hudson as regular cast members, but not the others.

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In HD: http://www.protoncharging.com/ghostbusters/media/Ghostbusters360_atari1_h264.mov

Also… http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tu4XVBOTVRE&fmt=18

Yes please

I think now IS the right time for it to come back and not 10-15 years ago. At least CGI is pretty brilliant now, even on a smaller budget, which we can assume GB3 will have compared with, say, Abrams’ Star Trek. They still would have CG’d it to death 10 years ago but it would have been considerably worse.

Even though there’s obviously going to be a younger cast involved (people like Ben Stiller and Jack Black are hardly ‘young’ though, if they’re who get cast) I think Bill Murray should still be the main star. A Venkman/Oscar thing (not slash…). Say Venkman brought up Oscar as his own son and Oscar became a Ghostbuster but then Venkman left and hasn’t been seen by anyone for 5 years or so. No-one realises that Venkman is trapped in ‘Hell’. This is the place the ‘busters found to send all the trapped ghosts (they know they can’t keep them contained at the station). It’s populated with 20 years’ worth of ghouls that the ‘busters have put in there. Or something.

I have an AWESOME Ghostbusters film idea. I bang on about it every time the topic gets brought up, but with GOOD REASON.

There’s a story in Tokyopop’s Ghostbusters manga “Ghostbusted” that I really which has Ray called out to a couple of homes including a woman being haunted by the ghost of John lennon who keeps singing Imagine at her.