Cool News
NBC’s OFFICE Writers Are Scripting GHOSTBUSTERS III!!
I am – Hercules!!
Sony has hired Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, Emmy-nominated writer-producers on the Steve Carell version of "The Office," to script a "Ghostbusters" sequel that would reunite Venkman, Stanz, Spengler and Zeddemore.
Harold Ramis, who co-wrote the earlier "Ghostbusters" movies and portrayed mold fetishist Egon Spengler in those comedies, is in post-production on next summer's Jack Black period comedy "Year One," which was directed by Ramis from a screenplay by Ramis, Eisenberg and Stupnitsky.
Ramis directed three season-three episodes of "The Office," namely "A Benihana Christmas," "Safety Training" and "Beach Games."
"Office" episodes scripted by Eisenberg and Stupnitsky include "The Fight," "The Secret," "The Convention," "Women's Appreciation," "Dinner Party" and "Job Fair."
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
Well, that's what I heard!
Highlights from the Ramis-directed "Benihana Christmas":
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It's the Stay-Pufft Marshmallow man....
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Good show, could be a decent movie. Just don't try to "young it up" eh, Hollywood? If Shia Labeouf or Jessica Alba ends up being cast in it I will be verrry disappointed.
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you say YES!
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kind of unnessecary but it's in good hands
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Call it luck, call it fate, call it karma....
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very good news!!!
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interesting
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There's plenty of new ideas out there... Hollywood just chooses to ignore them for the most part. They are too in love with "Branding" to notice the secretly hot girl with glasses sitting in the corner.
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they can re-unite Viggo with the snivelling little shit from Ally McSqueal (I can't even remotely feign the interest to IMDB his name!). How about a Schindler's List sequel instead?
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this is cool news indeed.
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I'm as apprehensive as I am excited about this. It's not like the Office isn't well written, it's probably one of the best American sitcoms in recent memory (behind only Arrested Developement) But a GB script without Akroyd's ridiculous paranormal terminology? Only Akroyd can write Ray Stantz, Likewise with Ramis, really why would these guys read someone else's words for one of their greatest team efforts? And you know Murray won't follow the script, if He even signs on. Get Moranis and Weaver back and we'll see. I'm hoping for the best, but will approach with extreme caution. Ghostbusters is the first movie I ever remember seeing, so this is a big deal for me at least.
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is not my forte tonight, it seems.
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...them all having to come out of retirement becuase of a new ghost city officials are unable to deal with
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I am so sick of this latest trend of digging up the tired old memories of my youth and tarting them up for the kiddies not willing to watch a twenty year old film. Fuck Hollywood.
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it could work, one last time out of retirement.
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This movie is going be HUGE!! With out a doubt this movie will be funny as shit.
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Next time use a dictionary instead of spell-check.
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Christ, it's almost a matter of time.
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Still the best line in Ghostbusters.
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After all the shitty crap Hollywood has been churning out, we finally get another "Ghostbusters." It used to be a game I'd play where I'd say, "They'll make 'Basic Instinct II' but not Ghostbusters III." Feel free to add any other useless, god-awful sequel or just a horrible movie where BI 2 is.
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It might have been a little too long. I am stoked for the new video game, though. They must have had a pretty good time making that if they are up for another movie. Maybe that's a sign the game turned out pretty good.
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No, go ahead... wait, no... sounds like you got at least two people in there already.
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Sep 04, 2008 6:59:22 PM CDT
...That's the bedroom. But nothing ever happened in there.
by rando calrisian
...What a shame.
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I just about fell out of my seat laughing at that. Very good.
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I don't have high hopes for this. Also, theres not way you get Murray, Akroyd, and Moranis together on this one. Maybe Ernie Hudson, but If I had my druthers, he'd be 3 months into a Congo sequel by now.
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Sep 04, 2008 7:05:10 PM CDT
If it's got a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you s
by photoboy
This is cool news, I just hope they can get Bill Murray on board. Hopefully they'll be able to come up with a funny and clever script that doesn't rely on CGI to prop the film up (like a Bay film).
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Sep 04, 2008 7:05:50 PM CDT
Bring back Ernie Hudson's character and the porn star ghost for
by monkey_king
Having Steve Johnson's XFX or EFX(whatever they're called these days) would also be a plus.
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yes have some!
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This movie is to me what Transformers was to so many others. Please don't fuck it up.
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How bout we re-do porky's. or was that a 70's movie...
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You only have to look at the sequel and the likes of evolution to see how badly it can go wrong.
It has to be silly enough for bizzarre happenings and the comedy to seem natural but not so silly that everything collapses into a series of peurile slapstick scenes with no narrative or percieved risk to the protagonists. A very hard line to walk.
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they were doing the game was because there was not going to be a 3rd movie
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Sep 04, 2008 7:16:38 PM CDT
"Let's show this prehistoric BITCH how we do things downtown!"
by finding forrestal
Holy fuck, this could actually be good!
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Missing in Action IV starring Jason Statham, Caddyshack III starring Dane Cook, and Tyler Perry's Police Academy 8. The 80s teat is far from being milked dry!
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Lorenzo Music was the voice of Garfield/Peter Venkman. Bill Murray the movie version of Venkman went on to voice Garfield int he movie. It all came full circle. Therefore, I am going to get a picture of president Garfield because I love lasagna so much.
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Sep 04, 2008 7:19:44 PM CDT
Good to see they'll be ruining an american comedy this time
by tbransonlives
Booooo!
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...how we do things downtown!
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if they can get Akroyd, Murray , Ramis and Hudson . But if they recast with stupid young "hip" actors like Shie , Dane Cook ,Ryan Reynolds ( with Alba in the Weaver role ) then this will be so morbidly atrocious as to encite riots ( with those of us who know better , the public will prolly eat it up ) sigh
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as the awkward and politically incorrect, but ultimately kind-hearted ghost buster? But that may be a stretch.
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"tell him about the twinkie."
"what about the twinkie?" -
Watch Law and Order SVU for an answer to your queery
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As much as these new remakes and sequels anger me, I think this project has a ton of potential. Not the "I sure hope Lucas doesn't fuck up Indy IV" potential, either. Saw this movie as a kid and played the shit out of it in the VCR days. I miss Murray, Akroyd and Ramis. Sell me a ticket now, I'm watching this movie.
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you guys are killing me with all those one liners! I dont know if they can recapture the magic, but hell why not give it a shot, they are making sequels to everything these days.
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Sep 04, 2008 7:26:21 PM CDT
Will they have to include young hip teen Jr. Ghostbusters??
by picardsucks
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its not like he's busy.
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is regardless of the movie itself, more talkbackers quoting lines from the original just makes this thread even cooler!
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This is exactly the sort of writing team who SHOULD be able to avoid all the obvious pitfalls. I am appeased. I will no longer comment on this subject until news breaks that they're seriously fucking it up, at which point I'll post the obligatory "I told you so."
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SO be good, for goodness sake, whoa oh oh, somebody's coming! Somebody's coming...
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I'm not really totally against this being made if they can get the original cast. But for the time being it's fun to bitch about things.
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which you really shouldn't do
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you can keep the five bucks
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so ahead of its time
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..is cancelled for now. That sucks, as it looked like it was going to be something else. Maybe thats why they are makin the movie.
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They go up.
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It's really weird there haven't been, like, a HUNDRED sequels by now. Or at least a TV series that runs for 15 seasons like STARGATE has so far.
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I guess THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, SLIMER! AND THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, and EXTREME GHOSTBUSTERS probably did run about 15 seasons combined.
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That's a SHITLOAD for a syndicated cartoon show. (And even EXTREME GHOSTBUSTERS ran for 40 episodes, jeez.)
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It has been postponed so that Sony can re-evaluate the marketing and subsequent release. There is NO OFFICIAL SOURCE stating its cancellation. Know why? Next year is the 25th anniversary of the movie, so it makes perfect sense to release the game then. They've already nearly completed the game, so there is no logic at all in cancelling what would be a great seller.
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Two in the box! Ready to go! We be fast......And they be slow!
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Who's McCain gonna call?
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Please.
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Is so fucking good.
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Has anybody contacted Jennifer Runyon's agent?
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Because I want to play it...NOW!!
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Who does your taxes?
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for wrongful prosecution. . . God, I loved it when you were a little kid and hearing cuss words were funny
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seeing the Titanic, but this time the ghost ship is "The Love Boat"
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Perhaps a change of venue will be in order. Like, say, perhaps CHICAGO!!! It will probably be L.A.
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That Ghostbusters 2 sucked slimey balls?
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Ghostbusters is one of those perfect movies. There is untapped potential in the franchise.
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with the ghost of Rahs al Guhl making a guest appearance
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They are so afraid of losing money on movies now, they are going to put THIS out? They don't deserve to be in the entertainment business.
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Then uh... Why would ya make the movie? And you HAVE to have the original cast. I don't care who else you put in it. Fuck it, you could have Justin Timberlake as a new recruit. But you NEED to have Ramis, Ayckroyd, Hudson and Murray, otherwise no reason to watch it.
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Why am I drippings with goo?
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...Was supposed to be a passing of the torch to Farley, Sandler, and Spade? Well we're a whole 'nother generation down the line. I for one would welcome Rogen, Danny McBride, and maybe even a Ferrell Or John C. Reilly. Hell Jack Black, Stiller, or Downey could even hold it down. And someone black. Who's funny and black nowadays? Fuck I'd love to see Chappelle.
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Craig Robinson! And maybe Carrell could take the place of Moranis' character in some similar form.
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He's completely useless. For a worthwhile Ernie Hudson performance, check out his work as the retard Solomon in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. "I won't let you hurt them... they're my friends... I won't let you hurt them."
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That Harold Ramis is the size of a water Buffalo. The Dude is huge and out of shape. Remember when he was skinny.
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..their gonna get eddie murphy to white up and play bill murray and its gonna be set inside a ping pong ball
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Seriously, this was the movie my whole family quoted to each other in regular conversation, it was that huge in our house. Every once in a while I'll say "4 FEET above her covers!" to my parents and they'll bust out laughing. Feeling a little weird about this news, though. Must EVERY 80's franchise be brought back? I'm as big a fan of my decade as you can be, but when there's talk of Red Dawn, Tron, Transformers, Voltron, Flash Gordon, War Games, GI Joe and a dozen other movies and/or sequels that are twenty years old, you know they're not doing it for the art. I'm waiting for the Moonwalker remake so we can see Michael actually turn into a car, he's had that much surgery. Someone who slipped into a coma in 1987 could wake up now and pick up where they left off, entertainent-wise. Not good, Hollywood.
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Sep 04, 2008 9:12:11 PM CDT
Vinz, you said before you were waiting for a sign. What sign are
by six demon bag
Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
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Sep 04, 2008 9:14:30 PM CDT
"the franchise rights alone will make us rich beyond our wildest
by amy chasing
and there must be money to be made otherwise why haven't they made sequels to everything from Ferris Bueller to Breakfast At Tiffany's? Oh wait, cause that would be LAME!
Shit, hope I haven't given some dried up, money oriented, excuse for a Hollywood imagination ideas here...
Please, someone come up with some new ideas. Movies are not computer games where doing the Nintendo thing improves on games made 20 years ago. Indy 4 sucked. The prequels sucked. The recent Muppet movies sucked. Stop it. Just stop it. -
will own you.
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It is about time. I cannot wait to see the boys back at it.
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Are they Emmy nominated for that?
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better fucking be back. He owned the second one. Unrelated note, just watched Naked Gun 2 1/2 for the first time and laughed harder than I have for a long time.
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This time, it's November 26th; the announcement was posted on the Weinstein Company's website. It was supposed to be out two weeks from tomorrow.
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A) Why aren't they just using Aykroyd and Ramis's GHOSTBUSTERS IN HELL script?
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This man has no dick...but seriously, as long as the guy who did that piece of shit with Krasinsky and Mandy Moore is kept away from GB3 I'm in. I don't see Murray coming back though, he's taking himself just a bit too seriously these days. But just the idea of a third one. i always liked the second one even though i think it got some bad reviews
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Nice one. Also, Sarah Palin as the next incarnation of Gozer the Gozerian.
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I realized that it didn't tarnish the power of the original. I just erased it out of my mind after I saw it. So even if this blows, it won't affect my fond memory of the original. Just try to make it good, Office guys.
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Like Arrested Development...
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Sep 04, 2008 10:14:16 PM CDT
I find her interesting because she's a client and because she sl
by finding forrestal
FOUR FEET above her covers. She barks, she drools, she claws!
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Fucking hell.
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http://www.comics2film.com/index.php?a=story&b=35395
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was damn funny
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Movie staring SNL Alumni ever. You gotta put this movie in a pit with The Blues Brothers and let them fight for supremacy.
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...they said they were gonna do GB 3 as like a CGI toon because Bill Murray will only offer them his voice.
He doesn't want to do another live-action movie.
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In this movie,his best comedic performance, in my opinion. So many great lines " I just whacked her up with about 300 cc's of Thorazaine... she's gonna take a little nap now!" Comedy gold!
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We need Ray Parker Jr to make a comeback for this.
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I would be disappointed if all of them come back in their current forms... because they are... FAT!
My buddy tiled Ramis's house here in Chicago... and he is FAT!
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I'm more excited for the videogame at this point. At least it was written by Ackroyd and Ramis.
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Sep 04, 2008 11:01:02 PM CDT
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia writers scripting Gremlins 3!
by logo lou
That would be bad ass...
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While I'm normally against Hollywood reusing old ideas, this has the potential to be awesome. All of the original cast will be back, the Office guys are really funny (plus they've got Ramis' endorsement), and it will be nice to see if they've still got that old chemistry. Somebody else was right though, they should probably lose some weight if they're going attempt more physical comedy.
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http://tinyurl.com/6m3ss7
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...GOD YES. PLEASE LEARN A LESSON FROM G2 and make a true comedy like the first one. Please?
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Fuck yeah,
Please have Carrell and Rogen be a part of the new team trying out some new badass equipment.
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Loved Ghostbusters II.
Have wanted Ghostbusters III for a long time.
The one line you won't you see in the third installment - Bill Murray to his wife Sigourney Weaver upon being delivered divorce papers:
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IT IS COOL NEWS!
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Cool!
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"That's great!" "Actual physical contact!" "I feel so funky."
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Sep 05, 2008 12:31:27 AM CDT
You are like the buzzing of flies to him
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
I know why he's sad....You've forgotten his puppy. He's suffering from Carpathian puppy-loss.
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"Yeah, we can do more damage that way." LOL
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After hearing this news, "I slimed me."
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The Vince Vaughn of Dodgeball would be great in this, like Murray was in the first one -- the hipster who can't quite believe what he is seeing.
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Sep 05, 2008 12:38:38 AM CDT
My uncle thought he was Saint Jerome
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
I'd call that a big yes.
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suck in the guts guys we're the Ghostbusters.
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Sep 05, 2008 12:41:23 AM CDT
I collect spores, moulds and fungus
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
I had a slinky once, but I straightened it.
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Sep 05, 2008 12:44:39 AM CDT
Lets see what happens when we take away the puppy
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
she's tough, she's a harbor chick.
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Nice shootin' Tex!!
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sometimes shit happens, somebodys got to deal with it, and who you gonna call!?!
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"Back off man. I'm a scientist."
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Can't wait, I hope it's good enough to get Bill aboard.
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How are they supposed to run around and stuff? Don't tell me - they're going to introduce a cocky young man (played by Shia LeBeouf) who might or might not be someone's son! And who does the running and the ghost busting! Ahh, this stuff writes itself.
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"There?" "They're."
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It's not like he has sex with the mold, or keeps mold around because he likes to fantasize about mold while having sex with someone/something who/that is not mold. He just likes mold, so he grows mold. And that's all there is to it. It's no different than someone who likes violent videogames buying God of War. Except for the fact that God of War isn't mold.
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nuthin else matters...
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Granted I saw the film when I was a child, but i've always felt it had the same charm and mixture of comedy and special-effects extravanza that the first one had. I love the lines "Where's my favorite shirt?"
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It wasn't the greatest movie ever made, and it was a bit weak after the sheer awesomeness of the first film, but the second movie is the most eminently quotable. "Oh, but I woooed!" Janosz is the most quotable character of the film, but I still can't watch Lord of the Rings without screaming at Aragorn, "HE IS VIGO! YOU ARE ALL LIKE THE BUZZING OF FLIES TO HEEM!" Yeah, I know...sad.
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...everyone cheers. Statue of Liberty then gets utterly fucking destroyed by the Ghostbusters...everyone cheers. And I wonder how much money Nintendo paid to have thier joystick be the only videogame controller on the market which is able to make the Statue of Liberty walk around and fuck shit up.
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Um, the Ambien is playing tricks on you. You got it right the first time around regarding correct form of "they're." You did, however, forget a question mark at the end of the third sentence.
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That's what she said!
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Activision dumped 90% of its current slate, so the game's rights reverted to Sony, who is making a deal with someone to publish it as I type this. The actual development of the game itself, from what I understand, is finished, and it just needs a new publisher.
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..that the original line-up would be impossible to beat, and would draw endless comparisons if they were to go with a 'new' set of Ghostbusters. This is a very wise move keeping the original cast.
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Should this happen, (and let's face it - it probably will) - KEEP JACK BLACK AWAY FROM THIS. Keep that gurning fool as far from this as possible. The gulf in talent between the likes of him Murray, Ramis et al is too vast to even contemplate in this context.
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1) Ellen Ripley - been there done that
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2) John McClane - checked
3) John Rambo - checked
4) Henry Jones Jr - checked
5) Peter Venkman and Co - checked
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I guess I don't get why this doesn't read "Ramis and Ackyroyd" working on script for Ghostbusters III. Haven't those guys supposedly had an idea for it for years?
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Sep 05, 2008 4:29:04 AM CDT
MEMO TO HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS: Please, pretty please, for the love o
by wonder man
COME UP WITH SOME NEW SHIT!!!! JESUS H FUCKING CHRIST... THERE ARE THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF SCREENWRITERS OUT THERE!!! SURELY THERE ARE NEW IDEAS WORTH TAKING A CHANCE ON... THAT'S HOW YOUR FOREBEARS DID IT IN THE PRECIOUS 1970S & 80S THAT YOU'RE SO HELLBENT ON PLUNDERING!!!!! FUCKING FUCKING FUCK FUCK FUUUUUUUUCK.........
Just... enough enough enough ENOUGH WITH THE MOTHERFUCKING REMAKES/REBOOTS/REIMAGININGS/LONG-DELAYED SEQUELS ALREADY!!!!!!!!!
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Hope he's involved!
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...and these guys helped me." "Thankyou Lois, that was short, but pointless!" GB2 Rules!
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... drippings vith goo?"
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I'm a rabid Ghostbusters fan. As a kid it was one of only a handful of films I got to see in the cinema as we didn't have a cinema where I lived. My parents didn't have a car so I usually had to wait until some other family member was taking their kids out of town to a cinema and ask if I could tag along. I had the Ghostbusters movie adaptation book and had read it a shit load of times before I even got to watch it in a cinema. But when I finally did, man, it just changed my life. Then when it came out on video, I had to pre book it and wait for weeks. When I finally got it, I must have watched it 20 times before it was returned to the shop. I'd watch it, rewind the tape, watch it again, and over and over. Drove my parents nuts. Once the rental-rush was over I used to rent it almost every weekend. Ghostbusters 2 was a bit of a let down, too much comedy and not enough creepy scares. But I have it on dvd cos it's worth it just for the court case scene. Anyway, as much as it pains me to be saying this, I think that they should recast it and have some new actors playing Venkman, Stantz, Egon and Winston. The original cast are just too old for this. Dan, Bill, Harold and Ernie will always be the original and the best. But I think that this film could still work with some new actors playing these great characters and hopefully lead to even more Ghostbusters movies.
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When she was promoting her autistic drama snow cake. she said that she wouldnt be involved in Ghostbusters 3 or any more alien films.
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Because that film was very personal for Bob Gale and Bob Zemeckis. and it took them a very long time to get them made. at the end of BTTF 3. marty did what doc wanted and destroyed the delorean.
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Bill Murray is at his best during the World of the Psychic scene. The look he gives to the camera when that girl tells him about her Holiday Inn experience has me in stitches every time. And hairless pets on a psychic show, LOL. I could go on about this scene, it has more great lines. But anyway it was a nice bit of continuity to see Venkman as the host of a TV show after Dana told him in GB1 that he looks more like a gameshow host (notice that look Venkman gives and the music that comes up after she says this, as if he remembers the advice). Peter MacNicol as Janosj was also wonderful by the way.
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Man, I watched the sequel a few weeks back and it was awful.
The first one is gold, Men In Black being the only movie that ever got close to being anything like a decent sort of follow-up.
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Sep 05, 2008 7:07:08 AM CDT
"I'd like to do some gynecological tests on the mother"
by larry sellers
I fucking hate remakes, reimaginings, reboots...but this sounds like it could really work. Ghostbusters was something I've always absolutely loved. Even GBII which had more good than bad I thought. Recasting or "the next generation" was one of my main concerns in a new film, but reuniting the old cast? With Stupnitksy and Eisenberg? They're hilarious. And teaming with Ramis is genius. My one worry is that while all of the episodes they've penned were heavy on laughs, very little actually happened to move the plot. Or it was just extremely underplayed and too too subtle (Dwight and Angela in "Job Fair"). But if Aykroyd and Ramis are involved, I'm sure they'll pad out the story with good stuff. The only fucking long-delayed sequel I've looked forward to since TPM.
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...Angelina Jolie as Gozer the Gozerian. Stupid fuckin' idea, but I just wanted to pre-empt all the morons who'll be spouting it sooner or later.
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The Environmental Protection Agency guy was one of the bad guys.
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Sure, it wasn't as great as the first one but it had JANOSZ!!! It also had two of the funniest Bill Murray moments in either movie:
1) Bill's awesome soap operatically whispered "Hello, Dana..."
2) The look on Bill's face when Janosz "shakes" his hand.
Comedy GOLD!
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"De Upper Vest Side."
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...were out of shape even back in '84 so nobody will notice the difference. Maybe Aykroyd needs to lose some weight, though.
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Egon. Watch Harold Ramis as Egon in the first movie. He smiles, once, maybe twice during the course of the entire movie. He's a Vulcan. In Ghostbusters 2, Ramis has a wry grin plastered on his face for the entire movie. He's not Egon. He's loveable pot-smoking Harold Ramis.
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Hate on GB2 if you want, but it's still better than 99% of the sequels Hollywood shits out on a regular basis. Hell, it's better than a lot of the regular movies too! As for GB3, I'm excited, but I'm not gonna get my hopes up. I've heard this too many times to believe it will actually happen. I got too excited about the game, and look where that got me.
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Yanosz was probably the best thing about GB2.
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teenage model ghostbusters that are there just to set up a another sequel- super duper special effects that look way too real which makes them look fake-a female romantic lead that totally blows- etc. buuuut it would rule of they did it right .
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Nice idea, but cant help but think its about 15 years to late.
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..the Hollywood-slick children of the Ghostbusters but it will rip off the Home Alone concept, entire squad goes out of town for a convention and the kids gotta strap on the equipment and save the city....while Joe Pesci hijinks as the mayor.It'll leave a stink in the theater very-much like chili farts....chili farts.
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Be honest, how many of you pretended you were a Ghostbuster when you were young? Me? My brothers and I had all the toys, everything. One of the best Christmas mornings we ever had is when all three of us opened our proton packs. I still have vivid memories of my brothers and I running around the basement with our proton packs pretending to be the Ghostbusters; being an 80s kid was great!
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I knew something was wrong with GB2 when I realized the musical score was not by Elmer Bernstein. I was only 12 when I saw it in the theater, but the difference was very noticeable to me. Strange how something you can't even see on screen can affect you experience of a movie.
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So your alien had a room at the Holiday Inn, Paramus?" Those two movies are some of the very few I can watch anytime and not feel like I've seen them too much, though I have. Make sense?
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Every movie that had a sequal years later sucked. Indy was only mildly entertaining, any Star Wars movies after the originals were a let down, even Live Free Die Hard wasn't the same. I just think the time for this has past. And I'm a huge GB fan. But getting new blood to put on the packs is just going to weaken and tarnish the original. Man if this goes through, I really hope they don't mess it up. Ugh.
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If not i wonder who?
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Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but there's no fucking way in hell this project will ever materialize. The cast is way too old and have lost interest. Rick Moranis has retired from acting and Bill Murray has stated several times he would not strap on the proton pack again (his back couldn't support it anyway). This isn't the first time someone has attempted to resurrect the dead Ghostbusters franchise. Just Google an aborted screenplay entitled "Hell Bent" and that shall put this to rest.
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Vigo the Despised Vigo the Cruel Vigo the Unholy...he is VIGO!
I hope this works on some level. Because Vinster is right. -
For this to work, Dana and Peter have to be married, or at least together, and Dana's son Oscar(raised by Dana and Peter) is now a grad student taking over the paranormal family biz with dad and his uncles. Hell, you can even give the guy a "superpower" like telepathy and attribute it to his abduction / encounter with Vigo. And naturally, Oscar will be a Jets fan, and will appear in the film at least once wearing a Favre jersey.
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in all black leather, that's it--I'll kill myself
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OK ok, no more, I promise...
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As good as these guys from The Office may be, the best writers apart from Ackroyd & Ramis are Straczynski & DiTillio, who did the first few seasons of the animated series. Rehashing old plots and characters will just cheapen this.
As to the weaselly little shit from Ally McSqeaul, he's got a very good job on NUMB3RS right now, and I doubt he'd leave it.
I honestly don't see this getting past development hell. -
'Are you, Alice, menstruating right now?' 'What's that got to do with it?' ' Back off man, I'm a scientist.'
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Bite your head off, man.
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shit- don't hate on GB2
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a bond fide classic, Ghostbusters 2 is great, "I worked with better, but not many", always cracks me up...
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The US Office is a piece of shit. I'm definitely not excited for this at all.
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It was pretty darn good. Not as good as the first, but a worthy sequel that did not disappoint.
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They go up.
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...does Bill Murray think he is? After that Garfield shit the only thing he has any right getting snooty about is if he gets offered the supporting role in "2 girls, 1 mouth".
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I heard he is doing the voice for the video game. I wonder why he wouldn't do the movie? anyway im sick of all these projects from my childhood being raped.
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PLEASE get the whole cast back, PLEASE get Slimer in there (NOT as a friendly ghost!), PLEASE make fun of everyone's weight, AND PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY DON'T LET THIS SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!
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was the only thing funny in the film.
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Am I the only one that thinks the Boogey Man story line from the animated series would make a perfect story for the big screen?
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Get the cast of The 40 Year old Virgin to be the new cast of Ghostbusters.
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NBC Script writers!
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Yeah, Peter MacNichols or whatever the heck his name is had a great turn as Janosh. "Yes! Command me, Lord!" He was great in Dragonslayer and on Ally McBeal as well.
DA scourge of carpathia! Da sorrow of muldavia! -
Sep 05, 2008 1:58:27 PM CDT
Awesome! But please NO Stiller, Vaughn, Wilson, Farrel etc!!!!
by theyreflockingthisway
They're in every damn comedy film that comes out these days and I'm so sick of them. I spend their movies sat there thinking "when is the Owen Wilson cameo going to be - oh there it is. Now, I wonder when the Will Farrell cameo will be..."
I want the classic deadpan comedy of Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis - busting ghosts one last time. New Ghostbusting team? Who cares? We saw rookie and had a new recruit (Winston)in the first movie (and one in the second if you count Louis). -
Sep 05, 2008 2:05:55 PM CDT
You're not with Con Ed or the phone company, so tell me another
by theyreflockingthisway
I got a major gas leak here! Where do you think all this is coming from!? The sky!?!?
(just had to jump in with another hilarious Ghostbusters 2 quote). -
Leave it be Hollywood, the firt two were plenty good enough thank you very much. All this third movie will be is a crappy, hollow, cynical, retelling of the first with a "hot" WB network "star" in the Pete Venkman role. They'll make Spengler or Stantz a hot WB chick and the love interest for Venkman who is now an action star. Fuck this movie, fuck it right up its stupid ass.
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You're next, Bubbles.
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1...2...3...Roast 'em!
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Still a line I use today when I look at all the over-privileged kids with too many expensive toys.
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We can expect "Ghost Busters 3" to mock Asian women?
Seriously, I may be alone but I cannot see why the American version of "The Office" is considered even remotely humorous. -
and have totally sucked. Let's make another. I know it's money in their pockets but look at the track record Die Hard = extra chunky suck.
Indiana Jones= two gulp suck
Let's go with another Ghostbusters
will probably be = regurgitate then suck, regurgitate again and suck. -
Because it was just a rehash of the first one and extremely un-original. I could give you a million examples. Both start out with the boys down&out and get finally get in business with a musical montage. Both have geeks in love with Dana that get possessed. Both have antagonists with phallic names (A line cut from GB2 even has Venkman mocking "Hard-on-meyer"'s name.) Both have Venkman trying to win over Dana and eventually succeeding. Both have suitmation creatures stomping on NYC.
Just pay attention to GB2 the next time you watch it and you'll see there's hardly anything original in it.
And yes, the score sucked. They'd have been better off just recycling Elmer Bernstein's stuff. (They couldn't get Bernstein for GB2 because he was pissed they deleted parts of his score in favor of '80s pop like Magic & Savin' the Day.) -
Bill Murray doing this is a real possibility. Besides the good point made above that he did freakin' GARFIELD, he now has a very ugly divorce to pay off.
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They were BOTH funny!
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Please don't suck. I was only in 2nd grade when Ghostbusters came out. The cartoon ruled. Then I was disallusioned when Ghostbusters 2 came out, that horried pile of crap. Please don't suck.
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...you tried to drill a hole through your head?
Egon - That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me. -
I've worked in the private sector. They expect results.
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THIS ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN.
PERIOD.
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Sep 05, 2008 4:30:57 PM CDT
I couldn't imagine GB without Magic and Saving the Day
by the winged doucheman
As dated as those songs seem now, they set the mood for the accompanying scene.
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Always loved the way that guy says that line.
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Stripes rules!
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If it's not scripted by Aykroyd and Ramis and Directed by Ivan Reitman or Ramis, then don't make it.
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But not great. The JMS Real Ghostbusters episodes blew GB2 away.
"[Cthulhu] makes Gozer look like Little Mary Sunshine." - Egon Spengler
By the way, the entire Real Ghostbusters series is being released on DVD. Problem is, you have to buy the entire series. And we all know the series went to kiddie hell after JMS left and Dave "You Oughta Know" Coulier replaced Lorenzo Music. Lorenzo Music's firing was allegedly due to either A) A Bill Murray temper tantrum, or B) a middle-management sycophant blowing an offhanded Bill Murray comment out of proportion. -
I'm shocked at its low rating.
I voted (which I rarely do) it a 10; hopefully some of my fellow Ghostbusters fans here will head over and try to vote it up into the top 250. -
I can hardly watch any of the ones with Dave "Cut It Out!" Coulier.
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only one step below AICN TBers. ;)
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...with a gansterized version of "Who Ya Gonna Call?" Ok perhaps not. But it does sound interesting and I normally avoid remakes and sequels (which means I don't see many new movies anymore). They should bring in a young Slimer from the CW to get the kids to turn out. The original Slimer is too fat for the part now.
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This is the best news for ages. They HAVE to get the original cast back though (well main Ghostbuster's anyway) and also, definitely Slimer!!!! And he better not look all fucked up just because of advances in special effects technology. He looked shit hot before.
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3D?I think it would work quite well with all the ghost.Long as there is still a good story and good acting.
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They're a few steps above us AICN TBers. I just visited a talkback that had a user saying Fantastic Four was better than The Dark Knight......hopeless.
Anyways I'm not excited about this news. The US Office isn't really that well written to be honest, prefer the BBC version but we should save that for another discussion.
These writers really aren't suited for Ghostbusters, but eh whatever if they churn out a good script I'll be happy. Bring Murray with you! His non-comedic career is really good nowadays but I still want to see him Ghostbusters 3. -
sept.5th Friday..The Hollywood Reporter said that this is actually a remake and not a sequel.
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Sep 06, 2008 10:12:16 AM CDT
"...because one day I got turned into a dog and they helped me,
by koborover
Don't forget the courtroom scene from GB2, hilarious! Love it when the judge yells SHUT UP to the audience when they start to cheer for the Ghostbusters.
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Sep 06, 2008 2:07:02 PM CDT
"No, I can’t, sounds like you’ve already got at least two people
by saracen1
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people just love to hate!
And Abominable...Janozsh (sp?) and the courtroom scene alone make it an instant classic!
"Oh but I woo-ed!"
I totally did not now he starred in Dragonslayer until I bought the DVD a few months back!
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