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GHOSTBUSTERS 3 shooting this fall?!?!?!?
Hey folks, Harry here... Well, this sure would be cool if it happens. At least, if it's a great script with a wonderful director and great talent attached. And and.. it sure would be nice to have 1 more great GHOSTBUSTERS movie.
n Boston to promote a new House of Blues, Dan Aykroyd answered some online questions for the Boston Globe - as is typical, the first question asked was about Ghostbusters 3
[Comment From Tom] Dan, I'm extremely excited for the HOB to be back in its birth-city!! I will be attending many shows. On a side note, and I'm sure you get these questions a lot, so I apologize in advance…Ghostbusters 3? I've heard that the writers of the Office are currently penning a script? How is this coming along, and should we look forward to this movie seeing the light of day? Thanks Dan!
Dan Aykroyd: Script is commenced early summer. Hope to be in production by late fall 2009
What's it mean? Well, it doesn't mean a Ghostbusters 3 is a sure thing. It means that if all goes well, the script commissioned last year will hopefully get the green light by around June, and if that happens, then hopefully the movie will go into production in the Fall. So, excellent to hear Dan is still pushing forward with the film, but it's still not a done deal yet.
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AMAZING G!
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there's the Ghostbusters game coming out in the summer and it's et in 91, so if a third movie is made will the game be canon or an alternate "Ghostbusters 3"? I guess time will tell.....
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In that case, then we can all anxiously expect a really, really crappy movie.
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i like seth rogen, but i prefer my ghostbusters to be the originals
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I guarantee there will be a scene with him smoking weed with Slimer.
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I'm excited for this movie. I hope Murray doesn't shoot this down.
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ROGEN! I'm sick and tired of seeing his ugly face on cinema. He's annoying and not funny! Please no Seth Rogen!
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original cast only please.
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Bill Murray is still f*cking funny, and Dan and Harold should still be fine as straight guys (one of the problems with GB2 was the attempt to divvy up the funny). And I'm pretty sure that Ernie Hudson Googles "Ghostbuster 3 rumors" every hour. Give them the right script, something that acknowleges their age, and it has the potential for awesomitude. Unfortunately, as GB2 showed, the suckage is always lurking, but as GB2 also showed, a lackluster sequel will never tarnish the original, so why not give it a shot?
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Awwww, another waaaay too late sequel ala INDY 4. The first GB was just about PERFECT! The 2nd was a far, far, far cry from being as good as the first so, this 20 years later one odds are will be...? Hurm... I mean haven't all the good ghost been done already? Yeah, and don't like add a new 'younger' side kick son of one of them either...
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There. I said it. Makes no sense, but I said it. LOL
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Ghost *jokes*... All the good ghost jokes. BUT WHO CARES!
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Bill Murray with a 20 million dollar check to do the dam thing, once again!
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And I love Bill Hader.
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Have a washed up Mulder and Scully get in over their heads and get their asses saved by the Ghostbusters, who show 'em how it's done. Mulder trying to use a proton pack could be hilarious, and I think Scully would look rather hot in one of those jumpsuits.
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This could easily be another Indy 4 if not done right... I wouldn't be against seeing some new blood along w/ the old crew...maybe Steve Carrell or Ben Stiller or something. I think a good GB3 is possible, but its gonna be a tough nut to crack.
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this man has no dick
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Don't let anyone from the Apatow or SNL crowds anywhere near this.....
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One day his told his has no office there. Keep fighting the good fight. Hope this film happens, and everyone returns, and it not a torch pass me down... Fuck a new crew only way I'll buy into a new crew is if they are trying to move in on your territory.
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Mulder going into his usual monotone diatribe about the paranormal, and having Ray Stantz correct him on many points, leading into delirious psuedo-science banter. Maybe they could cross paths with the Men In Black, too. Come on, GBs, XF and MIB have all had two movies each. Let's make a third movie for each franchise rolled into one. The original four Busters, Mulder & Scully, K and J all teaming up to fight, um, who could they fight? Donald Trump?
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It would be kinda cool, being 20 years since the last GB to see the spawn of Luis Tully & Janine Melnitz.
As cliche as it would be, Christopher Mintz-Plasse seems perfectly suited for the role of Louis & Janine's kid. He's the right age. He's got the perfect look. Best of all, he's got excellent comedic timing. He DOES remind me a lot of a younger Moranis.
Plus, it would be a good way to draw in a new crowd familiar with his work, but not GB so much. (Yeah. There's a whole generation who's never seen GB 1 or 2. Sad, but true.) -
ghost aliens in a ghost ufo
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I really hope this isn't the old team passing the torch to the young team to start a new franchise (which will be precisely what it turns out to be).Aykroyd hasn't been funny in eons. I've also heard he is an unbearable tool from people who worked with him on Grosse Point Blank.I really liked the old concept they've been batting around for like 15 years, with New York becoming Hell On Earth, where the curtain between the living and the dead is fully cast aside. I think that movie could be a great mix of Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice.
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the ghost seek equal rights, and the case goes to court again and the only crimes they can get the ghost on are trespassing (which doesnt work for all those involved- since some of the ghost lived in those residence before they passed, and they still see it as their home) they can't really arrest them for scaring people. So all the ghost have to be released, btu a no huanting zone law is passed, and it works for a while. the ghost busters are now legal cops and the only ghost they can go afetr and apprehend are those ghost who are suspected on real crimes, ecodrug pushing and murdering and stealling. The rest of the ghost feel like the whole equal rights isn't happening for them and theres a riot. Something like that- totally fucking out there, but ghost are people too. Teh dead got smarter in romeros films. Why can't ghost have a voice...
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Am I the only person that didn't hate Indy IV? It lacked an ending (though the final sequence where they escape a buried piece of alien technology as water rushes out, climbing up a plateua to look down is stolen directly from Total Recall). Still, there were plenty of fun moments. I went in with low expectations and had a good time.
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I'm shitfaced.
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The turd that was 2 needs redemption, but time is a harsh mistress if the boys are gonna be back in town - unless the retirement home is haunted. Mix it up a bit with those guys from Ghost Adventures seeing the shit for real with Murray and Akroyd and maybe . . .
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... no one has ever been cast in "Ghostbusters 3," so all of your screaming and crying about Seth Rogen is nonsense. No one's been cast. No one's been approached. You don't even know if there are younger Ghostbusters in this one or not, since no one's read the script and there are no story details available. The only time anyone's name has been attached to this has been by fanboys playing the "Who would you cast in Ghostbusters?" game, so maybe it's not worth your energy to get so upset already, eh?
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better to do it now when it's in dev time. Then to do it later when it's set in stone.. Right???
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Moriarty has posted! O_O
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When you get hired to write a script, it is usually on a specific story idea, or spec script that you submitted. Everyone has consistently reported that the spec script that the Office guys wrote was dealing with a young comedic team taking over, and specifically that it was written for guys like Seth Rogen.I'm sorry, but is there any actual news to suggest the studios are suddenly going in a new direction now? What other script would Akroyd be talking about, except the ones the studios commissioned?
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this revisionist history that 2 sucked, 2 may not have been as good as the first sure, but it was still a worthy follow up, for proof check out this article http://tinyurl.com/bx747v
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you are like the buzzing of flies to him!
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I have a feeling they are going to do this as if the Ghostbusters get their own reality TV show. Maybe something like "Ghost Hunters" on Sci-fi or a "Who wants to be a Superhero" type show.
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... didn't LOVE it.
- Either Shia LePaycheck was ill cast or his character simply drew too much attention from Indy himself.
- Being a pro CG artist/animator myself, I LOVE good CG. GOOD CG. Here, the quality was just so spotty. More over, the existence of the CG distracted from the importance of practical FX in an old school film such as this.
- Ford, as much as I love the bugger, is just too old for this role. They did what they could to make him look potent, but it looked a little sad at times. It was almost like watching Death Wish 5, where Charles Bronson's 73 years were clearly showing through.
- The idea of aliens was kinda, sorta cool, but maybe a little ill placed in a movie series that has been grounded in either history or religious type artifacts. I feel that other legends could have been explored and exploited to greater effect.
- It "felt" like a paycheck movie. The actors did their jobs. They didn't necessarily do anything wrong and even looked like they were having fun at times. At the end of the day, it was a movie to pay the bills. Mindless fun and not much more. It didn't hurt the series, but it didn't add a whole lot to it.
I'm not going to scream that Indy4 or Lucas/Spielberg "raped" my childhood or Indy, but I feel that they might have been better served by leaving well enough alone. Indy3 was a great closer to a great series. Unlike Rocky, which added a new entry to fix the bad taste left by the mediocre previous entry, Indy4 cashed in on all of the good will left by #3 - and to mixed effect.
It wasn't bad. It wasn't great. It was okay and maybe even good. Now, Indy3 WAS great. For #4 to live in the shadow of such success.... That's gotta hurt. -
...in a mentro-like role. WE CAME, WE SAW, WE KICKED IT'S ASS!
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you want the Bus Boys on the GB3 soundtrack!
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Actually, you should pick up the BluRay disc where they show how they did all the effects. 90% of the movie was practical, with no CGI. The crazy door that opened into the aliens chamber was all real for instance, yet many people insist it was bad CGI.The only problem with Indy IV is you set up this villian (and frankly Indy hasn't had much in the way of great villians) only to do nothing with her in the end. Indy doesn't save the day. You do have a big CGI-fest at the end. There is no resolution. That is just bad storytelling.Yes, I know Raiders did the same thing, except when the Ark was opened, that was scary shit back in the day. Indy IV needs a better ending.
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The whole reality TV show angle might actually be interesting. Even as a subplot, it could provide a nice sort of social commentary to this glut of REALLY bad "reality" television that clogs up the airwaves. If anybody can make such a commentary that's truly funny and relevant without being absurd and overly obvious then its these guys. The original Ghostbusters had a lot of funny things to say about everything and not just ghost jokes. GB3, if it ever gets made, could be a nice forum for these guys to poke fun at a lot of things ranging from their ages to the internet to reality TV. All while put in the context of a Ghostbusters flick.
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Aykroyd, Ramis. That's all you need.
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in Indy 4. That pissed me off big time. I've seen newbies with 6 months of experience composite better in some cases. For a pro team to do such shoddy work... (I've modded several different pro CG forums for 7 years now. I've seen it all.)
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Could be any reason. Maybe they want a more "modern hand" to touch it first for a rough pass before they spit shine it to classic. Maybe they want an original pitch from a different perspective, as they're so close to it. Maybe it's a time issue. Could be anything really. As long as the resultant flick is good, does it matter? A lot of very good entries in a lot of other series have had writers other than the original creator(s).
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I don't see any "screaming and whining" on this talk back yet...it is shocking as there usually is whining on a massive scale over even the most trivial of stories, but other then one person asking to please not cast Seth Rogan in it...I don't see what you are talking about. Yes we are debating possible casting choice and expressing hopes and fears about the script...isn't that why there is a talkback?
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This is smelling a little like Indy 4. Indy 4 was very fan driven and all the masterminds involved before (Lucas, Spielberg, and Ford) weren't content until they found that VERY RIGHT script. This... does not bode well for the franchise.
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I mean the REAL sequel not that lingering poop they called a sequel, and reprise the GREATEST comedy ever as the immortal Carl Spackler. Hey, HEY, LLAMA, how about you know, something, for the.... effort.
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Darabont wrote a script that Speilberg and Ford were happy with, and Lucas trashed it, despite the fact that Darabont wrote the story that Lucas demanded.
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Glad to see Moriarty could swoop down off his perch and grace us all with a preachy condescending statement. Just like old times, just like old times. That said, why bother coming here and posting anything, turd? It's obvious you have no interest. It reminds me of when I used to get drunk and go on myspace to post comments to people I never liked in high school. It's just pointless. Go back to your website nobody reads.
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I just love him, he is the greatest nonspeaking role/villain in film history. That being said, I will attach no expectations to this film and hope for the best. Ghostbusters was a major part of my childhood. I loved the movies, loved the cartoons, and even pretended to love the videogame just cause I was such a fan. The idea of revisiting it excites me on some level, but the thought of another aweful, long postponed sequel makes my stomach queasy. I'm with the fan boys on this, keep that fucking Apatow one dimensional actors Seth Rogan and Jonah Hill far from this movie.
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I don't know if you've noticed - but this is where fanboys come to bitch and freak out. It's your bread and butter.
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and Ghost busters 3 will be that shit
'Listen can you smell something'
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Tim Burton directing (thx enderandrew), ALL original actors (Mr. Moranis, please come out of hiding) get paid huge (because they deserve it IMHO), Terry Gilliam directing
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I'd buy every movie ever made by anyone involved in the production, on the latest media. With the leftover change, I should still be able to buy a player, too.
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Feb 23, 2009 2:55:43 AM CST
I hope the script has some good scary scenes in it
by spifftacular squirrel girl
I think that was a problem with the sequel. The original Ghostbusters was funny enough but it actually had some great "jump" moments like the scene with the hands coming out of the chair.
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a studio to take a chance on, it's GB. With a funny, yet serious, but still scary, and truly epic script, this could be the movie that other studios say, "Man, we coulda done it and made all that filthy lucre!!!"
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as a matter of fact, wouldn't it be cool if GB3 was the scariest of all three?
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we had a good, scary, epic comedy? GB2???All this excitement is too much for me. Make the damned movie, already!I don't think I've ever posted this many times in a TB. If that alone is not a good enough reason to make GB3, then I don't know what is.
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Found out Bruce Willis was dead at the end of Sixth Sense. Jizzed in my Pants!
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Feb 23, 2009 3:22:45 AM CST
Sick of Seth, Rid of Rogen, Sick of Seth, Rid of Rogen, Sick of
by darthpigman
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If you guys hate Apatow and the current crop of SNL alumni so much...what do you find funny? I'm not saying nothing else is funny; I'm just curious, cause it seems to me that the Apatow/Frat Pack/whatever you want to call them crew have actually brought the funny back to mainstream comedy in the last 8 years or so, and if you all hate them so much, who *do* you find funny? Honest question, no douchery intended.
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Scary thought.
*shudder*
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Hope he does get cast! Makes sense to cast the current crop of comedy tallent (if they go for a next gen angle), just like they did in 1984 (Except they shoulda got Eddie Murphy in the Zedamore role). Would you rather they cast Dane Cook, Jason Biggs & Ashton Kutcher?
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Enough. They were funny in a marginal sense, but God. ENOUGH. They are overexposed and overrated. Dear God make it stop.
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Hasn't anyone other than the Talkbackers on AICN yet noticed that Seth Rogen only ever plays the lovable stoner slob and Hill only plays the loudmouth obnoxious slob? They have NO DISCERNIBLE ACTING ABILITY! What would be the point in putting two of the unfunniest morons in comedy history up against the combined might of Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis?
Which means it's EXACTLY what the suits will do. I'm REALLY not holding my breath for this one, 'cos I think it will majorly suck, but I have NEVER wanted to be wrong so badly... -
Going with a new director would seem a little weird...unless it's Joe Dante. Joe Dante directing a Ghostbuster film would be really, really cool.
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Good question, but I think it's more to do with acting range than comedy.
The problem is with restriced range. Jonah Hill played a fat obnoxious loudmouth slob in SUPERBAD. Then the same guy in FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL. Same guy in KNOCKED UP. He can't act; he plays Jonah Hill with a different name. Same with Seth Rogen; the loveable slob cop in SUPERBAD. Lovable stoner slob in KNOCKED UP. Loveable stoner slob in PINEAPPLE EXPRESS.
Yes, you could say Aykroyd is always a motormouth blowhard, Murray is always the wiseass world-beaten cynic, Ramis invented the Eugene Levy style of fish-out-of-water science guy. But take Murray in GHOSTBUSTERS, Murray in CADDYSHACK, and Murray in LOST IN TRANSLATION. There's a hell of a lot of difference - a lot more range, much better characterisation - in the acting. Murray can ACt, like REALLY act. Ditto for Aykroyd, Ramis, Hudson, Moranis et al.
They need funny actors who CAN act, not so-called "funny" actors such as the Rogen / Apatow crew. And as for what I find funny - I LOVE dumbass American comedies - DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR?, the HAROLD & KUMAR movies, the first two AMERICAN PIES - but no way would I suggest getting those guys into GHOSTBUSTERS 3. We need REAL actors for this gig. -
And were all accused of having minimal range back in their comedy heydays, Murray especially. It's not fair to hold Seth Rogen or even someone like Paul Rudd or Jason Segel to the level of expectation that we have for Bill Murray, who is over 60 years old and frankly didn't start showing his range as a serious actor until his early 50s at best. Plus, aren't we talking about Ghostbusters? What level of dramatic range/emotional depth did any of the original cast members show in the first movie? It was certainly awesome, but Stanley Kubrick it wasn't.
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Indiana Jones 4, Die Hard 4, the Star Wars prequels... have we learnt NOTHING?!?! Leave your childhood heroes where they are. They will only get fucked up and you will hate both them and yourself.
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Interesting.Twilight Zone, Gremlins, Innerspace, The'Burbs... Heck, I didn't really mind Small Soldiers.
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Don't forget Explorers.
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I never saw that. I'm gonna IMDb that right now.
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Not much info on that. It just says it was a TV mini series. I'm going to venture a guess it's kinda like Amazing Stories and Twilight Zone?
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And I'm not even talking about his frequent bullshit laden walks off the deep-end when it comes to spooks, aliens, psi-factors and shit.
He has frequently talked about Ghostbusters 3 and 4 in the past, and it's come to nothing.
So nothing to get excited about here. All the scripts and treatments in the world can be written, but until frame one is shot and in the can, I won't believe it's gonna happen. -
I hope you're wrong, but you're right in the fact that until any film has been shot, it's all just a dream.
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And with that reminder, suddenly everybody realized what a TERRIBLE idea a Ghostbusters 3 would be...
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Feb 23, 2009 5:50:18 AM CST
It would be cool if they had Samhaine or the Boogeyman.
by iamnicksaicnsn
Even if they were only short little cameos or something. Ghouls to be taken down to pass the time, unrelated to the bigger plot. "Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis?! What's that a law firm??"
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Can't see that it wouldn't be good.
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Heard a while back that the Venkman character would be appearing as a ghost. I can see big potential with that idea. Cranky trapped-between-worlds Murray hanging out with his old GB pals.
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We got the tools, we got the talent!
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So I guess we might see Ghostbusters 3 after all. Too bad Rick Moranis started to pretend to be dead when his wife died. Let us wait and see. It might be a reboot, but oh well.
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Seth Rogan on Howard Stern reported that he did NOT want to do GB3, as he did not want to be the one to ruin one of the best film franchises in recent history. He said he'd read the script and be open to it, but he didn't have his hopes up.
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...just how shit Ghostbusters 2 actually was? Seth 'unfunny' Rogan is already wa-a-ay past his sell-by date. Who ya gonna call? Someone else, hopefully.
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He already has a track record of funny that is every bit as good as the original cast of Ghostbusters. I realy hope he is cast. So called fan boys on this site that say otherwise can eat it!
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This has some potential to be awesome but after the trauma of the prequel trilogy and Indy 4 I am skeptical. If they keep all the original guys and make them the focus I think I will be good. But if they try and bring in a bunch of new younger cast members to help "carry" the film i think it will be a disaster. Akroyd, Murray, Ramis dont need help to carry a movie. Fingers crossed on this one...
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...Waht, you mean in addition to... none? (I loved the first one, but it was hardly "great".)
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If there can be chick transformers, I think there should be chick ghostbusters too.
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Feb 23, 2009 8:00:48 AM CST
...Waht, you mean in addition to... none? (I loved the first one
by 3rdrate
You're an idiot.
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we could get awesome ghosts and ghost fights.
but is the movie going to be dark funny? will it have memorable characters? is its atmosphere going to be scary and ominous? i dont know,i have lost faith to all these remakes,reboots,sequels,prequels,whatever crapfest.
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this film does not need to be made...its not like the 2nd one was a masterpiece (though it does hold a nostalgic place in my heart). Guys this should not be A SON OF THE PINK PANTHER type situation or heaven forbid the old guys strapping on the suits again..i cant remember the last time Akroyd was funny and Murray hasnt been in a "funny" movie in ages...c'mon guys let it go, we can always watch the first ad infinitum
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wasnt aykroyd behind that sequel too? oh boy...
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This story is the "passing of the torch" to a younger generation. He also specifically name-dropped Jack Black as being involved.Not saying he's right, or even if he knows what he's talking about. But that's what he said when he was on WBCN here in Boston the other day. Of course, this also was discussed after he told a story about seeing a UFO... *shrug*Not holding my breath. The last time we had a fat funny-man that brought in decent numbers (Farley), he and other comic heavy hitters of the time were attached to an idea that went nowhere.Now that I think about it, Dan seems to be sticking to the plotline that was being discussed back in the early 90's. Yeah, I'm not buying any of this until we see it in a theater.
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It's his get get out of jail free card he's been holding on to for the past twenty years (much like Ford with Indy IV and Arnold with T3). He knew that all he had to do was say yes and it would get greenlit, he just waited for a time when he needed a really big paycheck, which would be now after the big divorce he just went through.
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I had to say it
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Christian Bale as a ghostbuster - 'I'm gonna fucking kick your fucking ass'. Now that would be worth ten bucks.
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Wait, what movie are we talking about?
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No one is wanting this.
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Bale as Venkman!
"Everytime I'm trying to do an interview on World of the Psychic, Egon is screwing with the fucking lights!!! Do I go over do-di-do-di-do and fuck with your PKE meter? Do I? GIVE ME A FUCKING ANSWERR!!!!!!!" -
Here are some ideas on how this could work:
-As stated, all four original members must be there
-I think we should begin with maybe a couple of younger ghostbusters with Vankman as their boss or something...(it would make sense that over 20 years after the organization was formed that there would be more than four of them...)
-The original guys will come back together when these younger ones get in over their heads and become ghosts themselves..this could be interesting as they would know the strategies the GBs use to catch ghosts and could make life hell for them
-William Atherton should be Peck again...only this time he is the mayor of NY.
-Slimer CANNOT return
-Rick Moranis should NOT try to get a paycheck
-Annie Potts should show up
-The humor should be the same as the type of humor in the original...let's not modernize this film to reflect American Pie or Van Wilder humor...as much as we all love a good R or PG-13, this should be a PG film as was the original
-Just for the hell of it, have a couple of ghosts that look like the Blues Brothers
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deez nutz!
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no one is busting on Ghostbusters 2. I found it absolutely awful compared to the first one....let's just hope a 3rd entry is a step up.
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He could play the new recruit!
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I'm putting my money down for this lineup.
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Didn't Indy IV make an obscene amount of money? Something like 787 million? Those kinds of movies get even more sequels.
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It was like "WOOOSH!"
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Seriously. Lets not kid ourselves. His 'I'm an affable dumbshit' routine's already older than Will Ferrell's stale act. I don't hate the guy or anything, but he's not Jesus 2: The Return-ening...he works best in small doses...so yeah, keep him and that fat Chris Penn sequel (Jonah Hill) from this movie. Why can't we have a movie where the old guys just get old?!?
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Two in the box! Ready to go! We be fast and THEY BE SLOW!!!
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They took out most of the horror elements from the first film in an attempt to make it more kid friendly. Other than that though, it's decent enough, just not even close to be as good as the first.
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The game plan from day 1 of shooting on Indy4 was to make a 'passable Indy movie' in order to make the demand for a 5th one a little stronger.
If Indy4 blew the doors off the place and was the greatest Indy movie ever made, we'd be clammering about how it was time to end on a good note - let it go out on top. Instead, we get a mediocore watchable movie that doesn't really make us puke in the aisles, but also doesn't really score an A+ rating from the fans.
So how do we fix this? By doing Indy5 and pulling out all the stops - and end it with a cliffhanger to all but ensure a wrap up to the 2nd trilogy.
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Feb 23, 2009 10:52:23 AM CST
Actually Bale and other serious actors would be mindfucking
by most excellent ninja
can you imagine Christian Bale, Paddy Considine, Daniel Day-Lewis and Chiwetel Ejiofor as the new Ghostbusters? Four of the best actors on the planet as the new Ghostbusters? It would be TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION!
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what the fuck?
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Indy 5 has been confirmed since Indy 4 was still in theaters.
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..and he was still slightly awkward and off-kilter in some scenes due to his age. (Oh, and the his script sucked). Indy should have been rebooted with a younger actor (Fillion) or left alone. Same goes for Ghostbusters... old, fat and slow is not how I want to see these classic characters.
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Bring back Murray and Keaton
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"Indy should have been rebooted with a younger actor (Fillion) or left alone." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No Indy just needed a better script.
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there has never or will never be a film with this much time (1989!) in between that has ever been good. There is too much expectation and too much dickery
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Oh right. Nevermind.
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Indy 4 was a bad story..that's all. Harrison Ford was AWESOME as Indy. Everything about his character seemed genuine. It was a labor of love for him and it was great to make it in the 50s with an older Indy. Shia was just Shia...nothing good or bad about his performance as usual. It was nice to see Karen Allen again, but I felt like they could have done more with her. Would I like to see a 5th one? Yes. With Harrison Ford? Yes! With a much better storyline...you bet!
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Jeez, the man had his entire world come crashing down around him, and people bitch because he doesn't want to do Ghostbusters or Bob & Doug. Let the man grieve in peace.
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kinda have to agree with you... I enjoyed myself during IJ4. But, I didn't love it either. My fav in the series is Raiders for basically 2 reasons that don't reappear in the Indy followup films.
1. Indy worked alone: They never were able to get back that feeling of 1 man vs a truck of Nazis. There were points in the Raiders truck chase where Indy is in real peril. And although Sallah and Marion come and go through parts of the film, for the most part, Indy took most of the hits and punches on his own. In subsequent films, they kept adding sidekicks... from Wilie and Shorty... to Henry Jones, Marcus, Sallah (again) & Elsa Schneider (on and off) to a point where it gets silly in IJ4. By the last film it gets too cumbersome: Mutt, Marion, Mac (on and off) and Oxley. All of these characters need screen time and it took the focus off Indy being a smart ass and kicking butt with a bull whip and pistol. Too many characters also takes screen time off the villains so you never really get how smart they are and what a challenge they are for Indy. You knew how clever Belloq was... he had enough time on screen to develop... not so with Spalko, Mola Ram or Donovan.
2. They brought back Marion in name but not character. My feeling is that they got Marion all wrong the second time around. She just wasn't much of a foil for Indy in IJ4. Perhaps because they wrote her far to doe eyed and passive - even goofy. Marion is a sexy tom boy who is a hard as nails bitch. She can drink a man twice her size under the table and deliver a punch like a dude. In IJ4 she was a sweet older mom who gets butterflies in her tummy every time she sees her childhood lost love. They way she was characterized in Frank Darabont's script was fresh and new, but also had nods to the Marion we knew from Raiders.
I enjoyed Indy 4... but I wanted to LOVE Indy4. If they ever do and Indy 5... Indy should work alone.
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We came, we saw, we kicked it's--OWWW, MY HIP!!!
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The problem with Darabont's script is that he didn't write the story he was asked. He was hired to write a 1950s B movie. Instead, he wrote a fan fic with a little 1940s film noir tossed in. He basically shot himself in the foot by trying so hard to reference Raiders every few pages. At times, it felt very much like one of those Indy comics from the 1980s. Marion was more prominent, but she was written as though only 2 or 3 years had passed since Raiders (as opposed to nearly two decades). In addition to containing most of Koepp's biggest offenders, Darabont tossed in stuff that was even more absurd: Indy being eaten by a giant snake, flying through the air between bi-planes, crashing down FOUR giant waterfalls, etc. Not to mention, the aliens aren't revealed until the very end, when Jones kills one by channeling Smith ("Welcome to Earth!"). If nothing else, the final version was at least open about what it was trying to be...with the sci-fi tone being established at the very beginning.
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I want him all over this script.
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at the rate stories have been coming out around here, i'm sure it'll be debunked in the next 6 hours
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He doan' do natting..."
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...is lend his personal trainer to the set. Aykroyd and Ramis have got to be 600 lbs+ combined right now.
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I agree that Indy IV was crowded, but I still absolutely love Short Round as a side kick. "No time for love Dr. Jones!"
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Bring in the Tropic Thunder people.
Stiller as the new Egon
Jack Black as the new Ray
Robert Downey as the new Peter... or Winston -
Has an ape tag along.
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Someone start a petition.
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But I'm surprised at how many people have genuine venom towards GB2. They took a concept they already knew was funny, and made another funny movie. What's wrong with that? Yes, the sucess of the cartoon definitely made the sequel more kid-friendly, but I was a kid then, and I liked it! "Doe....Ray....Egon!!"
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Mortensen.
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They're pretty old.
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...do we really want to see these old geezers huffing and puffing around, chasing after ghosts/gods/medieval serial killers? I mean, really. Wasn't Indiana Jones 4 enough of a disappointment? Like that film, a GB sequel should have been done 10 or 15 years ago - now, like IJ4, it's the genre equivalent of "The Bucket List," something that WILL have to have some teen actor appended to it to draw any business. Bleah.
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HAve all the old guys being retired and bored, maybe havent talked to each other for like 10 years.
Rogen, Hader and Jim from the office bought the franchise and send monthly checks to Murray and company. They get into a whole mess of trouble (maybe Zhul comes back.. but NO Sigourney) and have to call the old guys to come save the day. Add a few cameos and dick jokes and you have a hit! -
Seth Rogen = Ernie Hudson
Bill Hader = Harold Ramis
Aisha Tyler = Dan Aykroyd
John Krasinski = Bill Murray
Danny McBride = Rick Moranis
Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
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These guys are OLD. I wish they'd decided to do this 15 years ago.
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Oh man don't get me wrong... I have never disliked an Indy sidekick... even Willie, although almost as annoying as Jar Jar Binks, sufficiently provoked Indy's ire (like the audience, he couldn't stand her for much of the adventure).
And Shorty was by far the best addition to Temple of Doom. But too much of a good thing is possible and Indy has spent a lot of time in the sequels going after or having to save his sidekicks rather than chasing the the MacGuffin or beating the crap out the bad guys - or vice versa. -
Bring back the original three, give them a tight script, plotwise, to move through and then just let them riff. Works for me.
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I Like De blek whan!!
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It's like they didn't know what to do with the characters as they were at the end of the original ghostbusters - Venkman has the girl, the group becomes successful/celebrities - so they just knocked them down and started over, more or less remaking the first movie just with lots of knowing winks. Not that GB2 didn't have its moments. But it was lazy and unimaginative. Alien3 suffered from the same thing - rather than imagining where they could go with the end of Aliens, they just negate it and start over.
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GB2 did make sense, it was just a poor decision to take the script. Why start off from scratch? GB3 will likely start off the same. GB1 made ghosts out to be this common, bothersome phenomenon at first and then connected the rise of activity to Gozer...GB2 did the same. GB3 they're out of business entirely for over a decade until whatever the main antagonist is causes a hilarious two minute montage of ghostbusting.
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Will Smiff for all roles
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They didn't really have a story to tell, just an excuse to get the gang back together and shoehorn in a successor. Temple of Doom (my favorite) was cartoonish but at least it had a story to tell - Indy getting over artifact lust to care about the people he's stealing from. And Last Crusade was about getting old, dying, and of course (annoyingly in this case) absentee dads... What was Indy 4 about? It was just a bunch of references to movies that were actually about something and were good. Maybe I expect too much from my popcorn movies...
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...this movie will start out with the original crew having just been forced out of retirement to protect the city from a sudden hell-storm and are all promptly killed, except for Ernire Hudson, causing a crew of GB fanboys to be recruited by Husdon to take on the mantle of the Ghost. The twist is that the original crew comes back later in the film as ghosts themselves to assist from the "other side" and their spirit forms will be totally CGI'ed with the original actors doing the voice overs. It will not suck. Seth Rogen (unfortunately) will be cast as a new GB member, and major appearances will be made by Steve Carrell, Rainn Wilson, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and (most likely, but not 100% sure, Ricky Gervais). You heard it here first.
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What a lovely singing voice you must have
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But there'd need to be some really, really good reason to have the original 4 gearing up in their old age OR at least passing the torch on to new recruits.
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GB2 was enjoyable, but not great. The biggest problem I had is how it all said sequel..>I mean even the emblem within the movie had the ghost holding 2 fingers up...that was just stupid. That takes you out of the film and makes it less enjoyable. They should have left everything looking the same.
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Or... maybe a "franchise" as in a bunch of goof-offs decide to buy a Ghostbuster's "franchise" from the original crew and run it in Chicago or something.
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But tricky. I'm sorry to say, but it needs a fresh younger writer and director. Some ideas pitched here (Ghostbusters getting killed, appearing as CGI ghosts with a new set of Ghostbusters is genius, considering the way some of these guys look like today)
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Feb 23, 2009 5:23:41 PM CST
Tomorrow's headline: "Ghostbusters 3 NOT shooting this fall"
by flim springfield
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WTF does that mean?!?!?!? That's not even a fucking sentence. How exactly does one commence a script? BTW, way to mix past present and future tense all into one broken sentence fragment. Now nobody can tell if the script has already been commenced, if it's going to be commenced in the summer, or if it's currently in the process of commencing.
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Talk about TB overkill. We get it. Nobody (save me) enjoys Seth Rogen...in anything...apparently. I'd be more focused on where they're going to take the story. As with a lot of the 80's reboots we've seen, this franchise needs to go to its roots and have the original cast back for a romp while laying the groundwork for some kind of hand off of the "defense science of the next decade".
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No one is stating that Rogen, Stiller, Owen or any other second rate (compared to Murray, Aykroyd ect) comedian will be picking up a proton pack.
Fans are just concerned INCASE this happens. It's best to get in there early and make sure it doesn't happen before it's too late. I seriously doubt that they'd be training new recruits for the new movie for two reasons:
The original cast is PERFECT. No one wants to see new Ghostsbusters and everyone wants Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis back.
They've already done the recruiting new Ghostbusters thing in the very first movie! Rememeber Winston anyone? If, and I mean IF, they need new Ghostbusters then make them members of a rival ghost catching company - rip offs as it were. But the original cast can not be replaced. This is to be one last run for the original team - after that either close the doors to the firehouse forever or keep going for as long as they can. If after this next film you really, really need to do another and can't get the cast back then do a reboot - I don't care. But I want Murray, Aykroyd, Ramis and Hudson back in business one more time. -
Or giant robots. Or both. If not....Fail.
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back to the middle ages... ugh.. no .. that's terrible
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that is if his is to happen, not saying if it's a good or bad idea, i think that shipped has sailed and it's time for new ideas, but nonetheless Murray, Ramis, Akroyd, Hudson should comeback, yeah i've seen them, gray haired, fat and kind of baldding but it would add new dimension to it. Unlike 65 year old Harrison Ford swinging on ropes and doing acrobatic moves, these 4 guys basically walked around looking like lazy dudes even then and did nothing physical really, it was all chemistry, which of course NEVER ages!!
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I actually hope you're right!
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I'm so in for another Ghostbusters!
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With Blues Brothers 2000. Expect the original cast to remain.
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Re: Sequels that were great even after two decades (and three decades since the last good one).
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Does every successful movie from 25 years ago have to be re-made or given a sequel?? Leave them alone and make something new!!
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Spielberg has become a member of the hack pack, but he does know when to stop.
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Let's get serious. The fact that Apatow is producing this is BAD news guys. We're talking about mother f'ing Ghostbusters!!! This movie DEFINED our childhoods. It is a perfect film. It's perfect in the way only Back to the Future is perfect, only MORESO!!! Everything about it works. The script is absolutely brilliant, Kovac's cinematography is truly beautiful, Bernstein's score is extraordinary, and the performances are smart, sophisticated and, above all, subtle. It's a brilliant film and it BELONGS on a pedestal. That it genuinely now looks like Judd Apatow and his flock will be all over it? Well, it's absolutely heartbreaking. Has Ayckroyd really got so desperate for this to happen that he's willing to hand his masterpiece over to a bunch of flavor of the month dick and fart joke comedians? If so, I want to cry. GB3 could be totally epic and beautiful. Another masterpiece. It should be. But the way its going it wont be. Get PT Anderson to direct. Make it two and a half hours long, with serious character development and drama and taking big risks. Make the laughs as dry and intelligent as they were in the first film. Give it some GRAVITAS. If you have to have new recruits in the mix, fine, but don't make it about them, then cast people like Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jeffrey Wright and Philip Seymour Hoffman to play those roles. You know, ACTORS with range, stature, presence and credibility. Not a couple of frat kid comedians. And above all, make the story about these four names: Winstone Zeddemore, Egon Spengler, Raymond Stantz and Dr Peter Venkman. That's what we want. That's what we deserve. That's what GHOSTBUSTERS deserves.
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You make GHOSTBUSTERS sound like freaking APOCALYPSE NOW. It was a pleasant lark of a film, with touches of brilliance and a great spirit of fun. But that's all.
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But the movie we need
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This will never happen. File this next to "Goonies Sequel."
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Give 'em a nice long cameo, even make them integral to the plot, but the thought of Murray, Ackroyd, et al trying to carry the movie is giving me that throbbing in the head that only typically accompanies mention of BLUES BROTHERS 2000 or Steve Martin's PINK PANTHER.
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so would david spade. Only I hope they play different characters to their usual shtick - like the originals did. The ghostbusters world was real and still needs to be. I hope bill murry does become a ghost like he requested
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The should have called GB2 "Ghostbusters 2: The Quickening" because it was THAT BAD!!!
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This has to be a passing of the torch from the Original (Real! LOL!) GHOSTBUSTERS. (Not the lackluster Filmation cash-in)
There is no way in Hell or Heaven, any studio would green light this film if it didn't have legs for a franchise. It's a necessity for the originals to train new guys and gals. The smart way would be to slowly weave them into the fabric of the story and have them take a more "up-front" role in the third act.
I'd like to see Chris Rock, Andy Samberg, Seth Rogan and perhaps a few wild cards. The characters have to be be dorky, crazy or like my man Ernie Hudson "out for a paycheck". Here's a story idea for the brain trust that I'm sure will somehow make this film sorta-fun: the world in in a global recession (so timely) and no one can afford to fight ghosts anymore. Therefore all of the earth is overrun with other worldly nastiness. I hope in my heart that this is a film that because it "wants" to be made. Because honestly, I want to hope that Ramis and company would want to hang out again. I kinda always had that "vibe", like these dudes would have a beer in real life together. I figure it like this: nothing can be worse, more disappointing than Ivan Reitman's "Evolution", that was a Ghostbusters knock off, very poorly executed from the story up.
Just wondering, when do I get to be a contributor? Hell I'll move to Texas! NYC is just too damn cold. Anyways, if ya' need me just GOOGLE Jerry Horror, you'll find me. -
So I take it things aren't going well in your new home? You feel you have to come in here and shout down a load of people, just to make you feel like some sort of demi-god? Well, you're not, you're a fat, hairy little man, and you have my pity. Now, piss off.
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RS: "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man." MV: "Nononononononononono!"
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That's the one Im waiting for. If not that, then at least get me a Mork & Mindy movie or maybe remake Star Wars with Shia Lebouf as Luk and Seth Rogan as Han. Die Hard 5 with Justin Long and Shia? Jackpot!!!
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Somebody please fill me in on what on what this fat-assed stoner pleaser might have to do with this movie? Seriously.
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It just happens to be a COMEDY masterpiece. It was A grade filmmaking all the way from everyone involved. Comedy gets such a bad deal. Nobody seems to realise just what it takes to make a movie as good as Ghostbusters. Pop art can be high art, and Ghostbusters qualifies. It really, really does. Apocalypse Now? ...No. It's better than that.
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I love 'em, the 1980's. In terms of fashion, the eighties look even worse did than the seventies did when it was still the 80's. Now, the 70's look kind of cool because 80's retro is so bad. Still, the films were really good bak then. Popcorn movies were at an all time high. I love superhero flicks but they've sortta killed the big budget R rated action movie. The 80's was the decade for action movies. However, retreads of franchises that have lain dormant since the 1980's are almost always duds and this is coming from someone who enjoyed the second two installments of the Star Wars prequels and Indy 4. Sure, I like them enough for them to be worth the price of the ticket, but I would still prefer to see a new sci-fi fantasy saga come along and blow me away than to retread old favorites. That said, Ghostbusters 3 doesn't sound like it can avoid falling into the "this is just old" trap. Hell, GB2 was a bad movie and everyone knows it. "Why are you came?" is laugh out loud moment but it's the only funny part in the entire Goddamn film! This is not a project without appeal but my gut says it's best to let Ghostbusters rest. I hope the first film comes out on Blue Ray soon...
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No, the seventies still look awful. Even compared to the 80's. Take off those bell-bottoms and coke-bottle glasses and put down the bong, please.
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I'd love him in the film. He's great: a strange, psychotic cross of Murray and Ackroyd. I also like Jonah Hill because he works so well as the a-hole, straight man. And Dwight from the office. The key is the right mix of personalities.
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Terrible. Absolutely terrible.
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fucking excellent.
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I dunno man the 70s still had some sort of sense left, i mean a lot of 70s era movie don't really date, everyone was scruffy and had the generic hippie hair like Dog Day Afternoon, and there was still the cool factor like Bruce Lee, the 80s you had crepe hair, mullets, leg warmers, snoods(walking monks), it was impossible to be cool in that time period, evne Harrison Ford basically said 'fuck all yall my hair will be combed over like from the 40s!'
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80's big budget movies and action movies weren't really that big budget. the superhero movie escalated everything because now they can do things they couldn't do before. that's why superheroes are so synonymous with comic books, imagination was the limit. if it could be imagined, it could be drawn. but that wasn't possible till the lord of the rings movies came out and set up everything else. Temple of Doom wouldn't cost a massive budget if made the same way now.
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that's why I think people should tone down the complaining about CGI a bit, I mean we live in an area in which movies can show us anything a person's imagination can think up and that's pretty fucking cool, but of course a movie still needs a good story and everything, CGI is no replacement for that, but I think people need to stop complaining so much when a movie simply uses CGI, know what I mean?
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I mean to say we live in an ERA not an area
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...better start growing his hair tall pretty soon.
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Feb 24, 2009 5:47:11 AM CST
Isn't the Ghostbusters video game coming out this year?
by spifftacular squirrel girl
Kind of curious if it'll be considered canon... I mean wasn't Akroyd and Ramis involved in the story for the game?
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yeah i might give this a miss.. thank you, but NO!
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Terrible? Well, at least you left Hader out of it. They all are talented. I know there's an Apatow backlash (justified after Pineapple Express which was HORRIBLE except for Franco), but are we forgetting Superbad? Sarah Marshall? Virgin? Hell, that's a comedic renaissance compared to the crap we've had to deal with in years past. And I'll stand by my suggestions. Together, they would be comic gold.
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It's not that I hate them (okay, I hate Jonah Hill - he's not funny at all), its that they're totally wrong for this project. Yes, I'm kinda over the Apatow players. But then Freaks and Geeks is one of my favorite TV shows too, so you know, sometimes I like em. The thing is that we've had four actors playing Ghostbusters (five if you count Moranis), and each of them has been not just funny, but great, great actors and perfect for their roles, with an incredibly dry, intelligent approach to comedy. Apatows guys aren't in that league. And yeah, I may be sorta over that whole comedic posse, but that's not the point. I'm happy for them to go on making movies and for all of those movies to do well. They are just wrong for Ghostbusters. The likes of Bill Murray have something they just don't possess. It's a mistake to just go 'Whos succesful in comedy right now?' and then slot that person into Ghostbusters and expect it to work. The question should be 'Who is amazingly talented and charismatic, has an aura of intelligence but potential for blue collar gritty New York appeal, and has the potential for the kind of dry, subtle comedic delivery that made the first movie so amazing? That's why Chiwetel was such a great suggestion by most excellent ninja. No he's not a comedian. But he's frickin brilliant. We don't want whatever clowns the kids at the mall think is cool these days - we want Ghostbusters. And frankly, as we've already got four who are already perfect, I'd just as soon focus on them. But if we absolutely must have new recruits, then we should be using the right actors, because whoever they cast has A LOT to live up to. You really think Jonah Hill and Dwight could pull off a proton pack? ...I hope you don't work in Hollywood. ;)
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Though I think Chiwetel would spend the whole movie looking lost (because he would be). I still love the idea of Bill Hader. I think he has the whole package. I'd say, only one new guy and then people the rest of the cast with great actors, yes. However, if they refused to focus on the original actors (my preference) or went with the legacy/series approach, then it's a matter of casting and how these people play off one another. Personally, I think Jonah Hill is hilarious and the guy who plays Dwight has a certain oddness that might fit in that universe (think a sociopathic Moranis).
I do see where you're coming from. I just disagree. I'm not looking for "nice" funny. I'm looking for a bit of strangeness from a new character that might engage the wonderful original cast. Of course the film should revolve around Murray--that's a no-brainer. -
Feb 24, 2009 7:48:32 AM CST
(Jerry Horror) Samberg? I hereby revoke your talkback membersh
by criticalbliss
Please keep Samberg out of everything--ever. He's has one thing in common with Jimmy Fallon. He's never been funny in his life. We'll end up with a stupid, duck-lipped moron hitting on guys and laughing at the "High-larity". No. Fucking. Way.
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i will see that
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Now, THAT is actually an interesting proposition.
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No way! Picture him delivering dialogue like that Winston stuff from part I about the Bible and imagine how cool that would be. Imagine him doing a New York accent and being really laid back and smooth. Not a talkative Ghostbuster. A cool, quiet Ghostbuster.
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I can't see how Chiwetel would fit.
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Liam Neeson can be the father figure role that he plays so well in all his other films.
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That was the show he was on.
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That's such a fucking stupid idea, but something I could DEFINITELY see actually happening. It would end the trailer to the movie too.
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Here's what you do.
The Ghostbusters real life is being made into a movie.
You open it up with Bill watching the guys on TV. They are on Leno. Pete laughs at how stupid they look in the Original Uniforms.
Egon and Ray wrote a book, that's being made into a big budget movie with A-list Comedians.
Leno asks Ray if the film will use Real Ghosts or if they will use Special Effects. Ray tells him that there will be no CGI- It will be 100 percent practical, and by practical we mean "No fake ghosts!"
Leno asks Ray where all the ghost are that they busted over the years. Ray explains that he and Egon built a storage unit in his garage shortly before they retired.
Cue funny "Wife's gotta love that" joke.
Peter heads to the bathroom. He takes a leak. He looks into the mirror before heading back to his bedroom. He feels a sudden pain in his chest. We can hear his heart thumping wildly
Peter: "Shit...."
Peter turns the sink faucet on. He reaches into his pajamas. He produces a bottle of nitrate pills. He fights to open them, They spill all over the bathroom counter. He picks one up, he puts the pill in his mouth. He cups his hand under the faucet, He fills it with water, He lifts it up to his mouth. He's about to drink it down- When he notices Dana standing behind him in the mirror.
Peter: "Dana?"
The water runs out of his hand onto his shirt.
He dry swallows the pill in shock..
She disappears.
His heart clams itself.
Cut to the next morning- Peters phone rings. He answers it.
Peter: "Hello?"
Ray: "Who You Gonna Call.."
Peter looks at his clock.
Peter: "It's 5:30 in the morning Ray..."
Ray: "Get cleaned up Pete. Were 30 minutes from the house.. Winston's flight was delayed because of snow. We have to pick him up at LGA."
Peter: "Wonderful..."
Peter hangs the phone up.
The doorbell rings. Peter pears out the window. The Ecto 1 is in the driveway.
Pete opens the door. The crew is dressed up in the original outfits. Peter does a double take, and then he laughs. He comments on Egon's diet working out well for him (An obvious pun, Egon is fat- He's also eating a doughnut)
Egon replies back "Nice Beard Joaquin"
Ray Hands Peter a dunkin doughnuts coffee and his original Ghostbusters suit in a dry clean bag.
Peter: "I'm not wearing this.. You guys looks stupid."
Ray: "Did you see us on Leno the other night??"
Peter: "No, Sadly I missed it..."
Cut to the boys in the Ecto 1 driving to LGA.
Peter rides shot gun. There's a trap resting in the armrest.
Pete: "Ray???"
Ray: "Yeah Pete?"
Peter: "What's in the box, Ray?"
Ray: "Our Original bust.".
Pete. "The Spud..."
Pete: "Why..."
Egon: "Were going to release it on stage during our Comic Con panel and recapture it... Increase the hype machine. It'll be fun.. The crowds gonna love it.."
Pete: "Remind me again how much I'm getting paid to do this.."
Ray: "Show him the poster, Egon."
Egon unbuckles himself in the back seat, He reaches into the coffin area of the Ecto1. He grabs a poster tube. He takes the poster out and hands it to Pete.
Peter looks it over. Seth Rogan is Ray, Adam Sandler is Peter, Chris Rock is Winston, and Steve Carell is Egon.
Peter: "Whats with all the Jews.."
Peter: Egon's the only Jew here and He's being played by a Non Jew.. Peter looks at Adam Sandler:
Peter: "I hate this guy."
They arrive at LGA they head into the airport.
Security stops them at the door.
Security to Ray: "Sir you can't come in here wearing that stuff."
Ray: "It's OK, it's my work outfit."
Peter: "He's retired"
Ray: "It's for a Comic Book Convention, Hollywood's making a movie about us."
Peter: "Don't mind these two. They were dropped on their heads when the Towers fell.."
Ray: "You watch Leno.."
Security Guard: "Yeah..."
Ray: "Did you watch it last night?"
Guard: "No I was working."
Ray: "We're the Ghostbusters... "
Security Guard: "Oh Yeah, I've heard of you guys. The Gaint Staypuff Attack near Central Park"
Ray: "Were here to pick up another former Ghostbuster."
Security Guard: "Yeah, well your not going to get past the baggage claim area dressed like that."
Ray and Egon look at Peter...
Peter: "I'll meet you guys in the car."
Peter sits in the lobby, waiting for Winston to arrive. He watches the TV.
TV- Today Show:
Interviewer: "Time for one of our exclusive interviews with a talented comedian who got his big break on Saturday Night Live. He hit the big time in a film called "Happy Gilmore" and cemented his Comedic star status with the "Wedding Singer"
These days Adam Sandler heads his own Empire "Happy Madison Productions."
I spoke with Him and co-star Seth Rogan about their new film " The Ghostbusters".
A Film based on a Book that Chronicles the real life exploits of a group of Unemployed Parapsychology Professors from Columbia University- Who start a Ghost Investigation and Removal Service called the Ghostbusters.
So what attracted Adam to the produce a film based on the real life exploits in the book.
Adam Sandler: The fact that one of the original Ghostbusters offered it to me... That's probably the biggest thing I like, I don't know, I knew a little about the Real Story. My wife read it to me, I thought it was funny. I like the idea of playing a deadbeat guy who just lost his job studying the card guessing abilities of his patients- Who starts a Ghostbusting service with his Friends from college.
::::Various replayed scenes come on the screen showing hollywood'ish like versions of our original gangs exploits:::
Peter looks over the the woman seated near him.
Peter: "Can you believe that talentless asshole is supposed to be me...."
TV Narrator: The film also Co-stars "Knocked Up" "Pineapple Expresses" Seth Rogan as Raymond Stantz- One of the original Busters and Author of the Book.
Seth Rogan On TV: "I was pretty Stoned when Adam called me up. He said something about 3 unemployed nerdy smart losers who start a Ghostbusting service, They drive a hearse, use converted weedwackers that shoot laserbeams to lasso and capture spooks in a box that sucks them up, and that's pretty much all I needed to hear... So um
Winston taps Peter on the shoulder.
Winston: Pete!
Peter drops his coffee spilling it on his pants.
He jumps up.
Peter: Jesus That's hot! Damnit now I'm going have to wear that stupid suit!
Winston: "I'm sorry, man"
Winston hugs Pete
Peter: "Not so close... Your gonna get a wet spot on your jeans as well, and then we'll really look dumb.."
Winston: "Where are the others?"
Peter: "Out in the Hearse, listen to Howard Stern"
Winston: "Can you believe they actually made a movie about us."
Peter:" Lets go get your bags. Don;t wanna be late for the Fat Losers who love Funny Books convention."
OK that's about all I can pull out right now, before this thread disapears.
So here's where I'm thinking the story goes...
The film of the Ghostbusters is 70 percent done, they still have to film the ghost scenes, since Ray is needed on set to supervise and recapture them.
The Staypuff is going to be a CGI. The trailer they show at Comic Con shows him, and he looks like an obvious CGI character. The crowd starts shouting the words "Real Ghost" "Real Ghost" over an over again.
Adam Sandler bust out from behind the curtain wearing a Ghostbusters suit and a "Real" Proton pack.
He says "I Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts", and the real Slimer comes flying out at the audience.
Adam shoots the photon beam around the room like an amature while trying to capture Slimer. Nearly killing some of the Geeks in the audience. It's hard to know what to be more in fear of. Adam Amature Sandler trying to recapture the Slimer, or Slimer himself.
Before this though, we see a scene with Adam Sandler getting into an argument with Peter before the panel starts. Adam goes off about "Him" being the guy who catches the ghost after Ray releases it.
Pete tells him that he doesn't understand the dangers of using the Photon pack. Adam's agent intervenes and he wins, Ray and Egon give a quick run down of how to use it.
Like I said before up there /\- it goes horribly wrong.
When he finally comes out near the end after Ray releases Slimer from the trap. He gets carried away and comes pretty close to hurting the fans. Hell all the actors sitting at the tables duck for cover and run away, The photo beam hits the Plasma TV scene with the trailer playing blowing it up when the CGI Staypuff man is on it as a close up shot of his face when he is being hit by the photon beams in the actual movie.
Pete rushes Adam he knocks him down. Peter takes the pack off of Adam. Pete captures slimmer and apologizes to everyone for what happened. Him and Adam get into to it on stage. Adam pushes him he falls off the stage. Peter suffers a heart attack, and he's rushed to the hospital. He leaves his body and travels into the beyond.
Dana meets up with him. Pete tells her how much he's missed her. She tells him she's his escort to the other side. She grabs his hand. As they travel towards the light. He notices something is not right about her. He realizes it's Zuul. He breaks free from her grip.
He races back to his Body. Zuul takes Chase. They both enter his body at the same time. We get a strange scene with Zuul fighting him inside his own body. Like Dana's changearoo scene in the original.
Zuul wins. She uses his body gets on the set of the Original Film. The Real ghosts shots are being shot. Zuul possessed Peter releases all the Ghosts and then He/she grabs a power feed line to one of the lights and kills Peters body, so She can lead her new ghost army to take over the world.
Peters soul is released went this happens, and He travels into Adam Sandlers body, He helps the Actors and the Original Busters in the fight to re contain all the Ghosts and defeat Zuul again. Cause well When Zuul did what she did. It pretty much shadows the hell near end event of the original. NY 100 times more ghost freaky than NY was in the original. Zuul is back in command!
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Here's what you do.
The Ghostbusters real life is being made into a movie.
You open it up with Bill watching the guys on TV. They are on Leno. Pete laughs at how stupid they look in the Original Uniforms.
Egon and Ray wrote a book, that's being made into a big budget movie with A-list Comedians.
Leno asks Ray if the film will use Real Ghosts or if they will use Special Effects. Ray tells him that there will be no CGI- It will be 100 percent practical, and by practical we mean "No fake ghosts!"
Leno asks Ray where all the ghost are that they busted over the years. Ray explains that he and Egon built a storage unit in his garage shortly before they retired.
Cue funny "Wife's gotta love that" joke.
Peter heads to the bathroom. He takes a leak. He looks into the mirror before heading back to his bedroom. He feels a sudden pain in his chest. We can hear his heart thumping wildly
Peter: "Shit...."
Peter turns the sink faucet on. He reaches into his pajamas. He produces a bottle of nitrate pills. He fights to open them, They spill all over the bathroom counter. He picks one up, he puts the pill in his mouth. He cups his hand under the faucet, He fills it with water, He lifts it up to his mouth. He's about to drink it down- When he notices Dana standing behind him in the mirror.
Peter: "Dana?"
The water runs out of his hand onto his shirt.
He dry swallows the pill in shock..
She disappears.
His heart clams itself.
Cut to the next morning- Peters phone rings. He answers it.
Peter: "Hello?"
Ray: "Who You Gonna Call.."
Peter looks at his clock.
Peter: "It's 5:30 in the morning Ray..."
Ray: "Get cleaned up Pete. Were 30 minutes from the house.. Winston's flight was delayed because of snow. We have to pick him up at LGA."
Peter: "Wonderful..."
Peter hangs the phone up.
The doorbell rings. Peter pears out the window. The Ecto 1 is in the driveway.
Pete opens the door. The crew is dressed up in the original outfits. Peter does a double take, and then he laughs. He comments on Egon's diet working out well for him (An obvious pun, Egon is fat- He's also eating a doughnut)
Egon replies back "Nice Beard Joaquin"
Ray Hands Peter a dunkin doughnuts coffee and his original Ghostbusters suit in a dry clean bag.
Peter: "I'm not wearing this.. You guys looks stupid."
Ray: "Did you see us on Leno the other night??"
Peter: "No, Sadly I missed it..."
Cut to the boys in the Ecto 1 driving to LGA.
Peter rides shot gun. There's a trap resting in the armrest.
Pete: "Ray???"
Ray: "Yeah Pete?"
Peter: "What's in the box, Ray?"
Ray: "Our Original bust.".
Pete. "The Spud..."
Pete: "Why..."
Egon: "Were going to release it on stage during our Comic Con panel and recapture it... Increase the hype machine. It'll be fun.. The crowds gonna love it.."
Pete: "Remind me again how much I'm getting paid to do this.."
Ray: "Show him the poster, Egon."
Egon unbuckles himself in the back seat, He reaches into the coffin area of the Ecto1. He grabs a poster tube. He takes the poster out and hands it to Pete.
Peter looks it over. Seth Rogan is Ray, Adam Sandler is Peter, Chris Rock is Winston, and Steve Carell is Egon.
Peter: "Whats with all the Jews.."
Peter: Egon's the only Jew here and He's being played by a Non Jew.. Peter looks at Adam Sandler:
Peter: "I hate this guy."
They arrive at LGA they head into the airport.
Security stops them at the door.
Security to Ray: "Sir you can't come in here wearing that stuff."
Ray: "It's OK, it's my work outfit."
Peter: "He's retired"
Ray: "It's for a Comic Book Convention, Hollywood's making a movie about us."
Peter: "Don't mind these two. They were dropped on their heads when the Towers fell.."
Ray: "You watch Leno.."
Security Guard: "Yeah..."
Ray: "Did you watch it last night?"
Guard: "No I was working."
Ray: "We're the Ghostbusters... "
Security Guard: "Oh Yeah, I've heard of you guys. The Gaint Staypuff Attack near Central Park"
Ray: "Were here to pick up another former Ghostbuster."
Security Guard: "Yeah, well your not going to get past the baggage claim area dressed like that."
Ray and Egon look at Peter...
Peter: "I'll meet you guys in the car."
Peter sits in the lobby, waiting for Winston to arrive. He watches the TV.
TV- Today Show:
Interviewer: "Time for one of our exclusive interviews with a talented comedian who got his big break on Saturday Night Live. He hit the big time in a film called "Happy Gilmore" and cemented his Comedic star status with the "Wedding Singer"
Guy On TV: "These days Adam Sandler heads his own Empire "Happy Madison Productions."
"I spoke with Him and co-star Seth Rogan about their new film " The Ghostbusters"."
"A Film based on a Book that Chronicles the real life exploits of a Group of Unemployed Parapsychology Professors from Columbia University- Who start a Ghost Investigation and Removal Service called the Ghostbusters."
"So what attracted Adam to the produce a film based on the real life exploits in the book."
Adam Sandler: "The fact that one of the original Ghostbusters offered it to me... That's probably the biggest thing I like, I don't know, I knew a little about the Real Story. My wife read it to me, I thought it was funny. I like the idea of playing a deadbeat guy who just lost his job studying the card guessing abilities of his patients- Who starts a Ghostbusting service with his Friends from college."
::::Various replayed scenes come on the screen showing hollywood'ish like versions of our original gangs exploits:::
Peter looks over the the woman seated near him.
Peter: "Can you believe that talentless asshole is supposed to be me...."
TV Narrator: The film also Co-stars "Knocked Up" "Pineapple Expresses" Seth Rogan as Raymond Stantz- One of the original Busters and Author of the Book.
Seth Rogan On TV: "I was pretty Stoned when Adam called me up. He said something about 3 unemployed nerdy smart losers who start a Ghostbusting service, They drive a hearse, use converted weedwackers that shoot laserbeams to lasso and capture spooks in a box that sucks them up, and that's pretty much all I needed to hear... So um
Winston taps Peter on the shoulder.
Winston: Pete!
Peter drops his coffee spilling it on his pants.
He jumps up.
Peter: Jesus That's hot! Damn it now I'm going have to wear that stupid suit!
Winston: "I'm sorry, man"
Winston Hugs Pete
Peter: "Not so close... Your gonna get a wet spot on your jeans as well, and then we'll really look dumb.."
Winston: "Where are the others?"
Peter: "Out in the Hearse, listen to Howard Stern"
Winston: "Can you believe they actually made a movie about us."
Peter:" Lets go get your bags. Don;t wanna be late for the Fat Losers who love Funny Books convention."
OK that's about all I can pull out right now, before this thread disapears.
So here's where I'm thinking the story goes...
The film of the Ghostbusters is 70 percent done, they still have to film the ghost scenes, since Ray is needed on set to supervise and recapture them.
The Staypuff is going to be a CGI. The trailer they show at Comic Con shows him, and he looks like an obvious CGI character. The crowd starts shouting the words "Real Ghost" "Real Ghost" over an over again.
Adam Sandler bust out from behind the curtain wearing a Ghostbusters suit and a "Real" Proton pack.
He says "I Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts", and the real Slimer comes flying out at the audience.
Adam shoots the photon beam around the room like an amature while trying to capture Slimer. Nearly killing some of the Geeks in the audience. It's hard to know what to be more in fear of. Adam Amature Sandler trying to recapture the Slimer, or Slimer himself.
Before this though, we see a scene with Adam Sandler getting into an argument with Peter before the panel starts. Adam goes off about "Him" being the guy who catches the ghost after Ray releases it.
Pete tells him that he doesn't understand the dangers of using the Photon pack. Adam's agent intervenes and he wins, Ray and Egon give a quick run down of how to use it.
Like I said before up there /\- it goes horribly wrong.
When he finally comes out near the end after Ray releases Slimer from the trap. He gets carried away and comes pretty close to hurting the fans. Hell all the actors sitting at the tables duck for cover and run away, The photo beam hits the Plasma TV scene with the trailer playing blowing it up when the CGI Staypuff man is on it as a close up shot of his face when he is being hit by the photon beams in the actual movie.
Pete rushes Adam he knocks him down. Peter takes the pack off of Adam. Pete captures slimmer and apologizes to everyone for what happened. Him and Adam get into to it on stage. Adam pushes him he falls off the stage. Peter suffers a heart attack, and he's rushed to the hospital. He leaves his body and travels into the beyond.
Dana meets up with him. Pete tells her how much he's missed her. She tells him she's his escort to the other side. She grabs his hand. As they travel towards the light. He notices something is not right about her. He realizes it's Zuul. He breaks free from her grip.
He races back to his Body. Zuul takes Chase. They both enter his body at the same time. We get a strange scene with Zuul fighting him inside his own body. Like Dana's changearoo scene in the original.
Zuul wins. She uses his body gets on the set of the Original Film. The Real ghosts shots are being shot. Zuul possessed Peter releases all the Ghosts and then He/she grabs a power feed line to one of the lights and kills Peters body, so She can lead her new ghost army to take over the world.
Peters soul is released went this happens, and He travels into Adam Sandlers body, He helps the Actors and the Original Busters in the fight to re contain all the Ghosts and defeat Zuul again. Cause well When Zuul did what she did. It pretty much shadows the hell near end event of the original. NY 100 times more ghost freaky than NY was in the original. Zuul is back in command!
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Orcus congrats you on you new endeavors
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Shut the fuck up. -
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Your'e So Cool Brewster!
You look like Gabriel Jarret in Real Genius... Damn.. Sucks to be you dude! -
I've stated this in about every Ghostbusters talkback that's happened in the past couple of years, but it needs to be reiterated. Whoever's casting this movie has to think very hard about who the "comedians of today" are. This is not the 80's when we had important comedy troupes like those involved with SNL or SCTV really pushing the boundaries of comedy. Today, there's a lazier sort of reliance on pushing the envelope rather than striving for writing strong content and timing delivery, and Apatow and crew are definitely some of the most guilty. Where do we go for the right new team? Hell, I really don't know, but it had better not be anyone younger than 30 years old... seriously. All the original GB's were in their mid 30's and were already wet behind the ears when Ghostbusters came out in '84, and their experience definitely shows. Trying to get the same kind of chemistry these guys had is kind of like capturing lightning in a bottle and I really worry that they're going to end up casting actors who are "hot" right now. In all honesty, I'd actually look to some of the better stand-up comedians for talent. Guys like Russel Peters and Jim Gaffigan. I think they could bring the right dynamic to this franchise. And for those who are not up on current GB trends, this is what's been going on: The ghostbusters video game that was supposed to be released this past october has been pushed to June this summer to coordinate with the 25th anniversary blu-ray release of the movie, as well as tons of new toys and further anniversary-related stuff. The interest in the game so far (and Sony has REALLY been going balls-out in supporting it financially) has been really impressive, which is why they're simultaneously looking to write a script for a new film. All 4 GBs (YES, even Bill Murray) have expressed interest, and writing is very much underway, so don't be surprised in the least if this movie ends up being a reality. We'll know better once sales stats start coming in from the video game in June, so preorder your copy now. (It really does look excellent, and the gap between the original release date and this upcoming June has allowed them to polish it even more). It really is a great time to be a Ghostbuster fan. PS: Leave Rick Moranis alone... he's gone through some tough shit lately.
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If you're going to beat the corpse of a horse, you might as well get it right on the first few swings.
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Ray: Hey, did you guys know notice that they finally have paragraph breaks on AICN?
Egon: No, Ray. But let me ask you, what does that have to do with busting ghosts?
Peter: Nothing, Egon. But let me pose you a real humdinger. In the first few seasons of The Real Ghostbusters, the character of Peter Venkman, me, was voiced by Lorenzo Music, who also did the voice of Garfield on the old cartoon. Does anyone here get the irony?
Egon: No, not really.
Peter: The actor who plays me also plays Garfield. Come on, who also played Garfield?
Ray: Bill Murray?
Peter: Yes! And what does that mean?
Ray: That you and Bill Murray are also Garfield?
Peter: No!
Ray: I don't get it.
Peter: That's because you're fucking stupid, Ray!
Ray: Well, you're being self-referential, Peter. This is the 80's. We don't do self-reference here. That doesn't come along until the 90's.
Peter: Your mom goes to college! -
Adam Sandler tried to step-in and stop Zuul/Peter. When Zuul/Peter killed Peters body by touching the cut electrical wires to the lights.
So Adam was electrocuted in the melee- Peters soul is free'd from his body- Zuul also leaves it, Peter takes possession of Adam Sandlers body who was also temo killed but not as bad. Peters body is charred beef.
. Confused yet... Sorry I wrote that all in about 2 hours. I guess you could cut to Adam coming too after Ray preforms CPR, and he claims to be Peter and he tries to explain to the guys what happened. Then it's War time. -
Or live long enough to see your digital images put into the video game.
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but after all your bogus "news" lately, I have to say I'll believe it when I see it.
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Feb 25, 2009 12:13:48 PM CST
Only three actors come to mind as Ghostbusters-worthy
by smoke monster loves kate
Stephen Colbert, Steve Carrell, and Jon Stewart. They could do the kind of comedy that was in the original. I can't think of anyone else that will come close. Colbert might even make a better Egon than Ramis.
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Feb 25, 2009 1:06:59 PM CST
Correction to all the bitches. Indy 4 was a great adventure film
by proman1984
You know what an Adventure Film is and how it should be done, right? That's what Indy 4 is and it's damn fucking great. No you can resume fucking yourselves.
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I'm so excited for this movie.. It seems that lately they've been really trying to bring the Ghostbusters back into the mainstream eye, with the new game and by releasing The Real Ghostbusters on dvd. Getting the hype moving so this movie can come out with a bang!
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