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post #1 of 23
11/2/10 at 9:50am
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Ghostbusters 3 start date?

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post #2 of 23
11/2/10 at 10:51am
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...Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg (both from the American version of The Office)...
Also, YEAR ONE. Uuuurgh
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post #3 of 23
11/2/10 at 11:19am
I want/don't want this film to happen n
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post #4 of 23
11/2/10 at 11:28am
three weeks from now, Sony will be reporting that the start date is getting pushed back to a TBD date due to script concerns and Murray not willing to sign on.
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post #5 of 23
11/2/10 at 11:30am
I have a really bad feeling this will bomb terribly, much like a remake of Back To The Future would be. It was the perfect film with the right talent both in front and behind the camera.

If they really were going to have a sequel, I'd like to see this world where the supernatural has been overwhelmingly shown as quite real as opposed to superstition. The first movie could have been blown off as mass hysteria (well, except for the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man talking out downtown, but you couldn't take Lady Liberty and walk her through the city without millions having epiphanies about the world around them.
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post #6 of 23
11/2/10 at 11:36am
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Originally Posted by MoonBaseNick View Post
I want/don't want this film to happen n
Bill Murray's got the comic role of a lifetime! Dan Aykroyd would never lie about that!
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post #7 of 23
11/2/10 at 11:44am
Ah, the Möbius strip that is Ghostbusters 3 news.
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post #8 of 23
11/2/10 at 11:46am
I still have the image of Ernie Hudson calling up Bill Murray and telling him Year One sucked stuck in my head and it's hilarious.
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post #9 of 23
11/2/10 at 11:55am
I'm the resident Ghostbusters fanatic for this particular parallel dimension, and I can say from the bottom of my heart that this film must never ever happen. NEVER.
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post #10 of 23
11/2/10 at 12:01pm
Oh it's going to happen eventually, Greg. And you'll see it. And you may well cry.
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post #11 of 23
11/2/10 at 1:18pm
There's no real reason for this to be made, at least not that I can see from here. Maybe it'll be a fun time at the cinema and a respectful third entry in the series. Maybe it'll be a pile of shit, which is more what I'd expect from it. Either way there isn't a really appreciable reason for this to be made, unless I'm ignorant of a huge cultural demand for more Ghostbusters movies, and I'll be totally honest-- I'm surprised that it's going forward at all (for the time being).
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post #12 of 23
11/2/10 at 4:04pm
I love the first one, obviously. Who doesn't? I even like a lot of the 2nd.

But this franchise has been theatrically defunk for far too long. I really have a hard time thinking it will be good.
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post #13 of 23
11/2/10 at 5:44pm
I can't really see any good coming out of this. Bill Murray should just keep doing stuff like Get Low, and not risk the possibility of embarrassing himself with a sub-par sequel.

That being said, if he does agree to do it, I have to think that the script has something worthwhile in it.
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post #14 of 23
11/2/10 at 5:46pm
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But this franchise has been theatrically defunk for far too long. I really have a hard time thinking it will be good.
If it came out tomorrow, the gap would be five years greater than the gap between Godfather II and III. Get y'all's head around THAT one.
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post #15 of 23
11/2/10 at 6:01pm
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There's no real reason for this to be made, at least not that I can see from here.
Money, that's it. Somebody thinks that it would be profitable. Quality is totally secondary to the prospect that they may be able to make money off of flogging this truly dead horse.
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post #16 of 23
11/2/10 at 6:06pm
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Originally Posted by Judas Booth View Post
Money, that's it. Somebody thinks that it would be profitable. Quality is totally secondary to the prospect that they may be able to make money off of flogging this truly dead horse.
Oh definitely, I just want to know why that somebody thinks that a Ghostbusters movie released today would make a profit.
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post #17 of 23
11/2/10 at 6:12pm
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Oh definitely, I just want to know why that somebody thinks that a Ghostbusters movie released today would make a profit.
Especially when you consider the huge budget that the film will probably require. This will be a CGI mess of catastrophic proportions and you know it.
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post #18 of 23
11/2/10 at 6:13pm
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Oh definitely, I just want to know why that somebody thinks that a Ghostbusters movie released today would make a profit.
Are you kidding? Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Star Trek, Rocky, ect.. All dead franchises returning two decades later making big profits. Resurrecting 80's properties is easy money.
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post #19 of 23
11/2/10 at 6:17pm
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Originally Posted by agracru View Post
Oh definitely, I just want to know why that somebody thinks that a Ghostbusters movie released today would make a profit.
In theory it's a premise that seems like it has a couple of movies left in it. Despite Ghostbusters 2 proving the original was lightning in a bottle.

There's also a pretty large stable of comedic actors from the last decade which didn't really exist in the '90s, coupled with '80s nostalgia currently in full bloom, and well, here we are.
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post #20 of 23
11/2/10 at 6:20pm
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Are you kidding? Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Star Trek, Rocky, ect.. All dead franchises returning two decades later making big profits. Resurrecting 80's properties is easy money.
A valid point, although there were only 2 entries in the GB 'franchise', the last of which is almost universally disliked.
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post #21 of 23
11/2/10 at 6:28pm
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Are you kidding? Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Star Trek, Rocky, ect.. All dead franchises returning two decades later making big profits. Resurrecting 80's properties is easy money.
I think comparing Ghostbusters to any of those franchises is being incredibly generous. Not that I don't see your point, I just have a hard time accepting that a modern Ghostbusters film would clean up nearly as well as new installments in the franchises you list here.
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post #22 of 23
11/2/10 at 6:31pm
Purely anecdotal evidence, but I wore a Ghostbusters t-shirt (it looks like their jumpsuit) to the PSU game on Saturday night. While walking through State College and tailgaiting outside the stadium, there were probably about 10 different little kids who ran up and excitedly yelled, "GHOSTBUSTERS!"
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post #23 of 23
11/2/10 at 6:34pm
Yeah, not that I really want it, but another Ghostbusters seems like less a financial risk than a sequel to Tron.

edit -english I are not today good.
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