Word on the street (said street being a newspaper writer’s interwebs blog) is that in yet another attempt by Hollywood to rape my psyche and ruin all of my fondest memories of growing up, a third Ghostbusters is in the works. In an email from Harold Ramis:
yes, columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my year one writing partners, gene stupnitsky and lee eisenberg. judd apatow is co-producing year one and has made several other films for sony, so of course the studio is hoping to tap into some of the same acting talent. aykroyd, ivan reitman and i are consulting at this point, and according to dan, bill murray is willing to be involved on some level. he did record his dialogue for the new ghostbusters video game, as did danny and i, and ernie hudson. the concept is that the old ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity. not much else to say at this point. everyone is confident a decent script can be written and i guess we’ll take it from there.
best,
harold
Because this is exactly how I wanted to start my weekend. Drunk by 11 and news of a new Ghostbusters flick. Wait, that is exactly how I wanted to start my weekend. Seriously, though, why can’t Hollywood leave the 80s alone? All of my fondest and sadly nostalgic memories of the 80s are based on the movies and TV shows I watched growing up (and also Atari). As much as I love (both emotionally and physically) the Ghostbusters movies, I can’t force myself to believe that this one will be any good. Look at the drastic drop in quality from the first to the second movie – how can a third movie twenty years later be anything but a letdown? Especially with the premise of the original ghostbusters mentoring new, Apatownian ones (the potential for ghost masturbation, ghost pregnancy and ghost drug use is right off the PKE meter), helping them to provide every frat boy idiot on the planet with new cliche jokes and bar conversation topics that predominantly involve word-for-word recitation of scenes from the movie. That being said, I will probably go see it. If for no other reason than the Better Off Dead sequel hasn’t been made. Yet.
