Ghostbusters 3 News By George 'El Guapo' Roush on September 5, 2008I love the Ghostbusters movies. Well, I love the first one anyway. The second reeked of studio head interference and shitty references to whatever was currently "hot" at the time (Bobby Brown). Still, I will be buying both when they're released on Blu-Ray.
Now comes news from the trades that Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, writers of the hit television show The Office, wrote a script for a part 3 that brings back the original cast of Ghostbusters. I'm sure a lot of this has to do with the buzz surrounding the videogame coming out soon featuring the voice talents of the original cast, but this is pretty cool that they're writing up a script for a third film.
Studio would not comment on the development and has been mum on recent rumors that there was interest in making another installment of the franchise.
The scribes just wrote "Year One," a comedy that was directed by Ramis. Ramis with Aykroyd wrote the first two installments of the films. Ivan Reitman directed both the 1984 original and the sequel that was released in 1989. The close proximity between the writers and original Ghostbuster Ramis is evidence that the ghost chasers have sparked to the idea of returning.
"Ghostbusters" was Columbia's highest grossing film ever, until it was beaten by "Men in Black" and then "Spider-Man." An attempt to make a third installment of the franchise was stymied in the dealmaking stage. Sources said so much gross was pledged to the participants that it was next to impossible for the studio to make any money on a third installment.
No deals will be made with the original cast until the script is ready, but the gross percentage will certainly be an issue. Sony has a standing policy not to allow more than 25% of first dollar gross out the door.
The scribes, who are Emmy- nominated for their work on "The Office," just set up another picture at Columbia, selling their spec script "Bad Teacher" to the studio for Jimmy Miller to produce.
Worst case scenario:Know what I think when I read about the star salaries being too much for the studio to handle? I see this as nothing more than cameos by the original cast, who I'm sure are retired, having to come out and train new Ghostbusters because they're too old for the job. You know how Hollywood is. They want the 'fresh, hip, young crowd' in their movies. You have cameos, you pay cameo money, then you have some dickheads who can't act (like Jimmy Fallon) star in the movie.
Best case scenario:They pay them whatever they can to get them on board to do a third. I'm sure for Aykroyd, that would only require some peanuts and front row tickets to a play, but to get Bill Murray, they may have to open their wallets a bit.
We know Rick Moranis has quit acting. Fine, that's his decision, but imagine if they got everyone back for a third? With today's special and visual effects it would kick ass. Let's hope Sony can get this one done. Let's also hope this number 3 fares better than the last number 3 they had with an emo Peter Parker hip spasming his way down the sidewalk.
Forget Spider-Man 4. Put that money towards Ghostbusters!!
BRON
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