We had been hearing about a third Ghost Busters movie for a while now, and it nearly made it onto the shelf of “movies we want but will never see” but this ball is rollin fast and it seems like little is going to stop it from happening. Harold Ramis is spearheading this and is confident that it is all coming together with the writers of The Office Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, and a mystery man who he is certain we will love as the new head Ghost Buster.
/Film quotes Aykroyd in an interview as saying:
“There will be a whole new generation that has to be trained, and that whole new generation will be led by an individual who you’ll all love when you meet him but I’m not going to tell you anything yet,” teased Aykroyd. “They’ll be lots of cadets, boys and girls, who’ll be learning how to use the psychotron, the accelerators and all the new stuff, the neuron splitter, which is going to be the interplaner, interceptor and all these great tools that they’re going to have, to flip from dimension to dimension.”
I kinda like the idea of a whole class of Ghostbusting hopefuls lining up. It sounds like they are implying that 20 years later the Ghostbusters company has gone franchise and the original Busters are going to play police academy trainers.
There has to be a need for Ghost Busters in more cities than New York City right? I mean there is always that suspension of disbelief that in a fictional world where Ghosts need busting, that it only happens in one place. Like there are only vampires in Sunnydale, Aliens only invade US cities, Godzilla only stomps Tokyo, every planet in Star Wars is made up of one climate and people keep dying weekly in that small town in Murder She Wrote.
So its a logical step to grow a franchise out of something like Ghost Busters. If they just come out with yet another adventure, it just won’t have any lasting power. They have to shake things up a bit. Show some evolution, and bring in some new talent.
Ramis is confident that everyone will be on board with this despite a few obstainers who haven’t signed on (are Weaver and Moranis needed for more than a cameo?)
I am looking foward to this the more and more I hear about it.
