Ghost Busters 3 has been rumoured to be in and out of production forever.
But in a recent chat with Ivan Reitman (director and producer of the first two) he spilled that there is a second draft of a script he is excited about and he did confirm that he WOULD direct.
MTVMovies says:
“They have delivered a draft,” Reitman said of the script’s progress. “We are working our way through another draft… good work is being done and all of us have our fingers crossed.”
What he wouldn’t do was address exactly what that “good work” entailed. Asked about Weaver’s recent comments, Reitman laughed and kept things light.
“I’m not going to comment on what’s in the script and on what Sigourney may or may not have said,” he told us. “She’s been so busy on ‘Avatar,’ I’ve not been able to find her. There’s some very cool things in the new draft, let’s just put it that way.”
Reitman was all business again when the talk turned back to the schedule. “I hope to start shooting in this next year,” he said, giving weight to Ramis’ recent comments about a planned 2011 release.
After seeing what came of the story in the Ghost Busters video game, I would have loved to have seen that as a film. Lots of fun.
There have been speculated rumours that the new film will be a passing of the torch which is so hard to do right. Its like telling your wife, “this is your new husband” … there is no guarantee that she’s going to love that guy and furthermore she might just be in shock that you were doing that to her. Why oh why are you just throwing away everything we had before!!
But it makes sense that if they catch up with the original cast, perhaps they will have to introduce some new faces in hopes that they might do a Ghostbusters 4 and 5. These guys are getting old, and bustin makes them feel good. But every era has its end.
I do like that Bill Murray might just be a voice in this, and he could be a ghost “pal” of the Ghost Busters now. Maybe sometime in the last 20 years his character died and just hangs around the old firehall HQ now.
I just really hope they bring back Rick Moranis.
