On project status:
"We are very close now to getting it together to start casting and hiring people."
On getting Bill Murray back:
"You don't need anyone from the first one. You don't, it's so strong without it. You get a new generation in there, new plot, use some of the particle physics, get a new Ecto, you don't need to go back to the past."
Not much new, but don't expect this new team to be riding around in a modified 1959 Cadillac. This was to be expected, mostly, though one hopes it can at least make a cameo and have a transition to a new ride. "Like they did with Star Trek." Danny likes the Star Trek reboot. Can I call him Danny now? I feel like if I've written 270 "Ghostbusters 3" articles over 7 years, I can call him Danny.
Another day, another hat tip to Davide Passaia, who should basically run this blog but I'll keep writing regardless.
While I'm full of admiration for Dan Ackroyd and his determination to not let fans down I find this news displeasing. It really feels less like GHOSTBUSTERS III and more Ghostbusters THE REBOOT (that awful word brrr).
ReplyDeleteCan we not have a mixture of newness AND the past? Surely that's a more delicious formulae. Why not see the old proton packs again but with today's technology? The design of those original two movies are classic and in all our imaginations. Why throw them out for boring (and flashy) next generation technology? Didn't anyone learn anything from Extreme Ghostbusters? The thing that let that otherwise entertaining series down for me as a kid was that the new hardwear sucked. It just didn't stick in the mind as memorable as the original weapons.
I'm greatly disappointed with Ecto 1 potentially being relegated to mere cameo status. That beautiful cadilac with it's amazing iconic bonnet and headlights?! It's like replacing the Delorean "Back to the Future" car for a crappy modern design (and I know the Delorean truly was a crappy car in reality but that's beside the point lol).
C'mon now, let's see that baby ride the streets of Manhattan again for the first time since 1989!! That's truly thrilling.
Couldn't agree more. I'm all for new ideas and even a new generation team, but I'd like to revisit the old characters/ideas as well. At least for a little while. Hearing one of the original creators downplaying the connections to the first two brings me down. Dan's description is what I always envisioned a GB4 being.
ReplyDeleteWhatever the case may be, I do hope this time they finally make the movie materialize. The 30th anniversary is coming up and the supernatural is still very popular at the box office right now. Something is telling me this may be the last real window of seeing it happen.
You realise what's coming next don't you? Without Murray and a lack of Ecto-1 next will be the theme song for the chop. Goodbye 80's pop/dance of Ray Parker Jr, hello modern remix cover by god knows who (I shudder to think it'd be somebody along the lines of One Direction lol).
ReplyDeleteI really think there has been a kind of trade off with this movie. With Murray having said no and Ackroyd losing patience I believe he's been pressured into a sort of reboot concept by the studio. They obviously want to relaunch Ghostbusters no matter the cost so the more new (and ultimately modern) things they have in this new script the better. The hell with honouring the past and pleasing longtime fans.
I have to say I don't give a damn about a new franchise with new characters. What I'm interested in is seeing all the guys back in a new modern adventure that can be perhaps better than Ghostbusters II and finish it all off in style as they deserve to go out like. The first two movies were made in a purer time when franchises did not dominate as they do today. Now it's all you here. Did we really need 4 Transformers movies for instance? To bring it back just for the sake of launching a new whole series of movies is a far poorer mistake than anything Ghostbusters II got accused of.
If I'm honest the more I hear about this project the less I think it should be made at all. I love Ghostbusters II. Don't care what fans say about it. The ending is actually pretty great anyway. We can almost assume Peter and Dana got back together and all that. It had it's problems, too much emphasis on superb effects instead of equally great comedy. But it still had almost everyone back in it and all the stuff you wanted to see from the previous movie.
"We don't need to go back and revisit the past". Err then why are you making a Ghostbusters 3? This will suck!
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