Comments on: Ghostbusters 3 New Writer Confirmed

By: Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:58:23 +0000

@La Menthe, I used Star Wars as an example because it’s a movie that had a large amount of time between installments. Call it a prequel if you like (the word was created because of Star Wars), it’s still an appropriate comparison.

And I also realize Star Wars used a few of the same actors, but only ones that had their appearance covered by makeup and costumes or puppets. None of the core cast returned, which is the point I was making. Ghostbusters relies on having it’s lead actors back for a sequel more than Star Wars did. Can you imagine if the made a new Star Wars today with Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher trying to play the same characters from 30 years ago? It would be fundamentally different, and that’s the point I was making.

By: La Menthe

La Menthe — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:10:44 +0000

Star Wars was a prequel. This is a sequel. And Star Wars used the same actors wherever it was possible (like C3P0 and Palpatine).

And I don’t think I speak only for myself when I say the film REQUIRES Aykroyd and Murray for it to be acceptable.

That being said, it doesn’t help much when they keep hiring in fucking retard writers.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 05:17:21 +0000

@BarBar, I was thinking that same thing!

I was still pulling for this, but I’m not sure it’s a good idea. If this gets made, it’ll come out around thirty years after the original was released! Thirty years! Even Star Wars didn’t take that long from the original to Episode I, and they didn’t even use the original cast.

By: La Menthe

La Menthe — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:47:03 +0000

Why the fuck do they keep giving the job for a sequel of a classic to these bad writers? Year One and Men in Black 3? Come on! I hope Murray rejects it this time too. The studio is basically asking for rejection when it hires fucktard-writers.

By: Captain N

Captain N — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:30:13 +0000

I’d love to see a Ghostbusters 3 but let’s not lie to ourselves, all these writers and rewrites are not promising. They need to just ditch the current draft and hire a brand new writer who has absolutely no connection to the project over the past few years. Somebody with a passion for Ghostbusters and can breathe some new life into the franchise. This all sounds like a beating of a dead horse and that’s how it’s been the past several years. I don’t care if Murray returns or not, the main focus should be creating new Ghostbusters who are just as compelling as the previous.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:10:43 +0000

I hate to say it, but as a life-long (and virtually obsessed) fan of the Ghostbusters franchise (well, since I was 6), I have very little hope this will ever take off and be successful with the direction it’s been heading in so far. Perhaps Sony should consider Ethan Coen instead of this Etan Cohen. A new and stylized vision of the franchise may be needed to make it work, but with the charm of the first movie. I dunno… It needs GOOD and competent fresh blood injected into it. As much as I enjoy his older films, I think Ivan Reitman needs to hand over directing duties to a new director….someone with a good track record thus far. I agree with Bill and Dan…it DOES need to be PERFECT. If it makes it to the box office and bombs, I will be one sad little spud. These Sony people need to LISTEN to the fans. A lot of us out here have great ideas and know the material ALMOST better than Dan himself! LOL I’ve had many conversations with people about how, “It would be awesome if they did ‘this’ or ‘that’.” Eh… we’ll see.

By: BarBar

BarBar — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:06:26 +0000

A further attempt to bamboozle Bill with Cohen/Coen confusion a la Garfield?