And regardless, it’s still a long way from the movie getting a greenlight.
Harold Ramis has apparently contacted his hometown paper, the Chicago Tribune, to say that the “purported” script Dan Aykroyd had mentioned was in fact real. He also confirmed that there is a high level of interest at Sony to tap into the Judd Apatow comedy machine, and that the original Ghostbusters would appear in a support role. But as before, this is just a script. There are a lot of parties involved that have to like it, so as I’ve said before, this is encouraging movement towards a third movie, but it is still not a lock. We’ll save that celebration for someone saying the movie is go.
yes, columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my year one writing partners, gene stupnitsky and lee eisenberg. judd apatow is co-producing year one and has made several other films for sony, so of course the studio is hoping to tap into some of the same acting talent. aykroyd, ivan reitman and i are consulting at this point, and according to dan, bill murray is willing to be involved on some level. he did record his dialogue for the new ghostbusters video game, as did danny and i, and ernie hudson. the concept is that the old ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity. not much else to say at this point. everyone is confident a decent script can be written and i guess we’ll take it from there.
best,
harold
Boy, Ramis really hate his shift-key. In this instance, we’re depending on the word of the Tribune writer that he actually got an email from Harold Ramis, and didn’t get flim-flammed by someone who knows how to spoof an email. The diction isn’t bad, so for now I’ll post this, but wear my skeptic face.
Mr. Ramis, feel free to email me, eh?
Thanks to Chuck for the heads up.
Not logged in 
Hello this is my friend Bill Murray, and Aykroyd.
I’d say thats a more telling strike against the letter than lack of proper capitalization. Though like Mulder, I so desperately want to believe.
Actually, the lack of capitalization isn’t a strike against it at all – I just thought it was funny, the idea that Ramis is a speed emailer (the kind of person that skips caps.)
It’s the fact that we have no way to corroborate the email. Maybe the author is comfortable with the exchange, maybe he’s emailed with him before, but we don’t know that, so until I get a bit more, this is interesting, but still not fully official anything.
I REALLY don’t want to see a GB3 with “new generation” busters. Especially not a screwball comedy, Ghostbusters shouldn’t be used as a platform for those writers… Wouldn’t 4 overweight old guys chasing ghosts around be comedy enough? I’d pay to see that any day over 25 year olds running in sync to a re-mixed GB theme by whatever MTV throwaway, tip-riding, reject rapper happens to be popular at that given moment.
I’d love for there to be a new movie. I can deal with there being none. I just don’t want to be teased…
I’ll probably be flogged for this but… I hope there wont be a third film. The main guys are just too old to be running around in jumpsuits and packs (assuming it would be live action.)
The idea of having new people take over is the most logical plot the movie could take as has been rumord, and most likely for the reson above.
If they take the time to do it right, and they’re not just doing it to ‘Jump on the ’80′s band wangon cause it MUST be what film goers want’ then I think they could turn out a really good movie. Ghostbusters as a concept has lots of possibilites for storys, the cartoons are proof of that. As for the rumored writers from The Office doing the script… I like the show but I cant say I’ve ever seen anything else by them to make a fair opinion on their talent.
I suppose my opinion may change once more information is reveled (if anything even happens)
I think there’s a limit to how skeptical you can really be. The Chicago Tribune is a nationally famous paper. They have fact-checkers and they aren’t stupid. If this was some never-heard-of-fansite out in cyberspace, that’s different, but there’s just no possible doubting the legitimacy of the email within reason. I mean, come on, when was the last time, or any time ever you heard of a newspaper being fooled by a fake movie writer con artist?
As for the movie itself, I’m just hoping no Ben Stiller, no Seth Rogen and no Jack Black. I’m all for Paul Rudd and Jay Baruchel, however.
I don’t care who is or isn’t in it, as long as the script works and the film is given the treatment it deserves.
Wow, hope that’s real. If only to confirm that Murray has voiced his game part already.
Not only that, but check this out:
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00018105.html
“when was the last time, or any time ever you heard of a newspaper being fooled by a fake movie writer con artist?”
The New York Times, a couple of years ago.
They even made a Law & Order episode based on it. Sure, it wasn’t a movie con artist, but it was a respectable paper being hoodwinked by a con artist writer.
Safe to say, despite all these rumors I haven’t really pledged my own heart and soul to this yet.
Ghostbusters 3…… I’ve been thinking about this one since I discovered the community (of course I dreamed of the movie WAY before that as well) Will they do it? Or should they just let the series be?
A big chunk of me thinks that there is no point in doing a 3rd one. The original Busters are getting pretty old, though I do believe they are all very capable of doing the movie. I keep thinking of the Rocky and Rambo movies that just came out, which I think were both awesome… Ghostbusters could be like that… if its done right.
I’m going to try to keep a level-head on this one.
Stay Optimistic people… Just remember, George Lucas isn’t involved in Ghostbusters
And imagine how good that Indy movie would have been without him
…Oh and yeah I support Paul Rudd as a Ghostbuster… and Simon Pegg.
I’d love to hear the pitch line. The “theme” or whatever, the angle the writers are going to push. If it is in fact a new wave of Ghostbusters being trained by the original 4? I’d be happy depending on the new cast I suppose.
Don’t put Will Farrell in this.
Don’t do it.
@ Maverick
I actually would love to see Simon Pegg as a Ghostbuster, nice suggestion!
I don’t want new ghostbusters.
They’re probably gonna change the way the suits, packs, and car looks like.
Ive said it before, and I’ll say it again, Im all for a new film with the blessing and guise of the original creators, a la the new game…HOWEVER, while I think Apatows films can be amusing, a GB3 rife with awful, man-child humor and dick jokes is simply NOT Ghostbusters. Seth Rogen is good at being the snarky slob, not as a dry, metered scientist… As a benchmark in moving in a logical direction of actor (and this isnt a cast list but to serve more as an idea of who currently fits that comedic styling) consider Evolution’s balance of talent. It was a good mix of personality…not a bunch of twenty-somethings making a bunch of lesbian related ghost jokes. That’s all we need, Seth Rogen carrying on about his “Cock-Slimer” totally ganked in that twat-ghost face…ugh…and you KNOW thats where they would try to take it. …Oh the vehemence.
What is with people and thinking that all the Apatow crew can do is raunchy sex comedy? I think you’ve all missed the point with their films to date, the films aren’t about as being as disgusting or perverted as humanly possible– they’re all about human emotion and mainly having heart. That’s what separates a film like 40 year old virgin/ Knocked up from something like There’s something about Mary. You can be worried about Seth Rogen being a Ghostbuster all you want (I say whatever, bring him on.) but quit whining about how you think this is going to be a raunchy ghost filled weed and sex comedy. That’s not Ghostbusters and its never been.
Despite Aykroyd himself writing in the whole being blown by a Ghost bit.
Tyler, that this ran in the Tribune is the only reason I ran this post at all. The Tribune’s reputation earned it a listen, but as has been pointed out, newspapers can and have dropped the ball. They are not infallible, and yes, they have fact checkers, but they aren’t used in columns generally.
So, skeptical hat remains on, not because I don’t want to believe it, but because it’s not impossible that this isn’t what I seems – one confirmation is nice, but it’s still one confirmation. A couple more will be better.
i dont want to get into a squabble over this — i mean fuck its a long way off from even confirmed — but I will say that while technically 40 yearold virgin had ‘heart’, still it was littered with that juvenile humor ” Ya know how I know youre gay?…” And lets hold the phone…an implication of being blown by a ghost through visual gag…is a FAR cry than Venkman and Stantz talking about a ghost bukocki…Let’s be realistic. So, I will say again, Im not at all dismissing the film or the Apatow’s crews involvement,but here it is, case and point:
I just hope Apatow understands they are working in a Ghostbusters world, not the other way around…
what got my attention to all of this Friday morning, was that there was a Blurb on Good Morning America, when i heard it, so i was elated/skeptical like everyone else out there. But for this to come over a National News Show helped ease my mind that it’s not a con. alot of legit papers/sources have posted about gb3 in the works and all that, so i can have a little bit of hope.
Yes, but Randy, they’re all parroting the same news – they’ve all gotten it from the same place. Good Morning America reporting it just means they have a Reuter’s subscriptions like everyone else – it doesn’t mean they’ve heard about it independent from the others.
Ok I just have to point out, to everyone that say that the Apatow crew are to juvenile with sex and drugs humor for the Ghostbusters world. It seems to me that the guys that made Ghostbusters weren’t exactly squeaky clean themselves. I am not trying to pick a fight , I am just pointing out that Stripes, Animal House, and Caddyshack among others weren’t exactly what you would call family friendly.
: )
Agreed, surely. But it is still a different brand of off color humor… rude can be raunchy but still have an adult presence…my opinion, OPINION mind you, is that Apatows movies… while funny in their own right, are not the type of comedic styling Ghostbusters calls for… thats all Im saying.
And I totally agree with that too. : ) I am just seeing a lot of people fret that just because Apatow and Co. are known for one style that they would not or could not naturally shift to a subtler one just as the SNL crew did. Personally I think everyone is wigging out over 2 rumors that are a long way off from coming to fruition. That’s why I believe in sitting back(albeit excitedly) to wait, and hope for more good news. Until then, it’s fun to think about the possibilities : )
So does this mean that GB video game wont technically be GB3???
THE GB game will be the third CHAPTER in the gb universe……and the movie will be the true GHOSTBUSTERS III and the fourth chapter of gb’s adventures
So if this is the case im assuming then that GB3 will have to include the new recruit from the video game….off course unless he dies in the video game
I don’t think so necessarily… would they have to tie in all video game references? I dont see them catering to the game… that would be like the writers HAVING to follow that god-awful Scholly Fisch novel just because it took place after GB2.
John Landis is quoted with “I’m not involved, but I know it’s happening.”
http://www.northernstar.info/article/4036/
Like I said before…as much as I support a 3rd movie (as long as it’s done RIGHT) I’m not holding my breath. I’d rather have the game.
I hope this is really happening. I really hope Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen do it. I was against the idea of a “new generation” but I think they can pull it off.
I hope they don’t update the Ecto-1 into an Escalade or something stupid like that.
I’m so conflicted about a Ghostbusters III. Ghostbusters is my favorite movie ever (like so many of you here), but I’ve always thought GBII was a letdown. Sometimes I think GB III is a no-brainer, and sometimes I feel like they can’t make a good movie out of it.
Me too. I’ve thaught and thaught and I honestly don’t know what Ghostbusters III could be about. All I do know is that the story has too be very different from the first two movies. Originality will be key if this movie is ever made.
I’m not expecting a movie as good as the first one because I don’t really think it’s possible. It has too be a big improvement over Ghostbusters II though. As long as Ghostbusters III falls in between the first two movies I’ll be happy.
I couldn’t care less who writes it or who’s in it as long as it is fantastic!
At the IMDB it says that the 4GB’s will be in GB3 training a new team to help them out. The Info is at http://www.Imdb.com/name/nm0000101/news#ni0561812 and you will see what it says the 4 GB’s are back helping a new team to help them out chasing the Ghosts. I’m also glad that GB3 will be a live-action movie and not a CGI movie and it says that GB3 will be filming in 2009 for a 2010 release but it might come out early or later of 2009 but if not 2009 then 2010 for sure and thats wonderful GB3 news! This isn’t a rumor anymore it’s happening for real because the Imdb even says that and thats wonderful GB3 news!Even Harold and Dan said that to so thee’s proof!
Ya know, the imdb has also been saying Cliver Barker’s Animae Damnatae has been in production for the past 6 years… SO Ill believe it when I sees it.
Wow it seems you can’t go anywhere nowadays without all the GB2 hate.
Viggo was a badass, ok so GB II was just a tad childish (the score is what makes it childish for me…maybe a bit too much oscar and peter/dana rekindling..) but GB2 was great. No sequel ever lives up to the original, but some of you guys are acting like GB2 was a complete failure. So what if it was marketed towards kids a bit more… It still had some dark moments, and how can you not like the hammer?
I’m just hoping if a GB3 does happen, they make it darker and less kiddy than GB2.
# Dan Amrich September 7, 2008 2:51 am
Wow, hope that’s real. If only to confirm that Murray has voiced his game part already.
That was confirmed MONTHS ago. I believe it was mentioned here on PC.
# Tyler September 7, 2008 2:32 am
When was the last time, or any time ever you heard of a newspaper being fooled by a fake movie writer con artist?
Ever see the movie The Hoax starring Richard Gere? It’s about a guy who conned book publisher McGraw-Hill into thinking that he had recluse Howard Hughes’ cooperation to write Hughes’ autobiography. It may not be a newspaper, but it shows that even a major book publisher can get conned.
I always thought that they should make Ghostbusters III using The Real Ghostbusters characters. Unfortunately, Sony sees The Real Ghostbusters as a “kids property” because it’s animated, so it wouldn’t get the PG or PG-13 rating that a Ghostbusters movie should get. A Ghostbusters movie should NOT be G-rated.
I was doing a little looking back, and I thought it was noting that we’ve had Ghostbusters III “news” for 15 YEARS now! Yes, the earliest mentions I have on my GB3 news page are from a Dan Aykroyd interview in Playboy magazine from August 1993. Hell, it was 10 years ago (August 14, 1998) that the Sci-Fi Channel aired ON TV their bit about Dan and Harold writing the script, and Ivan possible executive producing – which was the BIG news of the day.
I just got done going over all of the latest “news” and it can be boiled down to three articles.
1. September 3rd – E! Online’s brief Dan Aykroyd video where he mentions two writers writing the script, and wanting to work with Seth Rogan and Judd Apatow:
2. September 4th – Variety article about two writers from “The Office” being asked to pen a script:
3. September 5th – Chicago Tribune article with an e-mail supposedly from Harold confirming what Variety said:
Right now none of this means that a film is being made. At most, it says that Sony asked two writers to write a script. Writing a script, and having that script actually made into a movie, are two different things
So that this point, even though the sources and usually reliable, I’d classify this as nothing more than a rumor. Though I’ll still add it to my GB3 news page when I get the chance.
I hope that clarifies things, or puts things in perspective, for anyone.
I think it would be a cool idea for seth rogen and the rest to be the new ghostbusters and for the original ghostbusters to be mentors.
Check out these fan pictures, look how could they would look!..
http://smalltownhero.deviantart.com/art/Ghostbusters-3-97549011
http://dr-gore.deviantart.com/art/Who-ya-gonna-call-97551025
Excellent run down Spook Central! (P.s – thanks for the excellent site). Yeah, I agree 100% – I would be very surprised (and happy) if this ever really saw the light of day! It may just be that every now and a story is leaked like this by the suits to see what kind of response they get – sort of a cheap way to check if making GB3 is “worth it” to them. Especially now with the interest the video game has stirred up.
if there is going to be GB3 the original guys have to do it!! i dont want to see any new, most likely bad actors doing a film like this one!! harrison ford did a indiana jones didnt he? bill,dan,harold need to get this together they are the ghostbusters and i wouldnt expect to see anyone else!! if they did another movie with differnt actors “I would not go see it”
Sorry, the last comment had a bad link. Having the original principles in a supporting role is the only way to do it. Seeing the original cast running around at this point would just be sad. But, if the reports of Judd Appatow’s crew being tapped for this film are true, than this is not promising… http://joblo.com/rogen-hates-gb3
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