Seriously, Drake, et al

The number one reason we’re so inundated with these sound bites is nobody’s fault, not even Aykroyd, the number one generator of them. These are happening because a) this is, relative to the last 20 years, the closest a third movie has ever been, and as a result b) the press has been more interested than it ever has, which means that they are asking about it more, which means that they are replying more, which means we see more of these comments because c) we’re fans, and we’re looking for all the news of the movie – the rest of the world maybe sees Dan with Al Roker, or reads one article somewhere. They’re not seeing all of them. If Dan and anybody else wants everyone interested, then they have to have the movie talked about everywhere, in order to reach as many people as possible – this in turns means a deluge of duplicate, redundant news items to us.

It’s a pain (try being the guy that has to politely tell a couple dozen people that you appreciate that they sent you a link, but no, you won’t be running it), but we asked for it.

Finally, everyone…

What part of I didn’t want the comments to turn into another opportunity for people to reiterate their opinions on the pros and cons of a third movie (and in particular, I didn’t want the back and forth arguments to start again) was hard to understand?

If anybody wants to have a debate, please avail yourself of the many fine Ghostbusters messageboards, which are designed specifically for that sort of thing.

Thanks, and don’t eat to much candy tonight.

But one thing I’d like to comment on here is kind of a big detail which has been missed. Dan Aykroyd says, there will “PROBABLY” be two guys and two girls. What the hell is probably? He has the script, its written. Wouldn’t he know for certain if there were two guys and two girls. Or at least said, we’re rewriting it for two guys/girls, or the current version has 2 and 2. I don’t understand the probably if he has read the script. I really don’t think Murray is in the loop at all.

I also agree with Seriously a lot. I’m grateful for the updates on the websites part, but am sick of the cast members and people involved saying the same old stuff. In two years Aykroyd will still be saying, “Got the script, like script, waiting for the production number.”

I think one more film would be nice but I want to see Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson not a new bunch new replacements.

I don’t think this’ll work at all.

1. My comment has absolutely nothing to do with you updating your precious Ghostbusters website. Update away. I don’t care if you want to post leaked pictures of each of the old cast members wearing some sort of Ghostbusters related merch. It is, after all, your site.

2. I was addressing the fact that the little games that are being played with dropping this hint, starting this rumor, clarifying this previous statement, etc and forth, are simply getting old.

Didn’t say you make “the news.” Didn’t say I had a problem with you posting “the news.” Like everyone else, I posted my opinion on “the news.” I thought that was the point of being able to add comments to these breaking articles.

From now on I’ll stick to the same thing everyone else argues about- “I don’t think a new movie is worthwhile.” or “They are so going to make it, because a new game came out, then toys, and it can’t be coincidental.”

I dunno.

maybe you posted THIS because is the clearest answer ( with a little bit of news) that Dan gave to all these interviews? sorry for my bad english…

1) This is a Ghostbusters website. Of COURSE there’s going to be a lot of production navel gazing.

2) This is AFTER I leave more than half these types of things off the site – the idea is that the item add even a little something to the overall picture. In this case, Dan contradicting/altering Bill’s comment, and the affirmation that the new cast would not be more big name stars.

Dan Ayrkoyd and his dad were all over the place this past week, which his dad’s new book. Everybody asked about GB3 – how many of them did I post here?

Exactly.

Does that make some sense to you?

I have an idea for an announcement – “Ghostbusters 3 officially slated to start production in 2010,” or “After a long struggle to keep the franchise alive, classic comedy hit ‘Ghostbusters’ throws in the towel after 1989 sequel.”

Can’t we not derail yet another comment thread into a massive pointless debate, please and thanks?

You can quote me on this.