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Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3
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on Thu May 21, 2009 08:32 PM
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bowman9991 writes "Dan Aykroyd reveals that all the original cast have now signed on for Ghostbusters 3, including Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson. Apparently Bill Murray, who holds a one-fifth controlling interest, was very reluctant at first, not even willing to read a third draft of Aykroyd's script. Aykroyd would like to see Ivan Reitman or Harold Ramis direct, wants to introduce a 'new generation' of Ghostbusters, and believes they could be filming the new Ghostbuster movie by winter."
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Gee (Score:5, Funny)
I hope its as good as Blues Brothers 2000.
Re:Gee (Score:5, Insightful)
I can't wait to see who they're going to cast as the annoying kid ghostbuster, complete with mini-backpack.
I hear Jessica Biel is going to play the kick-ass female ghostbuster who doesn't take crap from nobody - but is she falling for the hunky new ghostbuster (Shia LaBeouf)?
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Re:Gee (Score:5, Funny)
DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS.
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Re:Gee (Score:5, Insightful)
I hear Jessica Biel is going to play the kick-ass female ghostbuster who doesn't take crap from nobody - but is she falling for the hunky new ghostbuster (Shia LaBeouf)?
Make it R-rated with Lindsay Lohan falling for the kick-ass female ghostbuster and I'll go see it! Or at least download it from the pirate-bay!
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Re:Gee (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, Dan Ackroyd likes Alyssa Milano and Eliza Dushku http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/05/dan-aykroyd-says-ghostbusters-3-may-start-filming-in-winter.html [latimes.com]
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Can we (Score:5, Insightful)
Seeing a bunch of guys in their 60s doing action/adventure stuff won't cut it for me, I don't think. It's just a mis-match of the phases of human life and the plot of the story. Running around doing crazy shit is a young person's thing; a story where the cast is middle-aged should have the plot that involves the drama that a middle aged person gets involved in -- kids, grandkids, getting old, missed opportunities, rectifying relationships, taking on responsiblities, coming to terms with your life, etc.
I think the baby boomers represented the great consumerist generation, and the marketers are trying to squeeze the last dollars out of this demographic.
Re:Can we (Score:5, Insightful)
You really considered the original ghostbusters movies action adventure flicks?
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know, it ended with some kind of lightning battle with an interdimensional god and a giant Stay Puft marshmallow man on the New York skyline... what category does that normally go in?
Acid Trip.
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know, it ended with some kind of lightning battle with an interdimensional god and a giant Stay Puft marshmallow man on the New York skyline...
Damn it man, can't you preface that with a [Spoiler Alert]?!? It's still in my Netflix queue...
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Informative)
There is (or at least, there should be) a five year limit to how long after a movie comes out it's required to preface spoilers with a warning. That's enough time for the movie to go from theaters to crappy network stations.
Books, on the other hand, shouldn't have that limit. It's hard to go through books as quickly as movies.
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
There is (or at least, there should be) a five year limit to how long after a movie comes out it's required to preface spoilers with a warning. That's enough time for the movie to go from theaters to crappy network stations.
Books, on the other hand, shouldn't have that limit. It's hard to go through books as quickly as movies.
Harry killed Gandalf! My God, it's full of stars. The white whale gets away, but gets caught again for Free Moby 2 through 17. The yerks take over the world and have love children with the g'ould. The Pope is actually an alien, and Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are the Illuminati.
That said it was a good book, and you should read it anyway.
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
Dude... I was totally going to read Harry RingGate: DaVinci in Black, but you ruined the ending for me! Now what am I going to do?
(Incidentally, it's spelled "goa'uld". If you're going to make nerdy comments, at least check your spelling ;)
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Interesting)
Seeing a bunch of guys in their 60s doing action/adventure stuff won't cut it for me, I don't think. It's just a mis-match of the phases of human life and the plot of the story. Running around doing crazy shit is a young person's thing; a story where the cast is middle-aged should have the plot that involves the drama that a middle aged person gets involved in -- kids, grandkids, getting old, missed opportunities, rectifying relationships, taking on responsiblities, coming to terms with your life, etc.
I am 43 and I spend more time running around doing crazy shit than I did when I was 20 years younger, mainly because I have the money and time now, and my seven year old son has similar tastes in crazy shit (or is learning too, anyway).
But yeah, Bill Murray wants to move on, maybe the others should as well. Maybe they won't be there in the fourth if it gets made.
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
your son is way too young to be running around with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator strapped to his back
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
your son is way too young to be running around with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator strapped to his back
Now they tell me.
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
It just occurred to me, we've never had a completely successful test of this equipment.
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
I think he was referring to things like strange noises at night, doors opening and closing, food missing from the fridge...
...cats and dogs sleeping together...
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
No no no... Dogs and cats, living together... MASS HYSTERIA!
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Insightful)
Seeing a bunch of guys in their 60s doing action/adventure stuff won't cut it for me, I don't think.
Ghostbusters doesn't really have action sequences though in the same way that Indiana Jones did. The biggest action sequence was probably them running ut of the library.
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Insightful)
The end of the movie was just them walking around, making jokes, holding and aiming props. When I think of Indiana Jones I think of outrunning a massive boulder, fighting Nazies on tanks, etc. Ghostbusters was nothing like that. It was a drama.
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
I thought that was the end of Unbreakable.
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
Burn. In. Hell.
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
Who the hell can replace Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd?
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker? Chris tucker distracts Cuthulu with a continuous rant on Cuthulu's personal hygene and Jackie stunt fights thru the reanimated denizens of the Netherworld in a proton accelerated tuxedo.
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Insightful)
If anyone cares to notice, we're all recalling the original Ghostbusters which was great. That's because the Ghostbusters II (which also had the original cast) SUCKED big time!
Unfortunately, I think this may be a case of, "Hey none of us are getting gigs, let's do a remake!"
Sometimes you can't go back. {sigh} But I hope I'm wrong.
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Interesting)
"Hey none of us are getting gigs, let's do a remake!"
Yeah, they are all just desperate for work...
Just take Bill Murray for example. In the past 5 years he's only got 12 projects listed on the Internet Movie Database
Including :
The Darjeeling Limited 67% fresh on Rotton Tomatoes [rottentomatoes.com]
The City of Ember
Get Smart
Broken Flowers 87% fresh [rottentomatoes.com]
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
That's a struggling actor not getting gigs?
Sigourney Weaver? Bah, she only has 18 film projects listed since 2004. And lots of TV gigs. LOTS. That's hardly working in the world of LA actors though, right? Oh.
Harold Ramis? Well, he's sure slowed down in his writing, but he's been acting a little (Knocked Up,Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, etc), a little producing, a little directing (a few episodes of The Office, etc). It looks like he's picking and choosing and having fun, not really struggling for projects.
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Insightful)
Harold Ramis is the most successful of all, and I can only imagine the reason he would particpate is out of charity to Dan Akroyd.
Seth
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe the original cast could be the ghosts.
Besides, Ghostbusters isn't really an action film. It's a comedy with some effects.
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Speak for yourself, Sonny (Score:5, Insightful)
Iron Man was great because it gave 40-somethings an action hero *THEY* can relate to.
Not your typical, whiny, prissy-haired Generation-Y superhero who between fighting bad guys (like "Eco Man" and "The Recycler") shops and uses his iPhone to update his Twitter feed: "kckd butt yo lol lawl in4a!"
If GhostBusters 3 gives 60-somethings an action hero they can relate to (Because Indy 4 sure as hell didn't), good for them!
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Re:Speak for yourself, Sonny (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Insightful)
Running around doing crazy shit is a young person's thing; a story where the cast is middle-aged should have the plot that involves the drama that a middle aged person gets involved in -- kids, grandkids, getting old, missed opportunities, rectifying relationships, taking on responsibilities, coming to terms with your life, etc.
Wow you need to know some different old people. In his 60's my Dad was travelling the world. Malaysia, Australia, The Alps, India... at his funeral (in his 70's) my sister and I found out he had three girlfriends at the time he died (no, that wasn't the cause :). At one point one of them took me aside and told me how while taking a break during sex she had ridden him naked around the living room and patio...
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Re:Can we (Score:5, Insightful)
The reason being that Arnold is a tad occupied with being the Governor of California at the moment,...
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A poltergeist stole my dentures (Score:5, Funny)
Ghostbusters 3: Haunted Retirement Community
Ah, Ghostbusters... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ah, Ghostbusters... (Score:5, Insightful)
"If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe in anything you say."
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Please, please, do NOT.... (Score:5, Funny)
Please, don't let the 'new generation of Ghostbusters' consist of a goth girl, a hispanic guy, a guy in a wheelchair, and black mechanic.
Re:Please, please, do NOT.... (Score:5, Funny)
This sounds more like a script for an episode of Family Guy or South Park.
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Does hollywood have any originality left? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Does hollywood have any originality left? (Score:5, Insightful)
C'mon. At least of the 6 major Batman movies, 4 of them were decent or good (I'm sorry, but Batman & Robin and Batman Forever SUCKED!). Did you even SEE The Dark Knight? Hardly slapping on a fresh coat of paint and slapping it up there. And nevermind that Batman Begins WAS basically a "reboot" for the franchise.
And it's not necessarily originality that's lacking in Hollywood. It's the fact that original, high profile, big budget pictures tend to elicit quite a following if they're at least decent, and this causes sequels to be "big" as well simply because people who liked the first (or second, or tenth) will come see the next simply out of curiousity. Repeat ad nauseum.
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reboot (Score:5, Funny)
Re:First Proton Pack! (Score:5, Funny)
First Proton Pack!
Oops... I mean post.
It's first ghost.
Stupid zone-dweebie.
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Re:Points for whoever gets it... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Last (Score:5, Interesting)
Hurray!
Yes, I'm quite tempted to join in with your such vocal enthusiasm!
Usually I'd be cynical. After all, I saw Ghostbusters II at the cinema and I still have the scars to prove it... yeah, it was THAT bad!
However Bill Murray who has gone on to reasonable success wants in. He's certainly earned enough money so he doesn't HAVE to do it. So maybe, just maybe it'll be decent.
So hell yeah, let's be vocally enthusiastic and optimistic...
Hurray!
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Re:Last (Score:5, Insightful)
Excellent reasoning...
Just like George Lucas had "reasonable" success. He'd certainly earned enough money that he didn't need to do the Star Wars prequels. So the fact that he did them is part of the reason they were so...hang on...something is wrong with this train of thought
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