At a recent event at the film industry convention ShoWest, Sony Entertainment president Rory Bruer announced that third installments of Ghostbusters and Men in Black movies were in “active development.”
Ghostbusters 3 had already been announced; Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, writers on The Office, are currently drafting the screenplay, which would feature the original Ghostbusters crew mentoring a brand new crew. (Rumors have abounded that the new crew would be some combination of Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Craig Robinson, Justin Long, or other actors in the Judd Apatow gang, but offers won’t start going out until the script is finished.)
This is the first real news anyone’s heard of Men in Black 3, however. The original Men in Black was a classic, and the sequel was a disaster, so let’s hope they can regain some of the mojo they had on the first movie.
Note that just because these projects are in development doesn’t mean they’re greenlit; any hiccup along the development process (say, Will Smith deciding he doesn’t want to do another Men in Black) could potentially derail either one.
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