Ghostbusters 3 moved past the theoretical stage this year and is looking like more and more of a real thing. Frequent updates are spilling out about where the project stands via one of the original stars, Dan Aykroyd, so I figured now’s as good a time as any to collect all the info and give a quick low-down on the current situation:
-The screenplay is currently still being written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, two staff writers on The Office.
-All four original Ghostbusters: Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, and even Bill Murray — the main hold-out when Aykroyd was trying to get a third movie out in the ’90s — are on board for the movie, as is Sigourney Weaver, who appeared in the first two movies. No concrete word on Rick Moranis yet, who also appeared in the original two. (Apparently the four originals all had their interest renewed after recently voicing the Ghostbusters video game.)
-The story will place the original four Ghostbusters in a “mentor” capacity which will allow a new generation of Ghostbusters to be introduced. Everybody’s saying, though no decisions have been made, that the new generation will be of the Seth Rogen/Paul Rudd/that-whole-gang variety. Rogen said in an interview last year that he hadn’t been approached but was open to the idea.
-”There’ll be a whole new generation that has to be trained and a leader that you’ll all love when you meet her,” Aykroyd told the Guardian. “There’ll be lots of cadets, boys and girls who’ll be learning how to use the neuron splitter and the inter-planet interceptor - new tools to enable them to slip from dimension to dimension.”
-The other major rumor is that Harold Ramis (who directs this summer’s Year One) will step into the director’s chair once inhabited by Ivan Reitman.
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