Sure, the upcoming Ghostbusters video game has been pretty much permanently delayed even though it was nearly completed. But that doesn't mean that work on a new film can't go forward.
Columbia Pictures is getting serious about scaring up a new installment of its blockbuster "Ghostbusters" franchise.
The studio has set "The Office" co-exec producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to write a script for a film designed to bring back together the original cast of Harold Ramis, BillMurray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson.
Studio would not comment on the development and has been mum on recent rumors that there was interest in making another installment of the franchise.
While I am definitely glad to hear rumor of another Ghostbusters movie in the works, but I can't help but wonder why Columbia wouldn't just hire Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis to write the film themselves. They wrote the first two films, and they wrote the story for the video game we'll probably never get to play. So why hire new writers? It doesn't make sense.
I guess I should just be happy though that they want to bring back the original cast, and this isn't some dumb retooling of the origin of the Ghostbusters that will be "dark and gritty" like the Dark Knight was. That seems to be the big buzz thing to do in Hollywood nowadays.
No comments:
Post a Comment