While doing the publicity rounds for the blu-ray release of his movie Dave, Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman was of course asked about the ongoing struggle to get a third film for the franchise together. Here\u2019s what he told Collider –<\/p>\n
I think Ghostbusters probably should be remade, if we can get it all right. We\u2019re working on it, so we\u2019ll see.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There was no follow up from Collider on this statement, so all we are left is some speculation.<\/p>\n
Have Reitman and Ghostbusters writer and co-star Dan Aykroyd given up on a third installment and are now looking at remaking the original film, presumably with a cast of young talent? It is not such a far-fetched idea, considering that one of the main sticking points to getting a third film going has been co-star Bill Murray\u2019s reluctance to strap on his proton pack one more time. Remember that at one time Aykroyd himself once mooted the possibility of moving forward on a new film without Murray\u2019s participation. A relaunch of the franchise would certainly be in line with that notion.<\/p>\n
But I have to say that a flat out remake of Ghostbusters just sounds like a terrible idea. The film is a classic for several reasons, the least of which were an incredible screenplay and the incredible chemistry between the entire cast. There simply doesn\u2019t seem to me to be a way in which one could improve on wither of those two aspects and trying to sounds like you would just be setting yourself up to disappoint people.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s hoping that Reitman actually misspoke and that they are still working on a straight-up third film and not some sort of remake\/reboot fiasco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Parsing a slip of Ivan Reitman’s tongue.<\/div>\n
[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[539,1652,537,557],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-bill-murray","8":"tag-dan-aykroyd","9":"tag-ghostbusters-3","10":"tag-ivan-reitman"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22174"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=22174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ghostbusters3-550wide.jpg\")
Is the much talked about Ghostbusters sequel not quite what everyone is thinking it will be?<\/p>\n