{"id":34943,"date":"2014-10-09T08:11:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T12:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=34943"},"modified":"2014-10-09T08:11:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T12:11:02","slug":"ghostbusters-3-gets-new-writer-feig-confirms-female-cast-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/09\/ghostbusters-3-gets-new-writer-feig-confirms-female-cast-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"GHOSTBUSTERS 3 Gets New Writer, Feig Confirms Female Cast Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Katie Dippold has been hired by Sony to take a stab at their long in gestation Ghostbusters 3<\/strong>. The Heat scribe will be re-teaming with that film’s director Paul Feig, who has already been attached to the project.<\/p>\n

That a new writer has been brought onto Ghostbusters 3<\/strong> should come as no surprise. When Feig came aboard the project in August<\/a>, rumors started swirling that the Bridesmaid<\/strong>s director’s intention was to give the franchise a reboot with an all-female cast. That would definitely necessitate a rewrite of the screenplay that Ghostbusters creator Dan Aykroyd had been working on with The Office<\/em> writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg and Men In Black 3<\/strong> writer Etan Cohen.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog<\/a> broke the news, which Feig confirmed on twitter.<\/p>\n

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It's official. I'm making a new Ghostbusters & writing it with @katiedippold<\/a> & yes, it will star hilarious women. That's who I'm gonna call.<\/p>\n

— Paul Feig (@paulfeig) October 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n