{"id":34952,"date":"2014-10-14T19:54:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T23:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=34952"},"modified":"2014-10-15T06:56:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T10:56:05","slug":"ghostbusters-3-will-be-a-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/14\/ghostbusters-3-will-be-a-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"GHOSTBUSTERS 3 Will Be A Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week<\/a> Sony finally took a real step forward in their plans for a third Ghostbusters<\/strong> film, being officially announcing that Bridesmaids director Paul Feig had been hired to direct the project and that he would be collaborating with The Heat<\/strong> screenwriter Katie Dippold on the script. But outside of the fact that Feig stated he was going to fill the cast with \u201chilarious women,\u201d there weren\u2019t any more concrete details on how the new film will take shape. The big question that was hanging over the project was whether these \u201chilarious women\u201d would be inheriting the titular paranormal elimination business of its originators \u2013 i.e., Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray \u2013 or would the film be a reboot of the franchise.<\/p>\n

EW<\/a> managed to catch up with Feig and get the answer \u2013 The new Ghostbusters<\/strong> film will be a reboot.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not coming into the world that existed before. It\u2019s always hard if the world has gone through this big ghost attack, how do you do it again? I wanted to come into our world where there\u2019s talk of ghosts but they\u2019re not really credible, and so what would happen in our world if this happened today\u2026 Everything is up for grabs right now. I look at this the same way a superhero movie launches where it\u2019s always fun to see, like, what are they going to do with the costumes this time? What are they going to do with the hardware this time? It\u2019s not going to be, here is the exact same stuff. It\u2019s also not going to go, screw you, if you like that stuff, it\u2019s all completely different. We\u2019re going to have fun with it, but again, bring it into our time period. I\u2019m a big hardware nerd when it comes to sci-fi and all of that so I love all the gear and I love all that. We\u2019re really going to have fun with playing with the science of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I am not generally a fan of remaking a classic film \u2013 I prefer the idea of taking a bad film and trying to make a better version of it \u2013 this is probably for the best. Over the past several years as Aykroyd has tried to get a third Ghostbusters<\/strong> film going we have seen franchise co-star Bill Murray interest wax and wane and the passing of co-star and co-writer Harold Ramis. And while a continuation would have focused on the senior `busters handing over the franchise, both film and the business in the movie, to a new group of young comic actors, since it would not be able to feature even a cameo between all four original cast members, it would feel all the lesser.<\/p>\n

While no matter what course they were to take for a third film \u2013 reboot or continuation\u2013 the cast was definitely fated to be in the shadow of the original classic. The clean break from the past that a reboot affords, though, just might leave the cast in less of that shadow allowing them a better chance at bringing their own elements to the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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