[bootlegga]

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It’s been the stuff of rumors for years now, but a recent interview with Ghostbusters franchise actor Dan Akroyd hints that Ghostbusters 3 could finally be moving forward.

Akroyd recently appeared on Dennis Miller’s radio show and shared some details about the project, including a timeline, the likelihood of seeing Bill Murray reprise his role as Peter Venkman, and at least one potential casting option they’re considering.

According to Akroyd, filming will begin on Ghostbusters 3 in 2012 — with or without Murray.

“Yes, we will be doing the movie and hopefully with Mr. Murray,” he told Miller (as transcribed by SuperHeroHype). “That is our hope. We have an excellent script.”

“What we have to remember is that Ghostbusters is bigger than any one component, although Billy was absolutely the lead and contributive to it in a massive way, as was the director and Harold [Ramis], myself and Sigourney [Weaver],” he added. “The concept is much larger than any individual role and the promise of Ghostbusters 3 is that we get to hand the equipment and the franchise down to new blood.”

As for who that new blood will be, Akroyd dropped at least one name of an actor he’s interested in for the film.

“I like this guy Matthew Gray Gubler from the Criminal Minds show,” he said. “But there’s going to be a casting. We’re going to see everyone that wants to do it. We’re going to need… three guys and a young woman.”

Akroyd also shared some plot details regarding the reasons his character, Ray Stantz, and Ramis’ character, Egon Spengler, will need to pass their proton packs on to a new generation.

“My character, Ray, is now blind in one eye and can’t drive the cadillac,” he revealed, “He’s got a bad knee and can’t carry the packs… Egon is too large to get into the harness. We need young blood and that’s the promise. We’re gonna hand it to a new generation.”

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/dan-akroyd-say ... 03614.html

[BartSimpson]

Here's the casting sheet:

1. A befuddled, science-ey white guy.
2. A smart-aleck Jewish guy.
3. A token and forgettable black guy.
4. An all-knowing, wise and all-seeing black woman.
5. A street-smart, barely literate Hispanic character who bails out the academics with practical knowledge about voo-doo and other superstitions.
6. A white woman in a bimbo role.

[xerxes]

Why? Why are all these classic movies being sequeled 20 years after the fact? It's ridiculous.

Top gun 2, Blade Runner 2, now this!

[bootlegga]

xerxes wrote:

Why? Why are all these classic movies being sequeled 20 years after the fact? It's ridiculous.

Top gun 2, Blade Runner 2, now this!

It's not a sequel, it's a "reboot"...and it's because Hollywood is generally unwilling to take a risk on unknown scripts.

[saturn_656]

From what I get this is "Ghostbusters: 90210". The old favorites are taking a backseat in this movie to a much younger cast, who I know damn well won't be as amusing as Bill Murray or Dan Aykroyd.

Those two were the core of that show.

[DrCaleb]

bootlegga wrote:

xerxes wrote:

Why? Why are all these classic movies being sequeled 20 years after the fact? It's ridiculous.

Top gun 2, Blade Runner 2, now this!

It's not a sequel, it's a "reboot"...and it's because Hollywood is generally unwilling to take a risk on unknown scripts.

And when they do, they give us "Snakes on a Plane".

Hollywood is lost.

[BartSimpson]

bootlegga wrote:

because Hollywood is generally unwilling to take a risk on original ideas.

Hope you don't mind the edit.

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb wrote:

bootlegga wrote:

xerxes wrote:

Why? Why are all these classic movies being sequeled 20 years after the fact? It's ridiculous.

Top gun 2, Blade Runner 2, now this!

It's not a sequel, it's a "reboot"...and it's because Hollywood is generally unwilling to take a risk on unknown scripts.

And when they do, they give us "Snakes on a Plane".

Hollywood is lost.

Well, Hollywood also gave us Inception, so not all is lost...maybe only 99%!

[jeff744]

xerxes wrote:

Why? Why are all these classic movies being sequeled 20 years after the fact? It's ridiculous.

Top gun 2, Blade Runner 2, now this!

No.....nononononono, google has also informed me of an I Am Legend 2.

It is no longer a matter of classics being remade, it is also now an issue of already classic books being further violated.

[bootlegga]

That movie is supposed to be a prequel to the 2007 film - and is supposed to focus on how he survived after his family was lost and everyone else either died or mutated.

However, according to the director Francis Lawrence, the movie is dead now...

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/05/03/i- ... s-lawrence

[jeff744]

bootlegga wrote:

That movie is supposed to be a prequel to the 2007 film - and is supposed to focus on how he survived after his family was lost and everyone else either died or mutated.

However, according to the director Francis Lawrence, the movie is dead now...

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/05/03/i- ... s-lawrence

Thank god, the book does not need more movies if they cannot keep the importance of the title intact.