New Ghostbusters movie in OG movie universe Jason Reitman directing 2020
 

Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full-trance mediums, the Loch Ness Monster and the theory of Atlantis?

If so, good news — there’s a new Ghostbusters movie in the works.

Entertainment Weekly has learned exclusively that Jason Reitman will direct and co-write an upcoming film set in the world that was saved decades previously by the proton pack-wearing working stiffs in the original 1984 movie, which was directed by his father, Ivan Reitman.

“I’ve always thought of myself as the first Ghostbusters fan, when I was a 6-year-old visiting the set. I wanted to make a movie for all the other fans,” Reitman says. “This is the next chapter in the original franchise. It is not a reboot. What happened in the ‘80s happened in the ‘80s, and this is set in the present day.”

Sony Pictures has dated the film for Summer 2020, with plans to start shooting in a few months.

It’s still too soon to reveal the plot of the screenplay, who the new characters will be, or whether the original actors like Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, or Bill Murray will return. Harold Ramis died in 2014.

“This is very early, and I want the film to unwrap like a present. We have a lot of wonderful surprises and new characters for the audience to meet,” says Reitman, who co-wrote the screenplay with Monster House and Poltergeist remake filmmaker Gil Kenan.

The all-female Ghostbusters movie that director Paul Feig made in 2016 with Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Kristen Wiig, and Melissa McCarthy started its story from scratch, unconnected to the earlier films, so it won’t have ties to this new one. “I have so much respect for what Paul created with those brilliant actresses, and would love to see more stories from them. However, this new movie will follow the trajectory of the original film,” Reitman says.

Reitman, an Oscar-nominee for Up in the Air and Juno, released two films last year — the Charlize Theron motherhood story Tully and the Hugh Jackman political drama The Front Runner.

He grew up idolizing his dad’s big-budget comedies like Stripes, Twins, and Dave, and says he was just as obsessed with Ghostbustersas any other ‘80s kid.

“I love everything about it. The iconography. The music. The tone,” Reitman says. “I remember being on set and seeing them try out the card catalog gag for the first time when the library ghost makes them come flying out. I remember the day they killed Stay Puft and I brought home a hardened piece of foam that just sat on a shelf for years. I was scared there was a terror dog underneath my bed before people knew what a terror dog was.”

Jason, his mother, and sister played panicked residents fleeing the “Spook Central” haunted skyscraper in the first film, but they were ultimately cut. (Here’s a shot of 6-year-old Jason posing with his father on the fractured Manhattan street they constructed.)
Courtesy of Reitman Family

A few years later, the boy did get a laugh line in the 1989 sequel, playing a birthday boy who was unimpressed by the Ghostbusters: “My dad says you guys are full of crap.”

When he began making his own movies, starting with 2005’s Thank You for Smoking, Reitman was often asked in interviews if he’d ever want to make his own Ghostbusters movie.

“I think I said, ‘There’d be no busting,’” he recalls with a laugh.

The truth is, he often wondered about making one, too: “I’ve thought about this franchise and it has occupied a piece of my heart for basically as long as I can remember.”

His father will produce the movie. “It will be a passing of the torch both inside and out,” says Ivan, adding that he’s touched his son wanted to join this part of the family business. “It was a decision he had to come to himself. He worked really hard to be independent and developed a wonderful career on his own. So I was quite surprised when he came to me with Gil and said, ‘I know I’ve been saying for 10 years I’m the last person who should make a Ghostbusters movie, but…I have this idea.’ Literally, I was crying by the end of it, it was so emotional and funny.”

Sony is also developing an animated Ghostbusters film, but that will come out after this new live-action project, and a different team will be involved in creating it.

“The Ghostbusters universe is big enough to hold a lot of different stories,” Jason says.


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I don't know how I feel about this. Ghostbusters was as important to me as the TMNT. I *love* that franchise.

For that reason, I positively refuse to watch the Feigman movie. It felt like such a poor attempt to cash in on the nostalgia/SJW fad that it just missed the whole point of the original films.

Also, I think something was lost with Harold Ramis that they'll never get back. That dry humor played so well off of Murray's nonchalance, Aykroyd's starry eyed positivity, and Hudson's reserved amazement.

They caught lightening in a bottle. It's going to be surprising if they do it again.

Well I’d like the 2016 movie to be connected somehow (even if it has to be an alternate universe :ohwell:) but I’m happy to get another movie.

I know Dan recently said a part 3 was happening and nobody really believed him. This sounds like a confirmation but I still have a hard time believing it.

F*** yeah.

Trailer!

When that one 52 second teaser felt more like ghostbusters than that terrible Fieg movie did

Yeah, that hits me right in the feels. This must be that "really cool thing" Aykroyd and company were talking about would come in 2019... just, 2020 instead now.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...-movie-1176512


What is unclear is if any of the original members will return. Sources say that Reitman is on the lookout to cast four teens in the movie, two boys and two girls.

I wonder how they will address that Harrold Ramis is gone. You can't have a Ghostbusters without Egon.

"All that are willing" is probably the real answer. Though if you think about how quick we've always heard about Bill Murray turning down Ghostbusters 3 script after Ghostbusters 3 script... the fact that there's radio silence on that is probably a really good sign.

Respectfully, I'm sure.

Looks interesting, hopefully it will be good and get this franchise back in action in a good way.

You know the real reason Murray was not really interested in Ghostbusters 3 was because he and Ramis had a falling out during/after filming Groundhogs Day.

I believe that they seem to be headed the right direction with this film. Both Sony and Warner Bros. were smart to have Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Ocean's 8, respectively, not completely start from scratch but at least acknowledge that the events of the previous films happened.

It's a little sad/annoying that everything says it is a sequel to "the original film." Not films, plural. There was two, y'know. Yeah, somewhere along the line it was decided we were supposed to look back on GB2 and hate it, but it happened.

I don't get why apparently GB2 gets a lot of hate online. It wasn't as good as the 1st one, but still entertaining. Plus, you can never have too much Bill Murray.

They definitively could get Aykroyd and Hudson to return and the Teaser Trailer does say "Bill Murray Movie" so maybe they know something.

I liked GB2. It had a couple of good moments. Like the Statue of Liberty scenes. I don't get the hate on it. I saw that sequel in the theaters when it first came out.

Gb2 repeated a tad too much from the first movie.

Venkman should have been married, oscar his kid. give ray a romantic interest for something different.

other than that small squabble (The video game would have explained everything going on with dana, making her a shandor and magnet for gozer stuff)....it did give us alot of new stuff...

the cool multi trap setup in the poltergeist scene. cool new ghosts. the end sequence.

I just think the 2nd movie suffered from them not having enough time to plan it out right.

I am with Vegita on that: GB2 was too much of a retread of the first one.
But it was not very bad. Soundtrack was outstanding.

I hope GB3 will materialize and will be a good movie.

Adapt Extreme Ghostbusters, have one cast member return as the mentor and everyone else new, hell include Answer the Call as in continuity just to **** with nerds.

Best part of GB2:

(I hope he has a cameo in GB3)

Wow I’m shocked there’s a teaser. Looks cool.

I remember Dan mentioned in an interview that he pictured the ecto 1 up on blocks, broken down somewhere waiting to be restored. I amazed how close that that is to his comments.

In his defense I’m sure he’s had plenty of legitimate ideas. Like actual stuff that he wants to do. Not just brainstormed thoughts.

It’s really sad how Bill Murray affected things. Reboot aside he purposely held the franchise down.

I wonder what the chances of Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, and Annie Potts returning?

I can see them being in GB3. But I doubt Rick Moranis would come out of retirement to play a small role.

It should be the Ecto-1A, though, shouldn't it? It'll be pretty weird if after Ghostbusters 2 they down-graded the Ecto-1A back to the Ecto-1 before mothballing it.

Word, man. Word.

Well he did voice Dark Helmet on an episode of The Goldbergs last year so anythings possible.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lUxXGqkllSOsCM

Ernie Hudson Dan aykroyd and Bill Murray will be Winston Ray and Peter in this movie

"The all-female 'Ghostbusters' movie directed by Paul Feig in 2016 was set in its own universe unconnected to the earlier films and will not have ties to Jason Reitman's new movie, which "will follow the trajectory of the original film."


https://i.imgur.com/6Myg1KG.gif

We'll see.

My favorite guy is dead; even the best possible attempt made with nothing but tender loving care, simply can't and won't be anything better than "pretty good, given the circumstances," to me. And that's not even their fault, but it's frustrating.

To be clear, nobody on this planet wanted Ghostbusters 3 more than I did, from 1990 up until a few years ago. I'll fight anyone who claims otherwise. But my absolute favorite part of it is gone, and I just can't get that enthusiasm back, ever, even if I'm willing to move on. They COULD have done it at any point, but petty nonsense robbed us of it, and part of me will never forgive them for it.

All that said, I am hopeful for whatever this turns out to be. I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, and will assume this is indeed a labor of love until proven otherwise. The last one had "soulless attempt to cash in on the franchise after Harold Ramis's death, made by a pack of ghouls" (pun intended) written all over it from the start, and thus, I was against it from the start. I was actually a bit shocked at HOW bad the reboot really is, not even just as a Ghostbusters movie, but just at everything. It's beyond the pale, just altogether worthless. I'm not sure how it even saw the light of day, except for the moral bankruptcy of the studio.

If nothing else, we more or less know the next one can't be worse. Hopefully, it will live up to what they're describing, and it will be respectful not only to the original films but to the memory of Harold Ramis. I'm not expecting or even hoping for much, but it almost has to be an improvement over last time.

It sounds like everyone's heart is in the right place this time. That in itself is the complete opposite of last time, so... hopefully they're sincere.

Looks like that was an interview from before any of this news broke... but fairly reassuring toward Murray being aboard.

Yeah, I'm a little concerned with the car thing that they may be pulling a "Halloween" with this... and only making it a direct sequel to the first one.

@AndrewNDB, ya I guess it should be the 1A car. I don’t think he was being specific just generally explaining what he pictured.

I know this is going to be in continuity with the originals but just because this movie does not technically acknowledge 2016 (within its runtime) doesn’t mean anything. Remember they wanted to do a universe.

Even though the reboot was not Dan’s idea exactly he did mention a story before about other dimensions and we know multiverses are a popular thing nowadays.

So a 2016 sequel or crossover movie is totally possible after this movie happens. They said an animated movie is still happening too. Whatever that’s like it’s potentially 3 separate universes.

I’m glad to see Dan has creative control. I’ve always trusted that he had a bunch of cool ideas for another movie. Even though people have actually criticized him for being stuck in the past or should let it go. Saying Murray knows better.

Nothing was Dan’s fault.

Thank God!

They wanted to do a universe (well, a multiverse) when they were still tabulating the 2016 movie's success. It wasn't one. Now they're not talking about that anymore.

Also, it doesn't sound like Dan has much to do with this creatively beyond maybe sticky notes that can be regarded or disregarded. Probably a good thing since Murray didn't like any of his scripts.

Ya it’s really not that far fetched imo to see some crossover movie down the line with different universes.

Bill Murray lost all credibility for me years ago. Who knows how many scripts/ideas he turned down. At least 1 had to be good. He just purposely kept refusing for whatever reasons only known to him.

Which would have been ok if he had not held it down and let everyone else do it.

Eh, I could see them bringing the 2016 Ghostbusters into some cameo if they're doing some major battle across dimensions or something -- to pay them respect and for the studio to go "we totally support them!" -- but that's about it. I'm not even sure if the Ghostbusters 2016 crossover comics made any money, let alone doing more film stuff with them.

Ya something like that.

So much for that idea we had about some villain or the government erasing everyone’s mind making the movie a Ghostbusters 3-ish :lol:

That really was a good idea. It just fit so well.

swing and a miss from Hollywood Reporter

Ghostbusters': Why Ignore the All-Female Reboot?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...reboot-1177318

this line gets me

"I think we suffer from this collective sense of nostalgia in film, where we're always looking to the past rather than the future"

You kind of loos the "looking to the future" when you remake/reboot a past ip. It's one of the reasons people say that movies aren't original anymore.

Movies haven't been original for a long time. when you think about it. Many movies are inspired by previous work. Not a day goes by. when you see a movie. And think. Its similar to one you seen a while back. You have movies that influence other movies. And it goes on and on.

Something I will say about the reboot is that I was one of the people that was very hopeful and excited to see it in theaters opening day. I hyped myself up so much that I was finally getting to see a GB movie in theaters (since I wasn't born when the originals came out) and told myself I would reserve all judgement until I had seen it. When I saw it, I thought it was okay, but it definitely had its problems. But honestly the thing I enjoyed about it the most wasn't even the movie, it was watching the audience. The adults were bored but the kids loved it! There was one kid in front of us that had to be about 5 or 6 and he was getting all excited, he would cover his eyes when it got "scary" and then peak from behind his hands, and then when something happened like the Manor ghost vomiting on the main woman or the goat demon knocking Bill Murray out of the window he would bust up laughing. I only saw it in theaters once but when it came out on DVD I waited until it was in the $5 bin and went ahead and bought it. My son is now 6 and he loves the originals and the cartoon but prefers the reboot. If anything I am most excited about this one to take him to the theater so he can have fun and enjoy it. If I like it, great! If not then maybe he will and we can sneak cans of Ecto cooler in and have fun together. I will still have the originals if this one fails to satisfy me.
For the record it wasn't them turning the team all female that made me not enjoy it as much as I wanted to. My favorite non-original member of the entire franchise is Kylie Griffin. You CAN have girl busters and make them work. IDW is an example of that. The reboot was just poorly written. The effects were nice though. I think it may have worked better (basically not pissing people off) if they just made them the kids of the OG busters but then again that could've flopped as well. I'm going into this one optimistic and will hope for the best, maybe they have something really good planned with these teens, if that news ends up being true. Worse case scenario it will be a movie we pick up on clearance for my kid, and hopefully they will do another release of Ecto Cooler and ACTUALLY PUT SLIMER ON THE FRONT!