New Ghostbusters movie in OG movie universe Jason Reitman directing 2020 - Page 45

*Andrew NDB* · 02-02-2022, 07:42 PM

I really hope what Jason Reitman was suggesting in the interview about Vigo coming back possibly was in jest. I was OK with Gozer coming back for added connective material but beyond that... c'mon. 30 years, let's get a new villain.

*Wildcat* · 02-02-2022, 10:54 PM

There’s plenty of interest in it continuing. It just released in other countries and Blu Ray so I don’t expect an announcement yet. There’s no limit.

Ernie Hudson and Dan Aykroyd are the only originals that need to return. They’ve already said they will. Whatever they come up with it just needs to have Pheobe and her family. Paul Rudd would be nice too.

I have not thought of an actual storyline but I came up with this.

Callie and Mr. Grooberson get married. They move to NY where Phoebe and Trevor work part time at the firehouse while going to school. Mr. Grooberson becomes a ghostbuster with Winston and Ray who manage the business but sometimes go on calls. Team is Pheobe, Trevor and Grooberson.

It was suggested to me Podcast and Lucky could join if they’re on vacation and visit them. I like that idea. Podcast could goto Ray’s bookstore.

Storyline could be about the business getting back on it’s feet...again! (blame GB2

still love it) They need to become operational again and address what was happening with the containment unit in the credits scene.

Opening or mid-fight: Pheobe attends a science/technology convention to give a presentation on the proton pack and trap and proper recognition to Egon’s work. During the event the ghost of a mad scientist appears and she must use the equipment. Trevor arrives in the Ecto1 to assist her.

~~Leo656~~ · 02-02-2022, 10:58 PM

Post-credits scene definitely feels like the entire point is to do another movie with Winston as the team's "elder statesman" and bringing the Ghostbusters back to life. Whether that means the next movie has any of the kids from this one in it as part of the team, that's anyone's guess but I'd be surprised if they didn't. Reaction to Grace, in particular, was overwhelmingly positive and she's apparently on the cusp of becoming a rather big star, from what I've been reading. If they don't keep her involved, at least, then they're crazy.

*Andrew NDB* · 02-02-2022, 11:08 PM

Yep. Winston and Ray in prominent roles supervisory roles... and then any Peter and/or Dana we get is a bonus. Not required but it'd be swell.

I don't think they'd have the kids be OFFICIAL Ghostbusters... nor could they, really, legally. But some kind of movie where there is a new team and they somehow fail or need help... here come the gang from Afterlife.

The main team? Paul Rudd would be on it of course. Plus Oscar? Then fill in the blanks.

I don't think they'd have Janine answering phones anymore, so what would you reckon she'd be doing? Some kind of upper management?

*Wildcat* · 02-03-2022, 12:11 AM

Finn Wolfhard is 19 in real life. Trevor could legally be a Ghostbuster.

McKenna Grace is 15. Phoebe could be an intern and whatever scenes she fights in would be an emergency situation like the one I came up with...she knows what she’s doing.

Celeste O’Connor is 23. Logan Kim is the youngest. Podcast could just hangout with Ray or something.

I don’t think introducing another new member is necessary at this point. There’s enough people to form a team for Winston and Ray.

Lucky’s character was just roped into things so it depends if they want to keep that relationship going or if she wants to return.

McKenna Grace needs to return as a main character though. She was great but it would also be very weird to have someone “replace” Egon’s Granddaughter temporarily. Just work around her age for 1 movie.

*Andrew NDB* · 02-03-2022, 12:28 AM

For sure, McKenna Grace would stay the central figure. But maybe it'd be less us as the audience following "the team" around as much as it might be us as the audience following her around, who is following "the team." Or maybe her and her buddy Podcast are doing some kind of "ride along" with them one day (for Podcast's show, maybe?) when the sh**t hits the fan, and they get to tag along the whole way.

*Wildcat* · 02-03-2022, 12:58 AM

I like the ride along idea and Podcast documenting it for his show.

I just don’t think introducing new members is necessary. “Unofficially” Pheobe, Trevor, Mr. Grooberson, and Lucky/Winston/Ray is enough.

Afterlife takes place in 2021 because of the delay. Wasn’t it mentioned that Pheobe was 12 and Trevor 14? That might complicate it a little if it takes place immediately after the credits scene.

Unless they want to explain away the containment unit and time lapse to when they reopen. Maybe Winston fixed whatever was about to happen.

*Autbot_Benz* · 02-05-2022, 10:52 PM

This was everything I wanted in a 3rd ghostbusters movie. Paying tribute to the Past while moving to the future.

OMG seeing the 4 guys albet one ghost egon was fantastic I like the new characters too. I really hope this gets a sequel. Only took 5 years to finally get it right.

Also The Ray Parker JR Ghostbusters theme at the end was chefs kiss

How they handled Egon was fantastic. How Sony decided the 2016 movie was the way to go before this one is mind boggling

*Coola Yagami* · 02-05-2022, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

How they handled Egon was fantastic. How Sony decided the 2016 movie was the way to go before this one is mind boggling

That's what boggles the mind. Failbusters was never meant to be a part 3. It was a reboot. I guess they got mad cause it failed miserably and didn't start its own trilogy, but that would have been worse. That would have been pretty much replacing the originals.

I guess they thought there was never gonna be an official part 3. It pisses them off savagely that an actual sequel was made and it ignored the 2016 one. But I mean.... YOU GUYS chose to make it a reboot. Of course an actual sequel would ignore it. It's not in the same continuity.

*Andrew NDB* · 02-06-2022, 12:08 AM

What if they continue things as a TV show? On some major streaming platform?

*Wildcat* · 02-06-2022, 12:44 AM

A live action show would be amazing now that tv has caught up to movie quality but unfortunately it would probably be streaming exclusive (so thankful Chucky was put on network tv).

The cartoon Ecto Force might is still be planned.

For all we all know GB4 could be getting written already.

*IMJ* · 02-06-2022, 10:19 AM

Ghostbusters would make a for a GREAT T.V. series.....

In the old days when these shows got weeks and weeks of shows instead of like.... 6 a season, Ghostbusters would've made for a great "ghost of the week" anthology-comedy.

*CyberCubed* · 02-06-2022, 10:56 AM

Isn't that what the 80's cartoon did? Just have them go after a different ghost every episode that was causing a problem in the city?

*IMJ* · 02-06-2022, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Isn't that what the 80's cartoon did? Just have them go after a different ghost every episode that was causing a problem in the city?

Yeah pretty much.

On that note I was talking to a buddy about this movie the other day and thought how cool would it be if they released a Ghostbusters set with all of these flicks and the animated series all in a boxed set like they did with that Back to The Future mega-set some years back?

That'd be pretty neat.....

*sdp* · 02-06-2022, 11:38 AM

Ghostbusters is a thing of the past, it feels dated and from the 80s. If it didn't become a bigger franchise when it was at its peak, it's not going to become that today. Like Terminator and aliens/predator, they just feel from another time the same way dracula/frankenstein feel from another time. Yeah they're neat and fans who grew up with them might love them but who really cares about Dracula as a scary figure in this day and age, he was a joke since the age of scooby doo, if you're doing vampires you don't do dracula.

Extreme Ghostbusters failed to get a new generation excited for the franchise in the 90s and it's failed twice in the span of 5 years (2016/2021). It'll be profitable with the boomers who grew up with it and the few new fans it might make along the way but it won't ever be big thing like what they wanted with ghostcorps or whatever BS cinematic universe they were attempting a couple of years back. Look at Jurassic Park, like or hate Jurassic World; It was able to bring in a new kid audience just like the original movie did so it's doing great by appealing to the boomer audience who grew up with the movie like me and to a whole new generation and that's why it's a huge hit.

I got a lot of hate for pointing this same thing a few years back in the thread but it turned out to be true and is still true. For example this franchise missed me completely, I caught some reruns of the cartoon in the 90s but not many so it never became a big thing for me. Extreme Ghostbusters looked cool but it also came and went so I watched like 2 episodes and anime was just way cooler than ghostbusting at that point in my life. I didn't watch the movies until like 2006 or something when a DVD set came out and I wanted to check them out. They were fun movies but they didn't change my life, haven't ever re-watched them. Watched 2026 and while not a good movie it isn't a horrible movie, just a less interesting version of the originals which weren't world changing things.

It's cool the franchise got one last hoorah for fans with Afterlife but this will never be a franchise and that's for the best.

~~Leo656~~ · 02-06-2022, 03:13 PM

Other things which "missed you completely":

- A speeding bus
- A falling plane engine
- A firing squad
- A straightened-out coat hanger in the womb

.......And that's a real f*cking tragedy.

*IMJ* · 02-06-2022, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Leo656

Other things which "missed you completely":

- A speeding bus
- A falling plane engine
- A firing squad
- A straightened-out coat hanger in the womb

.......And that's a real f*cking tragedy.

I hate to say this but I foundationally can't help but agree with some of what he said there. But as usual without his level of suspicious vitriol towards these things or anything that he deems as "old". But if you take SDP's oddball $#!( away, some of his thought there is cogent.

I mean - Lady Ghostbusters failed because people didn't like the messaging or the assaults that came with it. Inversely this movie did well mostly based on the nostalgia payoff that Lady Ghostbusters called us misogynists' for wanting.

One of them led to a better payoff, but neither of them leads to a completely revitalized billion dollar franchise. With that said, if Ghostbusters wasn't created in the 80's, I don't know that it could have been then conceptualized and created nowadays. You know?

On that note, I don't know why that dip$#!( keeps calling Gen X'ers "Boomers" though. It shows a complete lack of understanding of the concept, or it's a full admission to being a troll by using it as a blanket insult to anyone born before 1995 or something.

*ranger_scout* · 02-09-2022, 08:40 PM

The other day, the film surpassed the North American box office total of the 2016 reboot.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottme...h=4d3fd9c9147a

*Andrew NDB* · 02-09-2022, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by IMJ

I hate to say this but I foundationally can't help but agree with some of what he said there. But as usual without his level of suspicious vitriol towards these things or anything that he deems as "old". But if you take SDP's oddball $#!( away, some of his thought there is cogent.

I mean - Lady Ghostbusters failed because people didn't like the messaging or the assaults that came with it. Inversely this movie did well mostly based on the nostalgia payoff that Lady Ghostbusters called us misogynists' for wanting.

One of them led to a better payoff, but neither of them leads to a completely revitalized billion dollar franchise. With that said, if Ghostbusters wasn't created in the 80's, I don't know that it could have been then conceptualized and created nowadays. You know?

On that note, I don't know why that dip$#!( keeps calling Gen X'ers "Boomers" though. It shows a complete lack of understanding of the concept, or it's a full admission to being a troll by using it as a blanket insult to anyone born before 1995 or something.

But now imagine if GB 2016 had never happened, and now we get Afterlife. I think it'd be a lot more well received. A lot of people burned with GB 2016 probably didn't whow up for the perceived "Kid-Busters," and all the SJWs that might have rallied behind "Hey sweet, a female lead! Even if she's a kid!" are now just spewing vile on it because it abandons the 2016 cast.

~~Leo656~~ · 02-09-2022, 09:02 PM

Whoever decided to put Leslie Jones on TV deserves to be shot in the f*cking face.

Huge, fat, ugly, obnoxious... She hits a Grand Slam on being Just F*cking Terrible. Unforgivably offensive to all five major senses.

McCarthy isn't much better. Seriously, put me in the f*cking room with whoever decided that fat, ugly people get to be TV and movie stars now. Because I absolutely do not agree.

02-02-2022, 07:42 PM	#881
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,573	I really hope what Jason Reitman was suggesting in the interview about Vigo coming back possibly was in jest. I was OK with Gozer coming back for added connective material but beyond that... c'mon. 30 years, let's get a new villain. __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

02-02-2022, 10:54 PM	#882
Wildcat Foot Elite Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: AZ Posts: 3,516	There’s plenty of interest in it continuing. It just released in other countries and Blu Ray so I don’t expect an announcement yet. There’s no limit. Ernie Hudson and Dan Aykroyd are the only originals that need to return. They’ve already said they will. Whatever they come up with it just needs to have Pheobe and her family. Paul Rudd would be nice too. I have not thought of an actual storyline but I came up with this. Callie and Mr. Grooberson get married. They move to NY where Phoebe and Trevor work part time at the firehouse while going to school. Mr. Grooberson becomes a ghostbuster with Winston and Ray who manage the business but sometimes go on calls. Team is Pheobe, Trevor and Grooberson. It was suggested to me Podcast and Lucky could join if they’re on vacation and visit them. I like that idea. Podcast could goto Ray’s bookstore. Storyline could be about the business getting back on it’s feet...again! (blame GB2 still love it) They need to become operational again and address what was happening with the containment unit in the credits scene. Opening or mid-fight: Pheobe attends a science/technology convention to give a presentation on the proton pack and trap and proper recognition to Egon’s work. During the event the ghost of a mad scientist appears and she must use the equipment. Trevor arrives in the Ecto1 to assist her. __________________ Nothing can survive the will to stay alive, cause if you try, you can do anything.

02-02-2022, 11:08 PM	#884
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,573	Yep. Winston and Ray in prominent roles supervisory roles... and then any Peter and/or Dana we get is a bonus. Not required but it'd be swell. I don't think they'd have the kids be OFFICIAL Ghostbusters... nor could they, really, legally. But some kind of movie where there is a new team and they somehow fail or need help... here come the gang from Afterlife. The main team? Paul Rudd would be on it of course. Plus Oscar? Then fill in the blanks. I don't think they'd have Janine answering phones anymore, so what would you reckon she'd be doing? Some kind of upper management? __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

02-03-2022, 12:11 AM	#885
Wildcat Foot Elite Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: AZ Posts: 3,516	Finn Wolfhard is 19 in real life. Trevor could legally be a Ghostbuster. McKenna Grace is 15. Phoebe could be an intern and whatever scenes she fights in would be an emergency situation like the one I came up with...she knows what she’s doing. Celeste O’Connor is 23. Logan Kim is the youngest. Podcast could just hangout with Ray or something. I don’t think introducing another new member is necessary at this point. There’s enough people to form a team for Winston and Ray. Lucky’s character was just roped into things so it depends if they want to keep that relationship going or if she wants to return. McKenna Grace needs to return as a main character though. She was great but it would also be very weird to have someone “replace” Egon’s Granddaughter temporarily. Just work around her age for 1 movie. __________________ Nothing can survive the will to stay alive, cause if you try, you can do anything.

02-03-2022, 12:28 AM	#886
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,573	For sure, McKenna Grace would stay the central figure. But maybe it'd be less us as the audience following "the team" around as much as it might be us as the audience following her around, who is following "the team." Or maybe her and her buddy Podcast are doing some kind of "ride along" with them one day (for Podcast's show, maybe?) when the sh**t hits the fan, and they get to tag along the whole way. __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

02-02-2022, 10:58 PM	#883
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	Post-credits scene definitely feels like the entire point is to do another movie with Winston as the team's "elder statesman" and bringing the Ghostbusters back to life. Whether that means the next movie has any of the kids from this one in it as part of the team, that's anyone's guess but I'd be surprised if they didn't. Reaction to Grace, in particular, was overwhelmingly positive and she's apparently on the cusp of becoming a rather big star, from what I've been reading. If they don't keep her involved, at least, then they're crazy.

02-03-2022, 12:58 AM	#887
Wildcat Foot Elite Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: AZ Posts: 3,516	I like the ride along idea and Podcast documenting it for his show. I just don’t think introducing new members is necessary. “Unofficially” Pheobe, Trevor, Mr. Grooberson, and Lucky/Winston/Ray is enough. Afterlife takes place in 2021 because of the delay. Wasn’t it mentioned that Pheobe was 12 and Trevor 14? That might complicate it a little if it takes place immediately after the credits scene. Unless they want to explain away the containment unit and time lapse to when they reopen. Maybe Winston fixed whatever was about to happen. __________________ Nothing can survive the will to stay alive, cause if you try, you can do anything.

02-05-2022, 10:52 PM	#888
Autbot_Benz Hellblazer Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Ventura California Posts: 9,193	This was everything I wanted in a 3rd ghostbusters movie. Paying tribute to the Past while moving to the future. OMG seeing the 4 guys albet one ghost egon was fantastic I like the new characters too. I really hope this gets a sequel. Only took 5 years to finally get it right. Also The Ray Parker JR Ghostbusters theme at the end was chefs kiss How they handled Egon was fantastic. How Sony decided the 2016 movie was the way to go before this one is mind boggling __________________ I respect what FW cartoon did for the turtles franchise but it is the most overrated and hard to watch of the 3 turtles cartoons.

02-06-2022, 12:08 AM	#890
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,573	What if they continue things as a TV show? On some major streaming platform? __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]

02-06-2022, 12:44 AM	#891
Wildcat Foot Elite Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: AZ Posts: 3,516	A live action show would be amazing now that tv has caught up to movie quality but unfortunately it would probably be streaming exclusive (so thankful Chucky was put on network tv). The cartoon Ecto Force might is still be planned. For all we all know GB4 could be getting written already. __________________ Nothing can survive the will to stay alive, cause if you try, you can do anything.

02-06-2022, 10:19 AM	#892
IMJ Emperor Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Midwest, U.S.A. Posts: 8,895	Ghostbusters would make a for a GREAT T.V. series..... In the old days when these shows got weeks and weeks of shows instead of like.... 6 a season, Ghostbusters would've made for a great "ghost of the week" anthology-comedy. __________________ Wave 1 Collectibles Online Market Watch Blog Collection Photography

02-06-2022, 10:56 AM	#893
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,887	Isn't that what the 80's cartoon did? Just have them go after a different ghost every episode that was causing a problem in the city?

02-06-2022, 11:38 AM	#895
sdp Detoxed Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Tokio, Italy Posts: 11,222	Ghostbusters is a thing of the past, it feels dated and from the 80s. If it didn't become a bigger franchise when it was at its peak, it's not going to become that today. Like Terminator and aliens/predator, they just feel from another time the same way dracula/frankenstein feel from another time. Yeah they're neat and fans who grew up with them might love them but who really cares about Dracula as a scary figure in this day and age, he was a joke since the age of scooby doo, if you're doing vampires you don't do dracula. Extreme Ghostbusters failed to get a new generation excited for the franchise in the 90s and it's failed twice in the span of 5 years (2016/2021). It'll be profitable with the boomers who grew up with it and the few new fans it might make along the way but it won't ever be big thing like what they wanted with ghostcorps or whatever BS cinematic universe they were attempting a couple of years back. Look at Jurassic Park, like or hate Jurassic World; It was able to bring in a new kid audience just like the original movie did so it's doing great by appealing to the boomer audience who grew up with the movie like me and to a whole new generation and that's why it's a huge hit. I got a lot of hate for pointing this same thing a few years back in the thread but it turned out to be true and is still true. For example this franchise missed me completely, I caught some reruns of the cartoon in the 90s but not many so it never became a big thing for me. Extreme Ghostbusters looked cool but it also came and went so I watched like 2 episodes and anime was just way cooler than ghostbusting at that point in my life. I didn't watch the movies until like 2006 or something when a DVD set came out and I wanted to check them out. They were fun movies but they didn't change my life, haven't ever re-watched them. Watched 2026 and while not a good movie it isn't a horrible movie, just a less interesting version of the originals which weren't world changing things. It's cool the franchise got one last hoorah for fans with Afterlife but this will never be a franchise and that's for the best. Last edited by sdp; 02-06-2022 at 03:38 PM.

02-06-2022, 03:13 PM	#896
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	Other things which "missed you completely": - A speeding bus - A falling plane engine - A firing squad - A straightened-out coat hanger in the womb .......And that's a real f*cking tragedy.

02-09-2022, 08:40 PM	#898
ranger_scout Foot Elite Join Date: May 2014 Location: Texas Posts: 3,776	The other day, the film surpassed the North American box office total of the 2016 reboot. https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottme...h=4d3fd9c9147a

02-09-2022, 09:02 PM	#900
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	Whoever decided to put Leslie Jones on TV deserves to be shot in the fcking face. Huge, fat, ugly, obnoxious... She hits a Grand Slam on being Just Fcking Terrible. Unforgivably offensive to all five major senses. McCarthy isn't much better. Seriously, put me in the f*cking room with whoever decided that fat, ugly people get to be TV and movie stars now. Because I absolutely do not agree.