More Ghostbusters movies coming

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

I think the only way I'd have appreciated seeing the old guard back in their original characters is if they were doing what Winston, Venkman, and Stantz would be up to in a world where Egon was taken too young.

That could work. Imagine another big ghost invasion... and the Ghostbusters are just mulling around, long retired and out of business (again). Occasionally they visit Egon's grave, and that's the only time they see each other. Columbia University students seek them out one by one for help with the invasion, but they're just not having it. They're old and retired and those days are long behind them, and all of that enthusiasm died with Egon.

Then we get the big Ghostbusters version of Unforgiven, with them taking the ibuprofen and grudgingly getting back in the saddle (or putting on the proton packs, in this case) to take on the new ghost Big Bad, played by some big, popular British actor or something. With or without the Columbia students on the team. Probably with, to appeal to younger audiences.

We're never going to see eye to eye on this.
I'm just shocked you're in support of more studio meddling.

Not in general. But Ghostbusters (2016) certainly needed... eh, something other than what it got. To put it diplomatically.