New Ghostbusters movie in OG movie universe Jason Reitman directing 2020

[Coola Yagami]

I'm very interested. I hope the 'introductory stuff' isn't too long and boring. You know what I mean, like I hope the one girl doesn't find the ghost trap an hour in or whatever.

It does kinda bite it will mostly be from these guys POV. I would have liked to have seen what Ray, Pete and Winston were up to after all these years, as in, from THEIR POV, but I guess this is the best they could do with whatever limited screen time they could get these guys for.

[CyberCubed]

Not really feeling excited, but then again only the first movie was good, with the second being fine.

[oldmanwinters]

Really glad to see Annie Potts. That one innocuous little line she had was somehow perfect.

[Andrew NDB]

Putting Venkman IN the trailer bodes really well.

* oh.... on closer listening that's totally Ray. My bad. Still cool. I'd reckon Ray will get the lion's share of the OG presence, and he probably should.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

So Far this looks great.

It does!!!
I'm so on board!

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

Really glad to see Annie Potts. That one innocuous little line she had was somehow perfect.

YEeeessssss!!!!

[Andrew NDB]

Is the implication that Janine is the... mother of the mother in the movie? The grandma of the kids? Otherwise she left her whole life in NY just to look after Egon?

Also everyone who complained about "it's kids!" shouldn't need to worry. If they make a sequel, by the time they start filming they'd be adults basically.

[TigerClaw]

Director Jason Reitman does a breakdown of the new trailer.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

Director Jason Reitman does a breakdown of the new trailer.

Zarius literally posted that already this morning.

[Coola Yagami]

Too bad this wasn't done when Egon was around, or before they all got hella-old. I wonder if this one will acknowledge that part 2 happened.

IDK, I kinda feel the thought that the Ghostbusters just had this thing one big adventure (the whole deal with Gozer)..... and that was it makes me feel some sort of way. Maybe the cartoons spoiled me but it sounds cool to see them actually have a career of chasing ghosts before they hung it up rather than what was basically... idk... one or two weeks, maybe a month or however long the events of the first movie were.

I mean if all they had was just the Marshmallow Man, it's no wonder they faded in to obscurity and nobody remembers them. It was all just 'that wild summer of 85 bro' or something. Honestly, if a giant Marshmallow Man attacked the city way back in the 80's, by the time you're an adult you'll wonder if it ever really happened.

[CyberCubed]

I doubt the cartoons or comics are canon. They got a children's cartoon in the 80's and some licensed comics from IDW, none of those are part of movie continuity.

[Leo656]

Yeah, the cartoons and movies are two separate universes. The original movie is a thing within the cartoon universe (what with there being an episode of the cartoon which mentions the movie, along with Venkman saying that the actor they got to play him "Doesn't look a thing like me!" ), but it's pretty clear by watching Ghostbusters II that nothing from the cartoons ever happened in that universe.

In the cartoon timeline, the events of the first movie were just the beginning of their adventures, whereas in the movies' timeline they were sued out of existence immediately after The Gozer Incident and thus nothing from the cartoons could have happened.

In the end, it's up to the individual to decide which timeline is the "real" one.

[sdp]

I base my canon on PHYSICAL MEDIA, hence so far everything that is canon in the movie universe is packed together:


Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Ghostbusters III Answer the Call and eventually when Ghostbusters IV Afterlife comes out it'll be a tetratrilogy. And that's where the saga will end since I doubt the new movie will do well.


Is the official youtube still uploading one episode per week of the cartoon? They'll never finish.

[frank_one]

What about the 2009 videogame?

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by sdp

I base my canon on PHYSICAL MEDIA, hence so far everything that is canon in the movie universe is packed together:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....j46kL._AC_.jpg

Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Ghostbusters III Answer the Call and eventually when Ghostbusters IV Afterlife comes out it'll be a tetratrilogy. And that's where the saga will end since I doubt the new movie will do well.


Is the official youtube still uploading one episode per week of the cartoon? They'll never finish.

Right, and the CGI TMNT movie is "canon" with the earlier three live action movies just because they put it on a DVD with them. Except it 100% absolutely isn't.

And then there's this:
https://www.target.com/p/5-film-coll...B&gclsrc=aw.ds

I suppose "Batman vs. TMNT" is canon with the 1990 movie because they're in the same box set.

I'd tell you not to be obtuse, but... well, it's You.

[sdp]

I don't make the rules, I only fix the mess that they made, like the Meg Ryan Tom Hanks Trilogy which came in a DVD box set together.

After the events of joe vs the volcano they become traumatized and both get amnesia and live their own lives and forget their names which later sleepless in seattle happens and they meet and fall in love again through the radio but after the movie ends the kid from that movie dies they separate as they willowed in darkness and change their legal names and try to move on, chatting online they accidentally meet each other fall in love only to realize it's them, they don't question it since they know it's true love and Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan live happily ever after.

[Leo656]

Lead Paint Syndrome is real, kids.

[Andrew NDB]

Huh. I forgot Meg Ryan was in Joe vs. The Volcano. But I do remember really not liking that movie.

Originally Posted by Leo656

Right, and the CGI TMNT movie is "canon" with the earlier three live action movies just because they put it on a DVD with them. Except it 100% absolutely isn't.

100% it is. Unless Munroe and everyone else involved with it has been lying for over a decade.

[Leo656]

Yeah, ALL the irreconcilable differences just go away because One Guy says so.

"Look! The Time Scepter!" doesn't force the square peg into the round hole.

It's no different from MOTU: Revelation. They can call it a "Filmation Sequel" all they want. It isn't. It's a new thing with some Easter Eggs that call back to the previous thing, no more and no less. And that's all the CGI TMNT movie is.

[Autbot_Benz]

Ignore SDP's nonsense Answer The Call is not #3 it has nothing to do with the first two movies. Answer the call is never packed with 1 and 2 in the states. Afterlife will be #3 since it ties into the first two movies.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

Ignore SDP's nonsense Answer The Call is not #3 it has nothing to do with the first two movies. Answer the call is never packed with 1 and 2 in the states. Afterlife will be #3 since it ties into the first two movies.

https://i.imgur.com/jmK2BA8.jpg

I actually have seen DVDs that package "Answer The Call" with the first two movies. And I live in NJ.

But that still doesn't mean anything, it's just a cheap way for people who like Ghostbusters to get all three movies for ten dollars. It doesn't automatically mean they're in the same canon.