GHOSTBUSTERS 3 just keeps gaining momentum, and why shouldn’t it? Everyone wants it. The players behind it seem keen to do it. And now it looks like the man behind the first two outings, legendary comedy director Ivan Reitman, will be returning once again to direct this third installment. Josh Horowitz at MTV spoke to Reitman recently, and got a bit of info out of him on the subject.
The only thing that scares me is that supposedly the working script was penned by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, who wrote the absolutely unfunny and awful YEAR ONE – which incidentally was one of my picks for worst films of 2009. Maybe they’ll overcome that, one can hope. Apparently (according to Reitman) their script has been turned in, and a second draft is being worked on. Ivan stated “They have delivered a draft,” and “We are working our way through another draft… good work is being done and all of us have our fingers crossed.”
Then MTV cornered him on Sigourney Weaver’s rumor dropping, regarding Bill Murray playing a ghost, and her on-screen son Oscar growing up to be a Ghostbuster. Reitman stated the following:
“I’m not going to comment on what’s in the script and on what Sigourney may or may not have said. She’s been so busy on ‘Avatar,’ I’ve not been able to find her. There’s some very cool things in the new draft, let’s just put it that way.”
Ivan was quoted as saying, “I hope to start shooting in this next year” – Harold Ramis had previously said the film was shooting for a 2011 release, and if it goes into production soon, that’s entirely possible. When asked specifically if he would return to direct the third outing, Reitman answered – “Yes.” So we’ve got Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, hopefully Ernie Hudson, and possibly Rick Moranis (who is saying he’d break his retirement from acting for this) – these next few years feel like someone asked my generation “What do you guys want to see on the big screen?” – and then said yes to all requests. There is a God.
Check out more on this (including the actual video interview) at MTV
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Just imagine how incredibly awesome the ghosts would look with todays movie technology, WOW!
Rogue GB3 Plot Theory:
ACT I:
It’s 20 years later and Sigourney Weavers son (from GB2) is all grown up and is as uninterested in joining his dad in the GB business (which has in recent years come close to bankruptcy do to a major reduction of ghost sightings in recent years) as anyone can be and so he and his dad (Bill Murray) are at odds. One day while on a job, a big job, the GB’s just disappear. After a few weeks the kids of the other 3 GBs show up at the door of Bill Murrays son demanding he help them find out what happened to their dads. None are familiar with Ghost Busting or even believe in Ghosts; they are just stories their dads told them as kids to scare them and the almost zero ghost sighting in the past 5 years (while the kids went from kids to young adults) also lead to their disbelief in sprits.
They all decided to investigate and they have a run in(while visiting the old medieval town their fathers were doing the job at) they run into a real genuine ghost and are scared away. After some debate about whether what they all saw was real they decide their fathers weren’t lying all those years and that they would have to learn Ghost Busting if they were going to find out what happened to their fathers; enter Rick Morranis’s character. Since the 4 GB’s are gone the only person left with any understanding of Ghost Busting (or any experience) is Rick Moranises character. After several tries they convince him to train them or at least tell them how to use the equipment including going on a few small supposedly easy jobs to get in some practice
ACT II:
The whole second act involves them getting some training with the equipment and even going out on a few small jobs. Soon after their fathers disappeared there began a steady increase in ghost sightings, almost as if the spirit world heard the GBs were gone and it was now safe to come back out.
It’s 28 days since the GBs first disappeared and one night all of the kids (who are sleeping in the old GB headquarters and in the GB suits at this time) have the same dream but with each seeing their own father in the dream. It’s a warning that if they don’t move soon their fathers will be lost forever. The next day, in spite of protest from their moms, especially Sigourney Weavers character, they head out to the same town their fathers disappeared in.
ACT III:
Without too much detail here the summary is that they enter the town, take out a few minor ghosts with one or 2 of them being injured in the process before they eventually get to a place (physically) were they learn what happened to their dads. They see a replay of events of their dads coming to the town and what happened and how they were actually betrayed by someone they trusted. The kids don’t see who the person was but they are informed that their dads were betrayed and that’s how they were caught off guard. Eventually they make their way to the final battle stage and discover that Sigourney Weaver is tied up in the corner and had been there the whole time. Enter the fake Sigourney Weaver character who it turns out is a major high up the chain demon who captured Sigourney and used her as bait to lure the GBS out. The demon of course reveals why and then proceeds to kill the kids who fight back as best they can. Just when the kids are down and the demon is ready to strike the death blow, we see Rick Moranis’s character enter, dressed in full GB attire with the ghosts/spirits of the original 4GB’s pushing him all the way. He is able to distract the demon long enough for Bill Murrays kid to get to his pack, make a few adjustments and then zap the demon. Bye-bye demon.
In the end we find that the ‘lost’ being referred to was lost in the afterlife and not physically lost. The original GB’s had idea 30 days back but their spirits or souls had been trapped by this demon and detsined to be lost in the spirit worked and not allowed to move on. We see the GB’s regain physical form long enough to tell their kids how proud they are and that they love them and that they now have to move on. They change back into their ethereal form and move into the famous tunnel of light that has now appeared. They free Sigourney Weaver’s character and take her home.
1 Week Later.. Cut to the GB headquarters, zoom in on the phone which rings.
We see from behind that someone answers the phone and says sure we can do that. Next they push the siren and the traditional GB alarm goes off. We see several people shuffling around but only their legs or backs, never their heads or faces. The GB car rolls out and to its destination where all 4 doors open and 2 guys and 2 girls get out. They turn and we see (facing the front of the car) the 4 kids each suited up and ready to go. Cut to GB music & credits