Dan Aykroyd is still working on a Ghostbusters 3 script

[Judge Holden]

They drink it in their Ghostbusters 2016 review and Mike gets kind of hammered... currently watching it, tbh. After the vodka was mentioned, I just had to rewatch it.

Best moments in the episode were watching Mike get progressively more trashed

 

[Secret Asshole]

People don't acknowledge Murray fucking HATED Harold Ramis. It has nothing to do with Murray being worn down enough or hated sequels. The guy doesn't give a fuck and only cameoed in fem busters because of the the threat of lawsuits.

It started when they had a lot of trouble on groundhog day where Ramis wanted it to be a comedy and Bill wanted it more moody and serious. Bill threw tantrums, came late and became impossible to work with. It got so bad Ramis grabbed Murray by the collar and shoved him against the wall. Murray can sting like that.

Even though Groundhog Day was pretty amazing, Murray refused to work with Ramis ever again. Ramis tried to repair the relationship many times, but Murray never responded and they didn't talk until Ramis was on his deathbed. It's not fair to call them enemies since Ramis always desired to repair his friendship.

Ghostbusters 3 was never going to happen because of this. Now that Ramis is dead, he goes.

It's hard for me to like Murray because of this. He was always a prima donna but being this much of a prick over a critical and cult classic is too much for me. Like you don't even try to bury the hatchet until the guy is literally dying? Because you had disagreements over a film and it turned intense? Shit happens all the time. It's really hard for me to find him likeable.

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost]

People don't acknowledge Murray fucking HATED Harold Ramis. It has nothing to do with Murray being worn down enough or hated sequels. The guy doesn't give a fuck and only cameoed in fem busters because of the the threat of lawsuits.

It started when they had a lot of trouble on groundhog day where Ramis wanted it to be a comedy and Bill wanted it more moody and serious. Bill threw tantrums, came late and became impossible to work with. It got so bad Ramis grabbed Murray by the collar and shoved him against the wall. Murray can sting like that.

Even though Groundhog Day was pretty amazing, Murray refused to work with Ramis ever again. Ramis tried to repair the relationship many times, but Murray never responded and they didn't talk until Ramis was on his deathbed. It's not fair to call them enemies since Ramis always desired to repair his friendship.

Ghostbusters 3 was never going to happen because of this. Now that Ramis is dead, he goes.

It's hard for me to like Murray because of this. He was always a prima donna but being this much of a prick over a critical and cult classic is too much for me. Like you don't even try to bury the hatchet until the guy is literally dying? Because you had disagreements over a film and it turned intense? Shit happens all the time. It's really hard for me to find him likeable.

For me he's always been odd in his choice of films. I like him and most of his stuff well enough, but Murray seemed to hit that point where he cashed in on the comedy boom of the 80's and 90's and then just stopped.
He does odd films now and again, but I can't say what motivates him to do films anymore.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

For me he's always been odd in his choice of films. I like him and most of his stuff well enough, but Murray seemed to hit that point where he cashed in on the comedy boom of the 80's and 90's and then just stopped.
He does odd films now and again, but I can't say what motivates him to do films anymore.

I mean, he was in Space Jam...

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost]

I mean, he was in Space Jam...

It's a mystery. The only thing you could consistently bet on is if it's a Wes Anderson film, Murray will likely be in it.
Maybe that's Akroyd's secret weapon, Ghostbuster 3 directed by Wes Anderson.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

How about make this crossover:

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

Maybe they'll let them do it because the all-female Ghostbusters was a flop. Then again, with one member dead it reminds me of that time Dan also made a movie with a key star missing...when he made Blues Brothers 2000 years after John Belushi OD'd and died. It sucked.

Then again wasn't the Ghostbusters game on consoles (that's now out of print) also considered Ghostbusters 3?

The script used in the video game is gb3 that was initially planned to be filmed sometime in the early 90s as the cultural 80s thrashed around and died. It was altered and adapted for the video game surprisingly minimally, with the addition of some film ghotsts such as the librarian and Scalizi brothers as Easter eggs/tutorials to teach you how to bust ghosts.

Ackroyd never really got much of a chance to rewrite it, which is probably why it was actually good. Concepts like an all dead Gozerian Cult and architecture being important to the plot were explored in more detail in the game than they likely ever would have in a film.

 

[LN 910]

That's it! Here's a picture of Ernie Hudson bumming himself, are y'all happy now?

 

[Guts Gets Some]

I'm probably in the minority, but a Ghostbusters 3 should be close to what the sequel series Extreme Ghostbusters did.
Apart from the name, it was actually a really good show. That still holds up. Far better than the original cartoon, at least for me now.

It was exactly the premise everyone said they wanted from the reboot: the old handing the torch to new characters; and all the characters were interesting and ironically even filled a diversity quota (although I don't believe this was the show's agenda).
Hell, it was even the first Ghostbusters to actually have a female on the team, and she didn't suck because... gasp, she was an actual character and not just an agenda filling puppet.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Bill Murray's performance in the video game was terrible. He didn't even phone it in, more like smoke signaled or semaphored it in.

 

[drtoboggan]

Let it go, Aykroyd.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

It was exactly the premise everyone said they wanted from the reboot: the old handing the torch to new characters; and all the characters were interesting and ironically even filled a diversity quota (although I don't believe this was the show's agenda).
Hell, it was even the first Ghostbusters to actually have a female on the team

They clearly followed an agenda, they had a black dude, a chick, a dude in a wheelchair and whatever the fuck that wannabe Venkman was. But they did a good job with these characters (though it was getting ridiculous how mobile the guy in the wheelchair was).
Also, quick comment: While Jannine never was part of the Ghostbusters themselves, she did go out and kick some ass and bust some ghosts every now and then. In the movies, she was pretty amazing, too.
And what did Ghostbustettes give us? An eye-candy doofus. Is that how Paul Feig saw Jannine?

 

[BubbleButt]

Smooth, *COUGH*

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

They clearly followed an agenda, they had a black dude, a chick, a dude in a wheelchair and whatever the fuck that wannabe Venkman was. But they did a good job with these characters (though it was getting ridiculous how mobile the guy in the wheelchair was).
Also, quick comment: While Jannine never was part of the Ghostbusters themselves, she did go out and kick some ass and bust some ghosts every now and then. In the movies, she was pretty amazing, too.
And what did Ghostbustettes give us? An eye-candy doofus. Is that how Paul Feig saw Jannine?

I think it says something about Ghostbusters 2 that even the Nostaligia critic could fix it.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

They clearly followed an agenda, they had a black dude, a chick, a dude in a wheelchair and whatever the fuck that wannabe Venkman was. But they did a good job with these characters (though it was getting ridiculous how mobile the guy in the wheelchair was).
Also, quick comment: While Jannine never was part of the Ghostbusters themselves, she did go out and kick some ass and bust some ghosts every now and then. In the movies, she was pretty amazing, too.
And what did Ghostbustettes give us? An eye-candy doofus. Is that how Paul Feig saw Jannine?

Everything I've read says otherwise, especially in regard to Garrett. There's a clear attempt to have parallels to the original cast in the new characters, but I didn't see it as any diversity agenda.

Wish I could remember where I saw it, but essentially Garrett was originally conceived as the arrogant jock character, but he just didn't work like that; he was a boring character.
Suddenly, however, you put him in a wheelchair with that same personality and it not only layers him, but makes him more interesting and even likable as well.
And personally, I even thought it was awesome that someone in an action series was in a push wheelchair. You totally forget that he is at all. I've never seen that before.
And the mobility makes sense because he's still very fit and essentially an athlete, despite his disability. It's very clear from the first couple episodes that he's more-or-less a meathead.

As for the rest, such traits are superficial as best. Roland is black, sure, but he's more of a nerdy white guy in personality and it's generally a running joke that people assume he's wholly different than he is, simply due to his color (he's also got a bit of the :autism:, if I say so myself).
Eduardo is more snarky like Venkman and his only real Hispanic trait is he throws in some Spanish here and there, while Kylie being female almost doesn't matter at all in the long run. I feel like they did that just to have romantic tension on the team.

So, I'll politely disagree.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Everything I've read says otherwise, especially in regard to Garrett. There's a clear attempt to have parallels to the original cast in the new characters, but I didn't see it as any diversity agenda.

Wish I could remember where I saw it, but essentially Garrett was originally conceived as the tough jock character, but he was a boring character as that. But suddenly you put him in a wheelchair with that same personality and it layers him and makes him more interesting. And personally, I thought it was awesome that someone in an action series was in a push wheelchair. You totally even forget that he is. I've never seen that before.
The mobility is because he's still a fit athlete, despite his disability. It's very clear from the first couple episodes that he's essentially a meathead.

As for the rest, it's superficial as best. Roland is black, sure, but he's more of a nerdy white guy in personality, Eduardo is more snarky like Venkman and his only real Hispanic trait is he throws in some Spanish here and there, while Kylie being female almost doesn't matter at all. I feel like they did that just to have romantic tension on the team.

So, I'll politely disagree.

See, whatever they did, they did a good job, sinceit does allow for a discussion and I certainly see where you're coming from.
And given how the characters in that show are written, they aren't dominated by any superficial trait.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Dan wants to make Ghostbusters High:

Dan Aykroyd has written a Ghostbusters prequel called Ghostbusters High

Dan Aykroyd wants to bring us a lot more GHOSTBUSTERS.

www.joblo.com

DAN AYKROYD HAS WRITTEN A GHOSTBUSTERS PREQUEL CALLED GHOSTBUSTERS HIGH
11 hours ago by: Cody Hamman

Director Jason Reitman, son of GHOSTBUSTERS and GHOSTBUSTERS II director Ivan Reitman, will soon be going into production on a sequel to his father's films that is set to star Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, and Mckenna Grace as a family that has mysterious ties to the previous films. Speaking with 660 News, original GHOSTBUSTERS co-writer/co-star Dan Aykroyd, who will be serving as a producer on the new film, talked a bit about what the younger Reitman has in store for us - and where the GHOSTBUSTERS franchise might go in the future.
Aykroyd said that Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan have

written a beautiful script, I can’t say too much about it but it’s going to get made and hopefully there’ll be some familiar faces ... This just takes it to a new generation and a new direction that is so warm, heartfelt and indeed, quite scary when you confront some of the issues that are being discussed."

In previous interviews, Aykroyd has expressed displeasure with Paul Feig, director of the 2016 GHOSTBUSTERS reboot, and the fact that the budget of that film was out of control. Aykroyd shifts the blame from Feig to himself in this interview and praises the work that film's stars did, saying he should have kept a closer eye on the budget as a producer. Because the reboot only made $229 million worldwide on a budget of $144 million, the budget of Reitman's film will be much lower - "as little as we can spend".
Aykroyd has plans for more GHOSTBUSTERS projects beyond Reitman's film, and has even already written the script for a prequel that he calls GHOSTBUSTERS HIGH, which would center on teenage versions of the characters Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, and Peter Venkman (who were played by Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Bill Murray in the original films). The story would begin when

they meet in New Jersey in 1969 and we’re looking to do that as probably a glorified feature or pilot within the next maybe five years…. And it would lead to a television project and I thought of (Jason Reitman) immediately for that. It’s on his desk but that’s years away from the current project. But it’s a neat idea for a prequel. Imagine casting the three characters as teenagers!"

Aykroyd reiterates that GHOSTBUSTERS HIGH would be "way, way down" the line - we probably have to see how Reitman's movie is going to do first, and if there are going to be sequels to that one.
The idea for GHOSTBUSTERS HIGH goes back at least a year and a half, as Aykroyd mentioned it in an interview with CinemaBlend in late 2017. When asked if there was any chance we could someday see a live action GHOSTBUSTERS series on Netflix, Aykroyd replied,

Yes. Absolutely. Sure. Sure. I can see several possibilities there. You know? Take a cue from these guys in Stranger Things and maybe have the Ghostbusters in high school or something."

As it turns out, he really wants to pursue that idea.

 

[tangerine pigtails]

Dan wants to make Ghostbusters High:

Dan Aykroyd has written a Ghostbusters prequel called Ghostbusters High

Dan Aykroyd wants to bring us a lot more GHOSTBUSTERS.

www.joblo.com

Just leave it alone, man.