Ghostbusters Reboot/3

CONFIRMED, B****ES! What do you guys think? Really excited for the "star hilarious women" part. An all-female Ghostbusters team would be awesome!

We may be the only website excited for this.

I'm serious about this. Every site I've seen this announced for has every single commenter already writing the movie off.

edited 8th Oct '14 5:50:37 PM by maxwellelvis

All female team, huh?

I'm now more skeptical then simply confused.

It'll probably either be crap, screwed by marketing, or both.

If they are guided by the benevolent ghost of Harold Ramis, then I'm sold.

I'm not exactly excited, but a complete reboot and genderswap sounds a hell of a lot more interesting than the earlier plans for just another installment of the original story. And, for that matter, more interesting than a non-genderswap reboot. The only good reasons to remake a story are to take it in a very different direction, or to fix something that was wrong with the original (and the latter isn't viable here because too many people think the original doesn't need to be fixed).

edited 8th Oct '14 5:52:05 PM by MetaFour

I'm all up for it if the team is made of Janine, Kylie, Dana and Melanie Ortiz.

I'm skeptical if only because it's a reboot. Something like a team of four ladies resurrecting the Ghostbusters name in the modern day? Sure, I'd be down for that.

But a complete reboot? Ehh...

To be honest, I think Ghostbusters is a prime candidate for being rebooted. As long as you can get the right cast it can be set at anytime, you can always do new stories with the concept and with Bill Murray unwilling to return, Rick Moranis retired, and the death Harold Ramis, it makes more sense to start a new than try for a sequel. If I'm being completely honest, I'd prefer that we get a new animated series instead, but Ghostbusters is won of those series that I'm always open to new media for (the Adams Family, Batman, and the X-men are also like that for).

I'm down with this. I like it. Now just hope it will be good.

I'm a little apprehensive of the "all-female" angle because that seems gimmicky rather than natural, but otherwise I am supportive of a reboot. Apparently Bill Murray never signed on to the sequel because he didn't see the value in a bunch of jokes about old men still trying to be Ghostbusters, which is what the script was heading towards.

While the original is an absolute classic, the premise is just so juicy that there are completely valid other directions you can take it. Kind of like the Robocop reboot, saying it is perfect and has no more story to tell is actually insulting the original instead of placing it on a pedestal.

I wonder if that means he'd be willing to show up as like a mentor character or predecessor in the new script, sort of a The Extreme Ghostbusters kind of thing (it's what I'm assuming Dan Aykroyd might do).

Kind of like how Jackie Chan supposedly retired from action intensive roles, but didn't have so much of a problem playing less-actiony roles in action movies.

Though I hope they can do a better job than the Robocop reboot.

Crosses fingers for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

Before: Blue collar schlubs doing blue collar schlub stuff... with ghosts. Now: WACKY WOMEN BEING WACKY!!!!!!!!!!

Ugh. Of all the Ghostbusters 3 premises out there, this is the one that gets greenlit.

edited 14th Oct '14 5:18:56 PM by Bonerfart

I'm so glad you know the script before any actual details have been revealed. Share with us your psychic powers.

Couldn't the wacky women be blue-collar schlubs too?

Technically wasn't everyone other than Winston an academic?

I think most of them were university professors. There's a wikipedia page out there somewhere that should solve that question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters

The article says that they lost their jobs at Columbia University, and I would take it to mean that they were indeed on the faculty, given their status as parapsychologists rather than janitors or cooks.

Winston's entire character was basically being the blue collar contrast to the more scientific minded original three. Venkman even clarified his doctorates to Peck. The only blue-collar elements is in the fact they turn it into a private for-profit venture, but business owner straddles the line between blue collar and white collar.

Skeptical to say the least. I don't really feel like it needs an update.

What's the rationale behind the all-female cast? Like was mentioned it doesn't seem like it's a natural choice, more just sort of shoved in there for its own sake. Might work, might not.

At least we know it won't be pointlessly Darker and Edgier if they're gonna stick with comedian actors.

I activate the Judgement Reservation trap card!!! (I've been watching too much Yugioh -_-)

An all-female reboot is probably the best possible route they could take with this. "Ghostbusters 3" was never going to happen and it was never going to be good anyway, and a standard reboot would probably turn out underwhelming. A distaff counterpart to the original has the best chance of revisiting the same territory without coming across as stale or redundant.

The only thing is whether Paul Feig can do justice to the idea. Bridesmaids was terrific, but The Heat was kinda meh, and the writer for the latter is working on the reboot's script with Feig.

I'm of the opinion that Ghostbusters doesn't need a reboot. You can make a sequel with an all-new cast just by setting it in a different city and saying they franchised, like they were doing at the end of the game. Cincinnati Ghostbusters. Chicago Ghostbusters. Philadelphia Ghostbusters. L.A. Ghostbusters.

Hell, they've already subtly canonized the Denver Ghostbusters. It's a premise that doesn't necessarily need the same characters to work.

edited 15th Oct '14 8:11:49 AM by TobiasDrake

Gillian Anderson keen for role in Ghostbusters 3.

I'm ok with this, if she gets the role.

edited 15th Oct '14 1:15:00 PM by Quag15

I'll be interested to see where this goes. I watch and wait.

"Are you a God?"

"...No. I'm a goddess!"

"Then die!"

Fem!Winston: "If someone asks if you're a god, don't correct for gender damnit!"