Posted on 09/27/2008 9:20:42 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
It’s starting to feel like the ’80s all over again as major studios set their sights on such franchises as Voltron, Poltergeist and Ghostbusters. Daily Variety reports that Columbia Pictures has tapped Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, co-exec producers of the hit NBC comedy The Office, to pen a new installment in the Ghostbusters saga. The Emmy-nominated writers also have a spec script, Bad Teacher, set up at the studio.
While most studios are hot to remake hit films with younger casts that appeal to teen audiences, Columbia is reportedly planning to bring back original ghoul catchers Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson. The studio hasn’t made any official announcement of the project, but the rumors that have been circulating around the web seem to panning out. Eisenberg and Stupnitsky recently wrote a comedy titled Year One, which Ramis directed.
Until Men in Black and Spider-Man came along Ghostbusters was Columbia's highest-grossing film ever. Written by Ramis and Aykroyd, the film spawned a sequel, which the duo also penned. A third film was in the works several years ago but derailed when the stars demanded big chunks of the film’s gross.
The first Ghostbusters film was noted for its visual effects work, which involved puppetry, rubber suits and stop-motion animation by William Randall Cook, who went on to win Oscars for his CG creatures in the Lord of the Rings films. Fans can expect an emphasis on computer-generated effects as the Ghostbusters return to rid the 21st Century of menacing spirits.
It was announced last year that Sony Pictures and Vivendi Games had teamed up to develop a Ghostbusters game that will feature the voices and likenesses of all four stars of the popular films from the 1980s. Annie Potts, Brian Doyle Murray and William Atherton are also set to reprise their supporting in the films for the game, which will reportedly take place in the early ’90s, picking up where 1989’s Ghostbusters II left off. Aykroyd and Ramis are reportedly writing the story and taking an active role in the development process. At last reporting, the game was expected to be released under Vivendi's Sierra label this fall.
That sounds interesting.
Esp using the original cast.
I like the geeky nieghbor guy.
Wonder how they will write in the baby now adult and if the parents are married/divorced or what.
What is more amazing is that all the main charactor actors are still alive.
The same people in LA who are so completely bankrupt when it comes to creative ideas that they are remaking movies from the 80s (Poltergeist, Ghostbusters, et cetera) and TV shows from the 60s and 70s want to tell us who to vote for because they know best.
It makes sense as well;
You'd expect an old folk's home to me haunted.
You mean they're going to wipe out the Democrat Party?
Yeah I can also see a new Ghostbuster slot machine coming to all the Indian Casinos.
Indiana Jones and Star Wars did.
Even Howie Mandels Deal or no Deal slots came out.
Oh yeah the our state Lottery will have Ghostbuster scrach offs.
I wonder if that and selling Ghostbuster stuff in the local Wal Mart will be the money making aspect of the movie.
Dogs and cats
living together
MASS HYSTERIA!
Perhaps Ghostbusters are working with this group! :0)
Working for a rat free D.C.
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - They are among the District of Columbia’s most habitual offenders, indiscriminate thieves and vandals who plague fancy neighborhoods and slums with equal insolence.They are rats...
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The District Department of Health officials now say they have had enough. They have declared war on rats. Under an initiative called “Rat Free DC,” officials are setting up a “community strike team” made up of staffers from the departments of Health and Public Works. The team is charged with responding to complaints and developing plans of attack. The program will target both business and residential areas, beginning with Dupont Circle, Adams Morgan and U Street in Northwest before branching out to other areas, said Gerard Brown, program manager of the DOH’s Rodent and Vector Control Division.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czYz76tpUfc
The big money is in candy dispensers on the check out counter at 7-11.
“It’s true, Your Honor. This man has no dick.”
Maybe there is something to RAT control.
You forgot "human sacrifice"...
Obama and Banned Parenthood didn't...
This is going to be bad. Ghostbusters is a classic.
Janine Melnitz: Do you want some coffee, Mr. Tulley?
Louis: [to Egon] Do I?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Yes, have some.
Louis: [to Janine] Yes, have some.
Ray, when someone asks if you’re a god, you say yes!”
“That’s a big twinkie.”
LMAO
“So be good for goodness sakes whoa-ohhhhh...”
That's a good one. Now how many of actors of the Poltergeist series are still alive?
“...they are remaking movies from the 80s (Poltergeist...)...”
THEY’RE BA-ACK!!!
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