The New Ghostbusters - Part 10

[Steyin]

Please. Murray was open to it if the script was good, and all the script drafts sucked. He wasn't going to do GB3 unless it was worth it and he said that countless times. If they ended up making it just for the sake of making it and it turned out bad, fans would be even angrier than they are about GB2, and even angrier than they are now about the fact that GB3 didn't happen.

Murray was doing everybody a favor. We're better off. Blame the script writers, not Murray. If they had produced a quality product on par with GB1 instead of GB2, Murray would've been interested. Guaranteed.

I for one enjoy GB2 more than 1, but oh well. I still feel any of those ideas were probably better than this film.

 

[chaseter]

Murray had no issues starring in Rock the Kasbah.

 

[Rocketman]

I for one enjoy GB2 more than 1, but oh well. I still feel any of those ideas were probably better than this film.

For the record, I agree with you on GB2.

I'm looking at it from the typical fanboys' perspective, who can never be happy.

Dan Aykroyd had a GB3 script about the Busters traveling to Hell to prevent Armageddon from Satan's minions, and it sounded cool... but there's no way anyone would've been on board (except for weirdos like me).

 

[Victarion]

Where can I read this treatment?

 

[Rocketman]

Where can I read this treatment?

I don't think it ever leaked in full, but I there's an interview where Aykroyd describes it better than I did.

 

[Hunter Rider]

According to box office mojo, the domestic total is 86 million and the foreign box office is 36 million.

It's got an uphill battle to break even then.

 

[bluejake01]

Where can I read this treatment?

Play the Ghostbusters video game. It uses many of Dan Aykroyd's ideas for GB3 and has the original cast. Great game, and a great experience.

 

[OcStat]

Actually, there was an interview just the other day where they said they did not use elements from that script for the game. Though it is supposed to be "Ghostbusters 3" (and was even titled during one some of development) it is a totally original script, by the developers, with input from the original crew.

There's a link in the Ghostbusters thread in the video game sub forum.

Now that I think about it, that is more or less the plot from the Ghostbusters Genesis game... The last level a hole in NYC opens up that leads to the gates of Hell.

I don't know if that would have really would have worked as a movie, though I guess it is the highest stakes imaginable for the Ghostbusters. Maybe a smaller conflict would have worked for the third film...

 

[chamber-music]

I think they'll keep pressing forward with MIB 23. Which I still think is a stupid idea beyond belief.

SONY is just running around like a chicken with it's head cut off

They are desperate for more bankable franchises.

They are probably losing the Bond partnership rights. They had to pair up with Marvel for Spider-Man and throw money at RDJ to appear in the new movie for a boost.

Screen Gems subsidiary which Sony owns can't spit out Underworld and Resident Evil movies forever either.

They are rolling the dice on MIB, Jump Street and Ghostbusters.

Sony paired up with Valiant for a five picture deal to adapt their comic universe to the movies but who knows how that will turn out.

 

[GuestStar2004]

Men in black meets ghostbusters!

it will happen!

 

[Lord]

Men in black meets ghostbusters!

it will happen!

That doesn't sound bad to be honest, as long as they can get Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.

 

[MadVillainy]

Lord and Miller arent even returning for MIB 23 (which is a big mark against the movie to me)
I doubt they'd do Ghostbusters MIB, although that crossover does sound better

 

[psylockolussus]

Lord and Miller arent even returning for MIB 23 (which is a big mark against the movie to me)
I doubt they'd do Ghostbusters MIB, although that crossover does sound better

It does.

I have no interest watching the Jump Street movies. So I'm just half curious about seeing this MIB 23 movie.

 

[Lord]

Isn't part of the reason of them not doing MIB 23 due to them being focused on Han Solo? After that, they might jump at the oportunity of a Ghostbusters film. A bit of wishful thinking, but then again, their directing choices can also get quite random.

 

[Rocketman]

Men in black meets ghostbusters!

it will happen!

That's actually something that I could totally get behind. And it makes more sense than crossing with 21 Jump Street.

MIB seems like a perfect fit with Ghostbusters... Aliens vs. Ghosts, government (MIB) vs. small business (GB).

 

[JangoNate]

If Sony did go forward with a GB sequel, in whatever form, I'm sure it might be a little easier to get a director this time. Now you're not following a 27 year hiatus and a beloved classic. You're simply following Feig's attempt which, though received well critically didn't completely wow the world. Maybe that takes off some pressure.

Or, they could see the jackholes that made production a living hell and go...um, no.

 

[JangoNate]

That's actually something that I could totally get behind. And it makes more sense than crossing with 21 Jump Street.

MIB seems like a perfect fit with Ghostbusters... Aliens vs. Ghosts, government (MIB) vs. small business (GB).

Especially after the recent film talked about "the cat being put back in the bag" in the past. It definitely works better than 21 Jump Street.

I never thought MIB 23 could happen. Who knows?! Surprise announcement coming?

 

[Gold Samurai]

According to box office mojo, the domestic total is 86 million and the foreign box office is 36 million.

Star Trek Beyond was #1 this weekend at the boxoffice

The Secret Life of Pets was #2

Lights out was #3

Ghostbusters was #4


Too bad. The movie will never reach #1 at the box office now. It's just going to go down. It's debut weekend it was 2nd place

 

[Teelie]

Just read that the Ghostbuster toys were selling extremely well and I see people still want to try and **** all over it because they dislike the movie for whatever reason.

No matter how *well this movie does there is always someone trying to tear it down because they can't accept being wrong.


* well does not mean it is a perfect movie that everyone loves and is going to make a billion dollars. It does however mean it will justify a sequel.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Men in black meets ghostbusters!

it will happen!

It probably will now. Or worse, don't be surprised if this cast shows up in that MIB/Jump Street crossover.

To quote Martin Hart, just when I thought Sony couldn't raise the bar they keep doing it. They are the Michael Jordan of being a**holes.

 

[Zero_Effect]

Just read that the Ghostbuster toys were selling extremely well and I see people still want to try and **** all over it because they dislike the movie for whatever reason.

No matter how *well this movie does there is always someone trying to tear it down because they can't accept being wrong.


* well does not mean it is a perfect movie that everyone loves and is going to make a billion dollars. It does however mean it will justify a sequel.

Are they?

 

[Kanon]

I'm pretty open minded about Hollywood's wacky projects, and I can't bring myself to entertain the idea of a MIB crossover. I can't imagine how general audiences would react to such an announcement.

 

[JtheDreamer]

Just read that the Ghostbuster toys were selling extremely well and I see people still want to try and **** all over it because they dislike the movie for whatever reason.

No matter how *well this movie does there is always someone trying to tear it down because they can't accept being wrong.


* well does not mean it is a perfect movie that everyone loves and is going to make a billion dollars. It does however mean it will justify a sequel.

This just in .....

In three weeks it has only mustered $122 million worldwide, with a budget of $144 million (not including marketing). It's not getting a sequel.

WOM should've saved this movie if it was any good - but that's clearly not the case. It's an average film and something nobody was beating down Sony's door for. It never should have been made and in the process entangled itself in a messy dialogue about misogyny.

 

[MadVillainy]

I really am still very confused about people's logic on why this will get a sequel

 

[Kanon]

I really am still very confused about people's logic on why this will get a sequel

Basically, Sony is desperate for a franchise, so they might give a chance even to a flop like GB2016

It's hard to know what's opn the mind of executives, to be fair. I wouldn't burn my money on a sequel to this, but who knows... I know for a fact that there are movies that opened bigger and never got sequels, but I haven't checked the history of such underperformers successfully getting sequels