Ghostbusters 3: Hellbent

From IGN:
May 16, 2006 - In a report attributed to InFocus Magazine, and picked up by various outlets including Hollywood.com, actor-filmmaker Harold Ramis offered up some details on the long-in-development sequel, Ghostbusters 3: Hellbent. He even suggested who might take over as the star of the franchise since Bill Murray refuses to.

Ramis reportedly wants franchise vets Dan Aykroyd and Rick Moranis to reprise their respective roles in the sequel, which the report claims will be called Ghostbusters in Hell, but he has his eye on A-lister Ben Stiller to star as a new Ghostbuster.

The script, written by Aykroyd, is said to feature a hell that looks alot like New York City. The Ghostbusters are able to be transported into hell via a portal in a New York warehouse.

"What Danny had originally conceived was sending us to a special-effects hell, a netherworld full of phenomenal visual environments and boiling pits," Ramis revealed. "But what works so well about the first two (films) is the mundane-ness of it all. So my notion was that hell exists in the same place as our consensus reality, but it's like a film shutter. It's the darkness between the 24 frames.

Ramis continued, "So we create a device to do it, and it's in a warehouse in Brooklyn. When we step out of the chamber, it looks just like New York, but it's hell. Everything's grid-locked; no cars are moving and all the drivers are swearing at each other in different foreign languages. No two people speak the same language. It's all the worst things about modern urban life, just magnified."

Well good thing is that Ramis and Aykroyd are invovled, I dunno if Stiller would make a good Ghosbuster but I can kinda see it. I have been waiting for another Ghostbusters for years so I'm excited. :biggrin:

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Without Bill Murray, I just don't see this film being Ghostbusters. The main thing that was enjoyable about the films was the interplay between Murray's cynicism, Aykroyd's enthusiasm, and Ramis' phlegmatic and dispassionate nature.

Ghostbusters II wasn't even half as good as Ghostbusters anyway. Why lie?

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I love those movies but I'm not sure it would work. It's been in developement hell for a llllooooooonnnggggg time. There were two concepts during the 1990s; one, Bill Murray's character died and came back as a ghost to help the gang and two, new recruits were to come in the form of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock and Chris Farley, which would've rocked.

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Eh, let the franchise lie. Without Peter Venkman, why bother?

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Even if they get Venkman back, its only for a cameo at the end ... Dans script has been knocking around for over six years now, and all the studios passed on it due to being "too expensive" to film.

Strange that this is being reported now, they have no new information that wasn't released back in '99-2000 ...

I was speaking idiomatically.

I have to agree with LeHah on this one. I meant, probably like 10 years ago a Ghostbusters 3 would have been cool, but it's been almost 20 years since 2 and I really don't want to see Extreme Ghostbusters as a movie. :\ Besides I don't know if the same humor can be pulled off or not.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I guess it's too bad that the revival of old intellectual property is so vogue right now

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Originally Posted by LeHah

Eh, let the franchise lie. Without Peter Venkman, why bother?

Quoted for rampant truth.

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I don't know if the newer generation would even remember the Ghostbusters' series. I enjoyed it when I was very little, but it's been a heck of a long time between sequels. I didn't even know that Rick Moranis was still acting. I don't think I've heard from Dan Aykroyd for a long while. However, it would be interesting to see Ben Stein in the film, but I could just imagine him being all monotonal:

"Ah. A ghost. Let us make a run for it." I do enjoy that voice, especially in those Visine commercials and on Fairly Oddparents.

However, if they would bring Chris Rock into the film, it would be hilarious to see his reaction to the ghosts. Any word if they are bringing back Ernie Hudson or are they going to replace him?

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Fuck the new generation, I want a new Ghostbusters movie =p

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That kind of stupid slapstick humour was SORT OF used in Evolution.
I fucking love Evolution.

Ghostbusters 2 sucked ass. It became less about the play between the characters and more the moral dilemma of the community mentality of New York.

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And it wouldn't be Ghostbusters without Bill Murray, but I'm interested to see how this will turn out, if it's made.

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Sliiiiiime.

Yeah, I don't get why anyone would want to bring back Ghostbusters. It's so 80s. Also, I'd be interested to see a new take on the themesong. They should hire some pop artist to re-record it.

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Run DMC already did that with the 2nd movie =p

I was speaking idiomatically.

Dubious. This is the same information we heard a long while back, complete with the Ben Stiller speculation.

I really think this ship has sailed. Sequels are made for the people who saw the first movies, and how many of those people really care about a Ghostbusters 3 anymore?

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Eh, I don't like this idea.

The only conceivably good thing about this is that it may temporarily revitalize the franchise and bring The Real Ghostbusters to DVD.

And anyway, what happened to Ramis not wantind to do it if Murray wasn't on board? That was the talk a couple of years ago at least.

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Ghostbusters was a true 80's property. The 80's films just had a different "feel" to them. You could pull off something like Ghostbusters that was completely unrealistic, funny, yet also real in a sense as well. For example, the things that are happening could be scary, yet the actor's reaction to them was hilarious. Nowadays that sort of thing might seem "disjointed" but it worked back then. That's why I really miss the 80's in a sense - you just can't go around having any more A-Teams, or Knight-Riders, or Fall Guys, or crazy over-the-top films...

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Perhaps that's why Evolution didn't do too well in theatres?

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I doubt it is going to work. As speculative mentioned, Ghostbusters is way too 80s, and it should stay that way. Besides, you can't go wrong with Stay Puft:



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I also think that this movie is going to bomb big time because of that fact that the original cast doesn't want to get together. The comedic timing just will not be there anymore

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Originally Posted by galen

And anyway, what happened to Ramis not wantind to do it if Murray wasn't on board? That was the talk a couple of years ago at least.

Someone waved a wad of bills under his nose? That's usually all it takes to make an actor get involved in a project he didn't want to do.

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