Amph Don't Cross The Streams! The Ghostbusters Franchise (Ghostbusters Afterlife)

I think it's time for them to just move forward with this thing. Not forward as in production, well I guess I mean that to, but forward as it just moving forward with the story.

In other words, a new group of Ghostbusters in a movie set in the same universe as the other movies. A reboot/sequel if you will. Stop waiting around for the old cast to get older. Have Aykroyd and Hudson return in the most minor of roles, have Potts return, and definitly pay Moranis anything he wants to return.

Have either one or two older actors play Ghostbusters to show that this thing is still going on, perhaps they were there when the old guys were still going. Then have 2 new younger actors who'll play new kids on the job.

My pick for a cast would be Woody Harrelson, Donald Glover, Emma Stone, and Danny Mcbride. Ok, the first 3 are set in stone for me. I can see anyone filling the 4th pick really. To tell the truth, Matthew McConaughey was my top pick, but then it would be True Dective reunion(not a bad thing). It's also a Zombieland reunion. Still MacConaughey has a lot of range, and I easly see him filling Murrays shoes......or.....

Have it remain the first 3 actors, then at the end we get our surprise 4th Ghostbuster, Murray. I'd get him to come back for a small role. I like the trope that the Ghostbusters end up in the Mayors office each film, and it's hard not to see it being natural progression for Peter Venkman to become Mayor of New York. They convince him to return with the notion that a Mayor with a low public rating, can suit up one last time and save New York just in time for re-election. A raise of the eyebrow later, and a quick cut to the exact scene with a now Older Venkman yelling out the car window,"Come on, lets see some lights," and then definitly have "Saving the Day," playing with police escort.


That is all...

Do feel free to add your own ideas for a possible GB 3.

 

No. I think they should just let it die. Reboot the cartoon and call it a day.

 

Why can't people just enjoy the 2 films that we have? Does there have to be a sequel many, many years later for every film franchise? Let it go, let it go.

 

I have to admit that I could see Woody Harrelson or Matthew McCoughany as Ghostbusters, but some how the idea of a Ghostbusters movie without Egon seems even harder to accept than a Ghostbusters movie without Venkman. And I think that Ray would be a better mayor than Venkman, as he's actually responsible.

 

the ghostbusters unleash an army of mostly jade, sapphire, and topaz robocops to do battle against the ghostly horde of ages, who have recently reappeared on earth after two thousand years of banishment to the plane of iron (and suffering).

 

Mayor Venkman? That's so ridiculous, it's awesome!

 

They battle a giant Ed Koch, and their pants fall down, helping to increase sales of Ghosrbusters underwear in foreign markets.

*anyone remember that episode of The Critic?*

 

Here's an idea: Stop trying to resurrect this franchise.

 

Lol. Regardless of my little idea, they will make another ghostbusters eventually. In fact I believe aykroyd said himself that it would probably be a new group of ghostbusters.

This is Hollywood, there is money to be made. Might as well play along.

 

When it's done, it will be a reboot.

 

It'll be directed by Judd Apatow with Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, and some black guy Apatow picked out of a book of headshots because he's too damned lazy to write anything good or do any casting aside from reusing the same cast he has used time and again.

And when this day comes, you will see a HUGE uptick in sales of pistols and single rounds of ammunition as Generation X collectively says "That's it, I'm done with humanity, goodbye."

 

Ghostbusters 3?!

Please... the thrilling misadventures of Bill Murray getting a reverse mortgage?

 

I vote for Emma Watson, Emma Stone, Emily Blunt, Emily Watson and Gwyneth Paltrow (who played Emma in 1996) as the New Ghostbustresses. Rated PG.

 

I think we should just rerelease the original with new CGI special effects.

 

I've had an idea for Ghostbusters 3 for a while but it isn't truly a Ghostbusters instalment but would be a fitting way to salute the franchise into retirement.

If you've seen the Seinfeld "reunion" on Curb Your Enthusiasm or Doctor Who's the Five-ish Doctors or even Batman's Return To The Batcave you'll know what i'm getting at. We're all too familiar with the constant failures for Ghostbusters 3 to get off the ground, it's spanned over a decade. It makes Duke Nukem Forever, Guns N Roses Chinese Democracy and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull look like half decade projects. Having previously confirmed they have writers from The Office on board, there already is an opportunity for great comedy.

What if Ghostbusters 3 was, instead of a direct sequel to GB 2 or a reboot, about the film that never got made (a mockumentary). That is, we have Murray, Aykroyd, Morantis, Hudson, Weaver and Potts (maybe even McNicholl) all coming back as themselves rather than their characters. The story could span the period from 1990 until now and it's a 90 minute comedy about this doomed project. With Bill Murray's eye rolling, Dan Aykroyd's passion, Ernie Hudson's "eh, whatever" attitude and of course, Morantis who is retired from acting, this could potentially be better than Blues Brothers 2000 (no, that's not hard).

In a way you could even include some of the late Harold Ramis with some stock footage but even bring a little humour to his recent passing. I can't remember exactly the sketch, but Monty Python did this with one of their cast members who died and they basically turned his passing into a comedy sketch concerning the treatment of his ashes. That sounds awkward, but it actually worked really well because it was so true to their left of centre, offbeat humour that they're known for and the fact that it was done with a lot of love. With Bill Murray on board, i'm sure we could get some affectionate laughs to have one last goodbye to the beloved Ramis while being absolutely respectful to his legacy in the film industry.

So, essentially, Ghostbusters 3 is in fact the movie about the movie that never was because it ironically never was.

In the meantime, where the hell is the GB2 blu-ray?!

 

To truly resemble the process, Bill Murray is off screen for the entire movie. But then as a post-credits scene, is shown in his mansion, pretending to pal around with Slimer, drink Ecto-cooler, and talk to a motionless painting of Vigo.

 

Dear OP,

That idea is so terrible, you should be working in Hollywood.

 

Here's an idea:

15 years ago(or midway between when the 3 is released and 2), a third cataclysmic event was prevented by the Ghostbusters, only this time, there are massive casualties as a result of Egon's pack imploding--Dr. Spengler is among the dead. Finally, the Federal Government gets involved, and confiscates all of the Ghostbusters' equipment, with some skeevy William Atherton type in charge of a new paranornal division of the government.

With a dead friend and no more company, Stantz has a mental breakdown, and lives a hermetic existence locked up in his dingy apartment, rambling about lizard people infiltrating the government and UFOs.

In the '90s, Venkman had a mildly successful "Unsolved Mysteries" type show with a paranormal twist, riding the Ghostbusters' controversial 15 minutes of fame, but the show is cancelled when, a few seasons in, it begins resorting to fabricated mysteries. He later attempts to get a Ghost Hunters type reality show going, but quickly loses funding when, again, he resorts to fabricated hauntings. At the beginning of the movie, his current whereabouts are unknown.

Zeddmore is off believing in whatever the person paying him wants him to.

The new "Ghostbusters" are an elite, black ops team of ghost hunters working for the government, capturing the ghosts and using their ghost power as a source of green, renewable energy. Only this time, now, the ghosts are totally corporeal, and require a lot of buttkicking instead of this silly proton pack wrangling. Probably the team consists of The Rock, Kate Beckinsale, Jamie Foxx, and Mark Wahlberg as the comic relief.

But wait, their skeevy Atherton Boss is actually a ghost himself, and is using the ectoplasm to make himself stronger, and also everyone else involved in the department are secretly ghosts also eating the other ghosts for energy, and they will soon take over the whole world. When the Ghostbusters discover this, they are labelled traitors, and hunted as fugitives. They go underground, and are forced to look up the old Ghostbusters to help combat this new ghost problem.

Afterwards Venkman is elected President and Stantz becomes his new Secretary of Parastate, who hunt down the lizard people and uncover UFOs.

 

Spider-Fan

 

Nah, not even that. Just cut to him occasionally in the film where Dan calls him asking if he has read the script and you just see Bill on the golf course going something like, "oh yeah...definitely." To show how half arsed he is about it, you could even have precisely the same stock footage of Bill saying precisely the same thing to Dan despite Dan's dialogue being different with every call given how frustrated his "character" would be with Bill's nonchalance.

 

Ghostbusters died with Harold Ramis. End of story.

 

Interesting enough the zombieland director is being looked at to direct this movie that is dead because Harold ramis died.

 

You misunderstand me. Any hope of the franchise having potential died with Harold Ramis. Sony is desperate for a hit so they are milking their well of hits. Same reason they keep pulling Men In Black back out for more and have plans to continue to expand Spider-Man to absurd levels. But the lightning in a bottle that was the original film has long since dissipated. Ramis is gone, Reitman and Murray have little to no interest. Aykroyd is...well nuts. It's time to let this go.

And Zombieland was incoherent and dull, relying too heavily on tropes rather than trying to tell a story.

 

Is the Ghostbusters franchise a hit, though? The reason 3 never got approved in the first place is because 2 failed so miserably.I suppose that, since then, it has picked up a lot of nostolgic steam, but otherwise, as far as franchises go, overall, Ghostbusters is still fairly "cult".

 

Sony considers it one of it's three biggest assets and the first film is still one of the most popular comedies in history (and was for a long time the highest grossing comedy of all time). As far as they are concerned it's something worth milking.