Director Paul Feig spoke with EW about the upcoming reboot and his vision of an all-female Ghostbusters team (via Screen Rant):
"I had lunch with [Sony Pictures co-chairman] Amy Pascal when I got back to town. She was just saying, gosh, nobody wants to do ['Ghostbusters 3'] I said, yeah, it's really hard to take that on, especially since it's 25 years later. How do you come back into a world that's had these ghosts and all this? It just felt too difficult. How do you do it and not screw it up?
But then it was bugging me for the next few days because 'Ghostbusters' is such a great thing and everybody knows it, and it's such a great world. It's a shame to just let this thing sit there. I want to see another one. My favorite thing to do is work with funny women. I was like, what if it was an all-female cast? If they were all women? Suddenly, my mind kind of exploded: that would be really fun. And then I thought, well, what if we just make it new? It's not coming into the world that existed before. It's always hard if the world has gone through this big ghost attack, how do you do it again? I wanted to come into our world where there's talk of ghosts but they're not really credible, and so what would happen in our world if this happened today'"
Dan Akroyd made a statement about the Ghostbusters 3 movie (via Screen Rant):
"My whole thinking on Ghostbusters now is it's beyond just a sequel, a prequel, another movie, another TV Show. I'm thinking now, what does the whole brand mean to Sony? What's Pixar and Star Wars mean to Disney? What does Marvel mean to Fox? Everybody, all of us on the team there now, the executives, the creatives, myself, Ivan (Reitman), we're thinking more in terms of what do we build this thing into in the next ten years? Just not another movie or another TV show, but what's the totality of it? What's the whole mythology from the beginning of their lives to the end of their lives? Ghostbusters at 9-years-old, Ghostbusters in high school."
Sony/Columbia has been pushing Ghostbusters 3 to begin filming in early 2015. Filmakers Chris Miller and Phil Lord (22 Jump Street) have confirmed that they have been approached to direct the film but declined the offer. Ruben Fleischer has also been tapped after Ghostbusters I & II director Ivan Reitman formally stepped down. Reitman remains on board to help shape a new script, taking over duties as a producer.
He talks of his involvement in the upcoming project and why he passed up on the director's chair via SuperHeroHype:
"I am very involved. I'm a producer of the film. I wasn't giving it all up. I suddenly felt that 'Ghostbusters' didn't necessarily need me as a director, at least I didn't need to direct 'Ghostbusters,' let me put it that way. Having done the other two and with the passing of Harold and with Bill Murray seeming disinterested in being in it, I thought it was better for me just to produce it and to make sure we're going to have the quality and style of what is appropriate for another version of that film. But the franchise could benefit from somebody else's point of view. I've done it twice before and it will be great to get somebody else to lend a hand as well."
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