Update:
Dan Akroyd confirmed the Ghostbusters 3 movie. Here's his statement 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."
Recent news is now reporting that Paul Feig, director of 'Bridesmaids' and 'The Heat' is the front-runner of the next live-action Ghostbusters installment. Feig, known for the last few years has made crowd pleasing comedies that happen to star women - and, as it turns out, Sony/Columbia will apparently allow him to keep on doing just that.
THR are claiming that the most recent script draft for the Ghostbusters reboot (penned by Men in Black 3 writer Etan Cohen) movie will be "focusing on female Ghostbusters." In the past, such female talents have reportedly been tapped on participating in the project namely Anna Faris of the Scary Movie series and Emma Stone (Amazing Spiderman), who is rumored to have declined a Ghostbusters 3 offer last year.
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