Ivan Reitman spoke to MTV and revealed that he will indeed return to direct Ghostbusters 3. Reitman directed the original and its sequel. In the last decade he’s only directed two films, Evolution and My Super Ex-Girlfriend, so take that as you will. There’s still not really much known about the planned story, though it will involve the original cast and a new generation of Ghostbusters. Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky are writing the script and are working on their second draft. For what it’s worth their first feature film work was Year One, which was fairly unanimously hated, although a lot of that seems to stem from Jack Black and Michael Cera playing their standard roles. Writing for that endgame can’t be too fruitful. Anyway, they’ve also done great work on The Office, so who knows. With established characters – characters, mind you, not just actors in costumes – maybe they can pull off something great. We know Harold Ramis has been keeping watch over things, so that’s another positive. We’ll see. I’m pretty skeptical that this franchise needs revisiting, although I’ll be damned if I wouldn’t absolutely love a great sequel.
Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson are expected to reprise their roles. Sigourney Weaver’s involvement isn’t quite firmed up. In my opinion, it’d be pretty sweet if this movie managed to get Rick Moranis out of retirement, but who knows. Reitman is hoping to shoot the film this year, leading to a likely 2011 release.
