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Confirmed: Ivan Reitman directing Ghostbusters 3

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The script is written, and now there’s a confirmed director: Ivan Reitman will be helming Ghostbusters 3 after all…

Published on Jan 14, 2010

There's been some speculation over who would be sitting in the director's chair for the third instalment in the Ghostbusters franchise, given that the director of the first two films, Ivan Reitman, was showing little interest. And now the search for a director for the film is over. The man who will be calling the shots? Mr Ivan Reitman.

Reitman was asked outright at the MTV Movies Blog whether he'd be directing Ghostbusters 3, and simply said "Yes". The same story reveals that the screenplay to the film, penned by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg (who penned, er, Year One), has now been completed too.

The film is due in 2011, and Reitman is planning - as you might expect - to get shooting this year. He also avoided commenting on the story hints that Sigourney Weaver dropped last month noting that "there's some very cool things in the new draft".

Add Ghostbusters 3, then, to the already-crammed summer schedules for 2011. And a note to all concerned: watch Crystal Skull if you get a chance. If you're going to review a franchise two decades on, there are important lessons to be learnt within that film...

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Re: Confirmed: Ivan Reitman directing Ghostbusters 3
Posted By Modestgaz 1 January 14, 2010 10:12:44 AM

Why not just make another goonies film and piss all over my childhood. I relly want this to be good. I hope they know what their doing and not looking for one last big pay day.

Re: Confirmed: Ivan Reitman directing Ghostbusters 3
Posted By amalthea1983 1 January 14, 2010 12:17:48 PM

here here!

Re: Confirmed: Ivan Reitman directing Ghostbusters 3
Posted By faster1974 1 January 14, 2010 03:05:53 PM

I think the main rule in reviving an old franchise is "Don't let George Lucas near it". As such, I've got high hopes about this.

Re: Confirmed: Ivan Reitman directing Ghostbusters 3
Posted By benheck 1 January 14, 2010 04:38:01 PM

Not that I needed any more proof, but this is the nail in the coffin for G3 sucking. Reitman hasn't made a successful movie in what, 17 years and I don't need to see Year One to know that it sucks. Jason Reitman would have been awesome, but unlike his dad is successful enough not to stoop to slumming.

Re: Confirmed: Ivan Reitman directing Ghostbusters 3
Posted By mugwump 1 January 14, 2010 10:36:20 PM

they'll probably do this with a load of new 'busters. but it would be way funnier if they had all the old gang come out of retirement

Re: Confirmed: Ivan Reitman directing Ghostbusters 3
Posted By Carbontoe 1 January 15, 2010 08:33:56 AM

Benheck, you took the exact words out of my mouth!

Re: Confirmed: Ivan Reitman directing Ghostbusters 3
Posted By clementine 1 January 15, 2010 02:03:53 PM

Year 1 writers = worried ,very worried......

Re: Confirmed: Ivan Reitman directing Ghostbusters 3
Posted By kivgeek 1 January 17, 2010 06:37:02 PM

yeah aviod the frige
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