UPDATED: Dan Aykroyd talks Ghostbusters 3

The Los Angeles Times recently caught up with Dan Aykroyd who confirmed that Ghostbusters 3 is in development at Columbia Pictures and may start filming in the winter:

Aykroyd said Sigourney Weaver is on board now, as are the original squad ofectoplasmic specialists -- Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson. Murray's presence was the pivot point in making a third film happen.

"We could be in production by winter."

The script is by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, the writing team behind the upcoming Jack Black/Michael Cera movie Year One (directed by Ramis), and Aykroyd is enthused about its premise of a new generation of Ghostbusters taking over the duties of the aging team.

Aykroyd said he wishes Ivan Reitman would return to direct the third film in the
series but that he's "too busy as a mega-producer" to take it on; his second
choice is Ramis, who, of course, co-wrote the first two Ghostbusters films with
Aykroyd and has numerous directing credits, most notably Groundhog Day and
Analyze This. "He has a lot of things going on, but it would be wonderful to see
him do it."

The details of story are still in play, but Aykroyd said he's hoping for a five-member "new generation" team with several female members. "I'd like it to be a passing-of-the-torch movie. Let's revisit the old characters briefly and happily and have them there as family but let's pass it on to a new generation."

He then mentions Alyssa Milano (who provided a voice for the upcoming video game) and Eliza Dushku as potential options. Nothing concrete about those two, but I could see Dusku as a Ghostbuster.

UPDATE: The two actresses Dan mentions quickly got onto this and had this mini-conversation on Twitter.

Alyssa Milano: Can't speak for @ElizaPatricia (Hi, pretty lady)but this is the first I'm hearing of Ghostbusters 3. Did the VO in the game tho.

Eliza Dushku: Ghost-rumor-buster in a big way @Alyssa_milano (hey girlene) it's nuthin' I know of.

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Year One - TV Spot for Harold Ramis' new comedy

TV spot that introduces Zed (Jack Black) as the hunter and Oh (Michael Cera) as the gatherer.

Year One is due out on 19th June.

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Year One - International Trailer

For Zed and Oh, life was tough. Zed was a hunter. Oh was a gatherer. And together they were destined for greatness.

Two friends will go on a journey to change the course of history and evolve into heroes.

Directed by Harold Ramis, Year One is due out on 19th June.

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Year One - Jakal Dance Clip

Oh (Michael Cera) thinks Eema (Juno Temple) looks nice and Zed (Jack Black) tells him to dance for her, but Oh doesn't want to do the Jakal.

Directed by Harold Ramis, Year One is due out on 19th June 2009.

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Ghostbusters 3 - Fan Made Trailer (Ghostbusters Go to Hell)

whoiseyevan is the one who put in all the hard work to make this. Here is what he has to say about it.

The "trailer" is based on Dan Aykroyd's long-rumored Ghosbusters 3 premise... In fact, that's his voice narrating his idea throughout the 'Hell vignette' part.

It took me forever to piece this thing together. Here's the recipe for the trailer:

Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, Predator, Independence Day, Casper, Nightwatch, Gremlins 2, Lost in Translation, End of Days, Haunted Mansion, Hellboy, Earth vs the Spider, Orange County, Blues Brothers 2000, Miss Congeniality 2, Christmas with the Kranks, Miss Congeniality, Sleepy Hollow, X-Men, The Blob, Spider-man 3, High Spirits, Frighteners, Constantine, Mars Attacks, Charlie's Angels, Be Kind Rewind,
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, Dan in Real Life

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Year One - New trailer for Jack Black, Michael Cera caveman film

Columbia Pictures has just released the trailer for their upcoming comedy, Year One, which will hit theaters nationwide on 5th June.

Written and directed by Harold Ramis, this comedy stars Jack Black and Michael Cera. Produced by Harold Ramis and Judd Apatow after the former appeared in the latter's Knocked Up, Year One is being executive produced by actor/screenwriter Owen Wilson. Oliver Platt, Olivia Wilde, Vinnie Jones, David Cross, and Superbad's Christopher Mintz-Plasse co-star in the Columbia Pictures production.

'Year One' Theatrical Trailer @ Yahoo! Video

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Year One - Poster for Harold Ramis caveman film starring Jack Black and Michael Cera

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Who ya gonna call? Not Judd Apatow.

A few days ago the internet was full of the news that Judd Apatow was going to produce the new Ghostbusters film.

Well looks like it is not true. The LA Times made a couple of calls to the men in suits over at Sony to learn that Apatow has nothing to do with the movie.

"It's not true," says Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures. "We have some great new writers working on a new script, but Judd isn't involved. Judging from the frenzy on the Internet, there still seems to be plenty of interest in the idea of doing another film, so we're certainly taking that as a good sign."

The studio recently hired the writing team of Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg (best known for their work on "The Office") to tackle a new script. As it turns out, most of the original films' creative team are involved as informal consultants on the new project, which would have the original Ghostbusters passing the torch to a new generation.

So why all those Internet posts about Judd Apatow? Some of it is probably just wishful thinking -- after all, Apatow's comic versatility makes him today's equivalent of Reitman, who was the reigning comedy producer-director of his era. But it's also likely that the web gumshoes were confused by the fact that Apatow is producing another Stupnitsky and Eisenberg-penned project, "The Year One," a Harold Ramis-directed adventure comedy that Sony is releasing in June starring Jack Black and Michael Cera. This somehow led to all sorts of speculation that the new GhostBusters project would be populated with actors from the Apatow stock company, which isn't a bad idea, but is total fiction at this stage.

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Year One - Trailer for Harold Ramis directing Jack Black as caveman film

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The Year One - Photo of Jack Black and Michael Cera as cavemen

The Year One is written and directed by Harold Ramis.

When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Black and Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.

The film also stars Ramis, Oliver Platt, Paul Rudd, David Cross, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Hank Azaria, Vinnie Jones and Olivia Wilde (Tr2n).

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Ghostbusters Video Game Trailer

While we wait for the inevitable disappointment that Ghostbusters 3 will bring here is a trailer for the forthcoming Ghostbusters video game. It looks splendid and they do appear to have got the likeness to the actors spot on. Also great to hear Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson back together. It's due out in June 2009. Will you be picking it up?

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Original cast will be in Ghostbusters 3 for a little bit

Harold Ramis is the one who confirms that the original cast will be back merely to mentor the new Ghostbusters team, and he does so in an email to The Chicago Tribune through Latino Review. In it he says:

“yes, Columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my Year One writing partners, Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg. Judd Apatow is co-producing Year One and has made several other films for Sony, so of course the studio is hoping to tap into some of the same acting talent. Aykroyd, Ivan Reitman and I are consulting at this point, and according to Dan, Bill Murray is willing to be involved on some level. He did record his dialogue for the new Ghostbusters video game, as did Danny and I, and Ernie Hudson. The concept is that the old Ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity.”

Great news that they will be in the movie at least for a little bit of it. Bill Murray back in the slime! Would be great if they could be in it for a big chunk of the movie but I doubt they will be, plus they'd need a super wide angle to capture the ever expanding Ramis and Ackroyd!

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