Ghostbusters at Comic Con 2008?

[arcticfox]

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Late breaking news from the floor of WonderCon in San Francisco. The convention program features an interesting tease that features the classic Ghostbusters logo and “something exciting is coming to the neighborhood!” “Look for the big announcement at Comic Con San Diego 2008”.

Could this be an announcement regarding the upcoming Ghostbusters video game? Probably not. The cat has already been let out of the bag regarding the franchise’s video game plans. Besides, on further inspection, you will notice a “Sony Pictures Home Entertainment” logo. The video game is being produced under an entirely different entity. So what could this be about?

Could it be the Ghostbusters 3 computer animated movie that has been in development for a few years now. Dan Aykroyd confirmed the development of an animated Ghostbusters 3 in an interview last year.

“I wrote a script called Hell Bent, Ghostbusters go to hell basically. The premise is that it’s Manhellton. There’s Manhattan and ManHELLton. And if you can build an inter-dimensional phase system so that you can go from one dimension to another. We’ve succeeded doing that and we go to the hell side. Downtown, Folley Square - where the cops are, they’re all blue minotaurs. Central Park is this huge deep mine, green demons there, surrounded by black onyx thousand foot high apartment buildings with classic red devils. Very wealthy. And we go visit a Donald Trump like character - Mr. Siffler. Lou Siffler, Lucifer. So I will say we meet the devil in it. It won’t happen as a live action because Billy [Murray] won’t come on to the live action but he will voice his part, as a CGI animated project. With CGI, and animation, the way these cartoons are done, we can do everything I wrote in that script for a lot less money.”

So maybe the project will be officially announced at Comic Con? Although I don’t understand why they wouldn’t go theatrical with such a release. I have also confirmed with my sources that Ghostbusters is currently being prepped for release on Blu-ray disc. Could that be the big announcement?
Slashfilm (http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/02/22/big-ghostbusters-announcement/)

Are the totally rad guys going to comic con?

I really hope this is the Ghostbusters 3 CGI film i love Ghostbusters.

[ariastar]

My bet is a release date for the next movie.

Great, now I want to watch it. Probably the second one. I like Viggo.

[scoobydiesel]

I hope its the third film but man im so scare it will suck...

[ariastar]

I hope its the third film but man im so scare it will suck...

After this many years, the ghosts will be memories of all the nights spent getting shot down when trying to pick up chicks.

[the-art-of-raul]

Game Informer, Dec 2007
Dan Aykroyd Interview:

Game Informer: How does it feel to come back to the Ghostbuster universe after all this time? Do you still get a lot of people coming up to you on the street asking about another movie?

Dan Aykroyd: Well, practically and realistically, I’ve been telling people it’s very doubtful that there’s going to be a third movie. But now that I’ve seen the work on the video game, I’ve watched it progress, my rap now to people is, “This is essentially the third movie.” And it’s better than the third movie because it lasts longer, there’s more development of the characters, there’s more of a need for story layers. The guys have done a great job putting story layers in there that I can begin to embellish and work with. And I tell people this: “If you have an appetite for the third movie, then the video game is it.” And I really do believe that at this point, from having seen what they’ve done there.


As much as I would like to see something awesome with the Ghostbusters, the video game is as close as we are going to get to a direct sequel. With Aykroyd and Harold Ramis writing the script to the game, we just have to have faith and cherish what we get to experience.