New "Ghostbusters" will be shot in 2019. Which is good bc the 2016-version sucked.

[DetlefK]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/jason-reitman-direct-new-ghostbusters-movie-1176512

Reitman, the son of original Ghostbusters helmer Ivan Reitman, will helm a new Ghostbusters movie that he has been working on in secret.

The filmmaker discreetly co-wrote a script with Gil Kenan, director of the animated movie Monster House, and the pic is set to go into production this summer with an eye on a 2020 release.

The whole project has been under a veil of secrecy; the code name it has been operating under has been "Rust City."

Sony is calling the new feature “the next chapter in the original story,” saying it continues the narrative of the 1980s classic. It has also been described as a passing of the torch, “both inside and out.”

What is unclear is if any of the original members will return. Sources say that Reitman is on the lookout to cast four teens in the movie, two boys and two girls.

Sounds a little bit like "Extreme Ghostbusters".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Ghostbusters



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Let's hope they get Ghostbusters right this time. The 2016-version just has so many flaws:
* Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon have the wrong acting-style for a movie. They are too intense to play non-crazy characters. And Melissa McCarthy has no range and always plays the same character: "impolite fat woman"
* We are lost in the crazy. There is no "straight", grounded character to serve as a mirror for how bizarre the whole situation and the character's behavior actually is.



But I think the biggest flaw is that the original "Ghostbusters" was written for 1980s cinematography, with a certain style. And you cannot transfer the script to a different cinematography without ruining it.

For example:
Take a look at some 1980s comedies. "Three Amigos", "Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag", "Naked Gun", "National Lampoon's Vacation", "Caddyshack"... Or the comedic thriller "Into the Night"... They are written with a slow pace, building up to funny moments, building up to tension.

Nowadays most comedy is just insane and ridiculous. A neverending salvo of jokes and screams and sobby, cheesy kitsch trying to ram emotions down your throat.
"You are seeing a scene about family and friendship. The movie-studio commands you to feel positive emotions about the abstract concepts of family and friendship. NOW!!!"

God forbid that a single minute goes by without something exciting or funny or wholesome happening!!!

That's how we got abominations like "Terminator Genysis" or "Jurassic World". The characters are not humans. Humans would have emotions, but the script is so tight that there is no time allotted for the characters to show panic or shock. Event after event that would send any real person into years of therapy, and they just shrug it off as if nothing happened.



That's why the 2016-version of Ghostbusters sucked. Because they completely left out the build-up.

The original "Ghostbusters" has this scene where Venkman, Stantz and Spengler come out of a bank. Stantz has just taken out a massive loan. This is their jump. This is the moment where they risk it all and leave their old lives behind. This is the point of no return. They either win or they fail catastrophically. We have no idea how this will go.

In 2016 there was no such scene. We already had accepted that ghosts are real and that they will found the Ghostbusters and that they will be successful. We already knew the end.

The 1984 Ghostbusters were entrepreneurs who risked everything, everything, for an idea they believed in. Their first and foremost enemies were the banks and government-regulators. The risk was shown, not told.

The 2016 ghostbusters were generic superheroes who battled some generic supernatural evil entity, with nothing really at stake. The risk was told, not shown.









Here's your homework: Watch a comedy and count all the times people scream during funny moments.

[JuJuYoshida]

1. teaser came fast!