All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
#2All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/27/15 at 4:46pmThat is an amazing group of ladies.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Islander_fan
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#2All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/27/15 at 7:43pm
As a huge Ghostbusters fan, I am cautiously excited. It's not that I have anything against it being an all female cast, I don't. What concerns me is that Dan Aykroyd doesn't have any involvement in it as far as writing goes. I do know that he and Ramis (prior to his passing) were thinking of a way to do a Ghostbusters 3. Minus, of course, Bill Murray's public hemming and hawing over the idea. I believe that one of the ideas that Aykroyd threw around was that the third movie would deal with their original characters retiring and having it be a "passing of the torch" type of story.
Don't get me wrong, I am all in favor of being proved wrong, just like I said though, cautiously optimistic/excited.
#3All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/27/15 at 10:03pmWait...this is real? Not a dream?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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#4All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/27/15 at 10:20pmI barely remember it, but didn't Dan Aykroyd co-write the Blues Brothers sequel? And didn't that involve a kid or someone having the "torch passed down?" And wasn't it awful? Maybe it's for the best that they go in a different direction...
#6All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/27/15 at 10:40pmDoes this mean we get a "hot geek" male actor cast in the Janine role? :O
#7All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/27/15 at 11:16pmIt needs to be Annie Potts again!!
Islander_fan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/14
#8All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/28/15 at 12:53pm
Eric
Your sort of right, I just read the summary for the second Blues Brothers movie. And, in a very convoluted fashion involves there being a passing of the torch so to speak.
I think that the big issue with the second Blues Brothers was more to do with the fact that John Belushi had passed away and clearly couldn't be in the second film. Yes Dan Aykroyd was a co writer on the film I don't think that him doing a passing of the torch story was the issue. The issue, at least to me, had to do with the fact that the Blues Brother characters were great because Aykroyd and Belushi played extremely well off one another both in the SNL skits and the first movie. But it just didn't work without Belushi.
I remember reading an interview with Aykroid during his lengthy battle with trying to get a third Ghostbusters film off the ground. It was not too long after Harold Ramis died and in the interview he talked about how there were a lot of great ideas that the two of them had before Ramis died, that he felt that he could use them to be the solo writer on a third Ghostbusters film.
Point being is that when it comes out I will see it. Will I be
Skeptical, you bet. But will I go i with an open mind? yes, I will
#9All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/28/15 at 1:01pmWill the gender-switch apply throughout the cast? If so, maybe Rachel Dratch as Louise Tully, and James Marsden as Dan Barrett?
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#10All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/28/15 at 1:08pmBring back Sigourney Weaver as... whatever.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#11All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/28/15 at 1:23pm...and Sigourney Weaver as Slimer.
#12All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/28/15 at 1:28pmI would watch anything with this group of women- and it's awesome to see Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones get more recognition outside of their brilliant work on SNL.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#13All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/28/15 at 1:34pmSigourney Weaver could get a cameo as the mayor.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Roscoe
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#14All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/28/15 at 2:10pmThis AMAZING cast of AMAZING actresses starring in a useless reboot of a long dead franchise -- sad. The only thing missing is the Inevitable Meryl Streep. Maybe she'll snag a cameo as a demon or something, or Miranda Priestley will get her comeuppance from Slimer.
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#16All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/28/15 at 3:31pmAlright cast, but I can't stand Melissa McCarthy. She is the female Adam Sandler.
#17All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/28/15 at 6:24pm^^ Yeah, she is good on a tight leash and horrible when given slack. If there if a good tight script, that is funny, and a budget that doesn't allow for endless improv, then maybe... will be interesting to see the movie, though. Hopefully they decide to pack it in after Egon's funeral, and then have some explanation why they are being replaced with an all-female crew, unless that is just an explained conceit of the reboot.
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#18All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/28/15 at 9:13pm
"I barely remember it, but didn't Dan Aykroyd co-write the Blues Brothers sequel? And didn't that involve a kid or someone having the "torch passed down?" And wasn't it awful? Maybe it's for the best that they go in a different direction..."
OHHH I remember it well - I worked on it as a set nurse. I think I still have one of the fans from the Gospel revival meeting somewheres. The phrase was " the calling of the Blood" which was the transference of the "blues" to to illegit son of the Cab Calloway character, now a sheriff in pursuit of the Blues Boys again. Yes u r kerrect the other redunkulous story was an orphan kid who gets handed off to Elwood who attempts both skule him in the Blues AND pass him off ( which of course he doesn't) to someone else. Danny made this big speech about how we were participating in a new special creation that would cont for years.
Mostly it was bad cos mostly it was retreads from the original.
#19All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/28/15 at 9:29pmYou have these four amazing, talented woman-give them something fresh. Oh Jesus this pains me. Are there no good screenwriters left?
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#20All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/29/15 at 5:17pm
Blues Brothers 2000 did have the best super group ever though, in the form of the Louisiana Gator Boys featuring: B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Travis Tritt, Jimmie Vaughan, Gary U.S. Bonds, Isaac Hayes, Tommy McDonnell, Lou Rawls, Koko Taylor, Clarence Clemons, Dr. John, Charlie Musselwhite, Billy Preston, Steve Winwood, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (Guitar), Jack DeJohnette, John Faddis, Joshua Redman, Grover Washington Jr., and Willie Weeks. That is worth sitting through the movie for.
And as for "are there no good screenwriters left", given who is attached to Ghostbusters, looks like there isn't.
Upset we aren't getting the one that Sony was talking about only a few months ago with Michael Fassbender, Chris Pratt, Jonah Hill and Emma Stone, but I reman optimistic.
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#21All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/29/15 at 9:50pm
^^^^^
That was one of the things behind the movie- they thought the soundtrack was gonna clean up as ancillary income and really skyrocket the profit. Wrong.
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#22All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/30/15 at 9:42amUgh, I also find McCarthy insufferable. Can't wait for her to show us how funny she thinks she is.
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#23All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/30/15 at 9:45amI didn't particularly care for the original movie when it came out when I was in college. I loathe Melissa McCarthy.
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#24All-Female GHOSTBUSTERS Finds Its Cast
Posted: 1/30/15 at 7:02pmIf they use the original Ray Parker Jr. theme, will Huey Lewis make more money?
