Last year’s “Ghostbusters” reboot wasn’t the massive hit that the studio and filmmakers were hoping for. No matter your thoughts on the finished product, the film just didn’t make enough money to warrant a sequel. But that’s not deterring producer Ivan Reitman from keeping hope alive. He’s not just planning to continue the “Ghostbusters” franchise with another movie, he’s planning on multiple movies.
“We jumped into an animated film [after the last movie] and we are developing live-action films. I want to bring all these stories together as a universe that makes sense within itself. Part of my job right now is to do that,” said Reitman in an interview with io9.
Is the public craving more “Ghostbusters” movies, especially an animated film? That’s the big question. Reitman is betting there’s still a big outcry for more stories from the “Ghostbusters” universe. Before the reboot film premiered last summer, there were tons of rumors about a “Ghostbusters” cinematic universe combining the female cast with another franchise of people busting ghosts that starred Channing Tatum and Chris Pratt. It’s not known if the “universe” that Reitman is hinting at is this plan or a completely new one.
Reitman also has some thoughts about why the reboot didn’t do so well. “We certainly would’ve loved to have a larger hit, but considering the last film was almost 30 years ago, it really did extremely well. I think the film cost too much, frankly, and that’s the real issue. I personally had other points of view in terms of where the film should go and it was kind of a continuous conversation with Paul [Feig] about that. But Paul was the filmmaker on this one and he’s a very talented director. I wanted to give him enough room to do the film he thought it should be,” said the producer.
With the long layoff between films, and the lukewarm reception of the last film, it remains unclear whether or not Reitman is right or maybe the public just isn’t interested in a new version of “Ghostbusters.” Even with the controversy surrounding the 2016 film, with an all-star cast and director, it still failed to live up to expectations. Even if that film ended up only costing $70 million instead of $144 million, the final worldwide box office total of $229 million isn’t enough to warrant a huge franchise.
According to Reitman, the animated film is shooting for release in 2019 or 2020.
It COULD be done..with a script less relying on hysterical effects (who gets scared by too obvious CGI ghosts anyway?) and more, MUCH more on 1) character interaction, and 2) a story that actually has some..dare I say substance? A story which require the main characters to do some detective-like work to figure out, which delivers some “breathing space” for us in the audience, and build up some nice tension. And interest. It CAN be done, but WILL it be done? That’s the $10.000 question.
The two things that kept me from watching it was the fake looking ghosts, and the racist related comment that came out of Leslie Jones’s mouth. To hear “I don’t know if it’s a race thing, or a woman thing, but I’m mad as hell.” That irritated me. The other women were able to crowd surf, so it wasn’t a gender thing. As for the race part, I honestly believe it had nothing to do with it. People only permit crowd surfing for so long, before they get bored. Or she could have just dove into a group that doesn’t participate in it. Whichever the answer may be, race had nothing to do with it. And to say it, was just wrong. To try to make it part of “funny dialogue” is wrong as well.
I think you put way too much thought into it. It’s just a joke. You either find it funny or not, it’s simple.
I didn’t think it was funny, neither did my husband or our friends and family.
People were always down for more GBs. What they were NOT down for, was making PC/SJW political screed instead of a comedy. It shat on the source material.
Keep shιtting on the franchise.
…Yes, because Paul Feig, the guy who insulted reviews of the movie, even if they were legit, is clearly stable enough to handle another unfunny Trainwreck
I thought it cost way too much myself, with the risk they took with it. They made it into an eyesore like Amazing Spider Man when they should have focused on the laughs and the scares. If you do it again, you gotta lose Feig and do a movie that connects to the originals. Just pretend the last one didn’t happen. No callbacks, no winky refs. Just move on.