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Max Landis Writing ‘Ghostbusters 3′?
A new report claims that Chronicle screenwriter Max Landis is working on a new draft of Ghostbusters 3 with a three-week turnaround. According to Nikki Finke‘s sources, with that kind of turn around Landis is probably doing more of a polish than a completely new screenplay.
Here’s what Finke had to say:
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Word is that the execs are mostly happy with it and believe that “all the parts are there, as in beats, structural mechanics, etc, but they’re not all doing their jobs”.
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Say what you will about Max Landis’ public persona, but the guy sure knows how to write a great script. Also notable, Max is (of course) the son of director John Landis, who was offered the original Ghostbusters (originally called Ghostsmashers) but turned it down. He’s also directed numerous classic films.
This news comes after Phil Lord and Chris Miller (The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street) reportedly turned down the gig, and Zombieland director and Ant-Man runner-up Ruben Fleischer was mentioned as a potential helmer. Sony/Columbia distributed Fleischer’s Zombieland and 30 Minutes or Less.
Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman recently talked about the script after the death of original Ghostbusters cast member Harold Ramis. Reitman had been set to direct the picture, but pulled back to a producing role after his friend passed:
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The first [script] was done by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, and me, Harold [Ramis] and Dan [Aykroyd] helped them on it. It was a really good script, but then it became clear that Bill really didn’t want to do another Ghostbusters and that it was literally impossible to find him to speak to for the year or two we tried to get it going. When Bill finally…well, he never actually said no, but he never said yes, so there was no way to make that film. We decided to start over again, and I started working with Etan Cohen, with Dan lending a helping hand. Harold got sick about three years ago, and we kept hoping he would get better. I kept pushing forward on the Etan Cohen and we now have a draft that is very good, that the studio is very excited about.
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