Ghostbusters Sequel - coming in 2020

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**ZebioLizard2**

You aren't kidding about that one for certain. The constantly replaying music...

**Alpharius**

RPGs and Video Games - they saved this thread - maybe they can save the world too!!!

**SamusDrake**

Watched all three movies over the last week, and enjoyed them.
Bits I had forgotten about...

"Hes a sailor, he's in new york - we get this guy laid and we wont have any trouble!

"Dooo! Rayyy!!! Egoonnnn!"

"I shall Pester the living!"

...about the games, I couldn't get past the first level of it, but really loved the ZX Spectrum version of Ghostbusters II.

**Voss**

Well, character summaries are wandering out.

https://www.cbr.com/ghostbusters-3-character-breakdowns/amp/

Hard pass for me. I was assuming college/grad school kids, not... dreadfully clichéd preteens. The girls are especially bad, basically Hermione Granger and Luna Lovegood in prepackaged boxes.

**SamusDrake**

To be fair, Ghostbusters had that 80s zany feel typical of movies of its time and obviously times have moved on( Police Academy and Cocoon just don't cut it these days ). The modern audience is more at home - much to my disgust - with the Potter kids.

Seriously, I gave those HP films a shot but lost interest at film 5 or 6. I didn't mind Fantastic Beasts, though...mainly because the characters are in their 30s/40s and more relatable.

IT, Stranger Things, Bumblebee - the flavour of recent years are kids in the 80s...and that is where they are going with GB.

**Voss**

Sure, I can think of marketing reasons to do it.

Just, me personally? Coming of age stories have long become irksome. I can recite all the relevant lessons and tropes as they happen on first viewing. And except for the oddly detailed 'lead boy#2,' they're casting a package, not characters.

It also shifts the tone of the story so much I don't understand all the fuss over making sure it follows the story from 1 and 2. This isn't building a franchise, this is kids in danger or something really freaky with mini-jump suits and proton packs, like a Ghostbusters version of spy kids, which only works if you don't think about it too much.

Edit- not sure what the director is thinking. 'Forget the bad reboot, remember the old times, come back for.... child actors!'

Yeah, that really just calls to the nostalgia crowd. I think I'd prefer a 2016 sequel

**LordofHats**

Voss wrote:
Well, character summaries are wandering out.

https://www.cbr.com/ghostbusters-3-character-breakdowns/amp/

Hard pass for me. I was assuming college/grad school kids, not... dreadfully clichéd preteens. The girls are especially bad, basically Hermione Granger and Luna Lovegood in prepackaged boxes.

You know when I heard they were rebooting Reboot I was super excited. Then I heard the reboot was about a bunch of wangsty kids who jack into the internet to fight evil and I was like "you guys are just incapable of realizing why anyone liked this show in the first place, aren't you?"

And I'm getting that feeling again and I don't even like Ghostbusters that much.

Honestly this reads more like a pitch for a Stranger Things rip off with Ghostbusters slapped on the cover. I suppose I can't be too cynical cause Solo had mountains of warning signs too and ended up being surprisingly good, but I'm feeling kind of cynical about this one XD

**Ouze**

Following news that filming for the project will begin in May, the untitled film that will carry on the original Ghostbusters cinematic continuity will reportedly follow the modern day adventures of four young teenagers—two boys and two girls—who will investigate supernatural events in a small town.

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According to HN Entertainment, the character breakdowns are as such:

UNNAMED (LEAD BOY 1): To play 13 years old. A conspiracy theorist who is very into fantasy.

UNNAMED (LEAD GIRL 1): To play 12 years old. A science kid that has trouble connecting with others on an emotional level, has difficulty understanding feelings and is not aware of how hurtful her comments can be at times.

UNNAMED (LEAD BOY 2): To play 12 years old. Slender, pale, dark hair, piercing blue eyes, aquiline features, high cheekbones, withdrawn, He's prodigious-bright, witty, stubborn, and remains playful in spite of hardship. He is also a brilliantly quick thinker under pressure, is at ease with technology, and has a high facility for problem-solving.

UNNAMED (LEAD GIRL 2) : To play 13 years old. Fun-loving, a bit of an airhead. Always curious, haunted, charmed, dazed.

Sounds execrable.

**Yodhrin**

Ehhhh, I'll still give it a chance, though they've radically increased the odds it'll be garbage - if you're going to make a "family" show/film and not have it be an unendurable torment for the adult part of the audience, you have to get the casting for kid parts pretty close to perfect.

**AduroT**

Yeah, that rather lowers my interest in it alright...

**BobtheInquisitor**

They're good enough, good enough for me, owoahohohooooohhhhhh.

No wait. I was thinking of the Goonies.

(Now I want to see a Goonies rebootquel about a group of zany adults outwitting a gang of juvenile murderers in search of Wee Willie's treasure.)