Dan Aykroyd Revealed The Secret ‘Ghostbusters’ Sequel Months Ago
Fans were taken by surprise when news broke this week thatJason Reitmanwas directing a secretGhostbusterssequel that would directly follow the ’80s comedy classicsGhostbustersandGhostbusters 2. The secret project — which we’ll just callGhostbusters 3for now — was kept under wraps for months, to great success. But it turns out starDan Aykroydaccidentally crossed the streams (of communication) just two months ago.
This week, it wasrevealedthat Jason Reitman had been working onGhostbusters 3in secret for a while now, helping write a directGhostbusters 2sequel that would follow four teenagers who become new Ghostbusters with the help of an old guy with a strange amount of spectral-themed machinery. Aykroyd answered the call to star inGhostbusters 3, which it turns out, he’s been accidentally spoiling since November 2018.
In an interview with AXS TV’sThe Big Interview With Dan Rather, Aykroyd, who wrote and starred in the originalGhostbusters, revealed that the third film was in the works:
“I think we have a story that’s going to work and it’s being written right now by really good filmmakers. I can’t say their names.
They’re a good team and they are making an effort to bring back all the emotion and spirit of the first two movies and then take it into the 21st century with a vernacular that’s needed today to get it across.”
Of course,none of us believed himon account of the poor reception to Paul Feig’s female-ledGhostbustersreboot and the 30-year time gap since 1989’sGhostbusters 2. But we should have paid attention to Aykroyd’s call, because Reitman, the son of originalGhostbustersdirectorIvan Reitman, has officially teamed up withMonster HousedirectorGil Kenanto develop the film, which is set to go into production this summer. They even dropped ateaseron us.
To evade suspicion, the secretGhostbustersproject had reportedly been going by the title “Rust City.” But hopefully the film will be a well-oiled machine by the time it hits theaters in2020.
