{"id":106660,"date":"2019-01-16T12:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T12:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=106660"},"modified":"2019-01-16T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T12:23:51","slug":"ghostbusters-is-getting-a-new-film-from-jason-reitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/ghostbusters-is-getting-a-new-film-from-jason-reitman\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostbusters is getting a new film from Jason Reitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dust off your proton packs, you might need them&#8230; According to <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/movies\/2019\/01\/15\/new-ghostbusters-movie-jason-reitman\/?utm_term=DF3B8B04-1929-11E9-9AE6-CADF923C408C&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_ew&amp;utm_source=twitter.com\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, there&#8217;s a new\u00a0<em><strong>Ghostbusters<\/strong><\/em> film in the works. But that&#8217;s not all: it&#8217;s being directed by Jason Reitman, the\u00a0son of\u00a0<em><strong>Ghostbusters\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(1984) and\u00a0<em><strong>Ghostbusters II<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(1989) director Ivan Reitman,\u00a0and will take place in the same universe as the first two films.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve always thought of myself as the first\u00a0<strong><em>Ghostbusters<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>fan, when I was a 6-year-old visiting the set. I wanted to make a movie for all the other fans,&#8221; Reitman says. &#8220;This is the next chapter in the original franchise. It is not a reboot. What happened in the \u201880s happened in the \u201880s, and this is set in the present day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reitman co-wrote the script with Gil Kenan.\u00a0The film is being produced by Sony Pictures and is expected to reach cinemas in Summer 2020. Shooting will begin in a few months. The film is currently untitled, but we&#8217;re guessing it will be called\u00a0<em><strong>Ghostbusters III<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s currently unclear whether any of the original\u00a0<em><strong>Ghostbusters<\/strong><\/em> cast members will return for the film. But it seems likely that at least a few will appear, seeing as Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts all appeared in Paul Feig&#8217;s 2016\u00a0<em><strong>Ghostbusters\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>film, and\u00a0that wasn&#8217;t even set in the same universe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have so much respect for what Paul created with those brilliant actresses, and would love to see more stories from them,&#8221; Reitman added. &#8220;However, this new movie will follow the trajectory of the original film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new film will definitely feature a host of new characters, though. &#8220;This is very early, and I want the film to unwrap like a present. We have a lot of wonderful surprises and new characters for the audience to meet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The untitled\u00a0<em>Ghostbusters<\/em> film will be in cinemas in the summer of 2020. Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Reitman is directing a Ghostbusters film set in the same universe as the originals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":106662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[373],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gettyimages-1055637972.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}