Will GHOSTBUSTERS get a Marvel-Style Universe?
The talk of a new Ghostbusters movie has escalated from a third film with an all-female cast to an all out Marvel-style connected universe. The news comes from co-writer and star Dan Aykroyd, who was in London promoting his brand of Crystal Head vodka. I don't know if the actor was drunk when he said this, but here's the quote:
"It’s beyond just another sequel, a prequel, another TV show. I'm thinking what does the whole brand mean to Sony? What does Pixar and Star Wars mean to Disney? What does Marvel mean to Fox?"
He went on to say that the whole Ghostbusters team, including himself, the executives, the creative talent, and producer Ivan Reitman are looking at the next 10 years of the franchise.
He went on to say that the focus is not on "just another movie or another TV show, but what’s the totality of it? The whole mythology from the beginning of their lives, the end of their lives. Ghostbusters at nine years old, Ghostbusters in high school." Aykroyd then used the Ecto-1 as an analogy to drive his point home:
"It’s up on blocks, it needs new electronics, new everything. That’s what we have to do. The whole vehicle of Ghostbusters has to be rebuilt. That’s the ambitious thinking that’s going on now. Taking on the model of Marvel where we take all of the elements that are in this movie and we put them out there as different ideas."
When the idea of an all-female version of Ghostbusters was a real thing, he said it was a possibility for the third or fourth film. It wasn't specified if that was the third or fourth film in this new universe he wants to develop though. He just said that they need to write it.
A third Ghostbusters has been in the works forever, and even though it seems like it's making some headway and it's on the road to happening, it's kind of hard to believe that it will ever happen. Let alone multiple films that would fill a cinematic universe. If it does actually happen though, awesome!
Source: THR