Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy = new Ghostbusters

^ all of them

katy perry definitely seems like the one who'd start posting instagrams about how badly she wants to

Can't wait for the video where Don Draper goes "Ghostbusters!" right after Owen Wilson says "Ghostbusters!"

Ben Stiller already figuring out how to make the most of his three seconds

http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/media/gb2_music_onourown_vid11.jpg

I was looking at the file title and forgetting what thread I was on and thinking "what does Patti LaBelle have to do with Ben Stiller"

Can't wait for the video where Don Draper goes "Ghostbusters!" right after Owen Wilson says "Ghostbusters!"

― pplains, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 11:52 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ irl lol

http://screencrush.com/ghostbusters-music-video/

George Wendt:
"I was shooting with Jerry Schatzberg and Demi Moore, it was a Columbia picture, 'No Small Affair' at what used to be the Burbank studios -- it was Columbia and Warner Bros. And Ivan Reitman stopped over at the stage and asked if I could stop over at his office at lunch. So, at lunch I went over to his office and I sat there and they played the track. And I said 'Ghostbusters,' and that was pretty much it. The weird thing was I think we all got in trouble with the Screen Actors Guild after the fact, after it came out. You know, it sounded like a giggle, it sounded like fun, so I just did it. It took less than five minutes. But, I guess it was such a big hit as a music video, I guess SAG decided that would be a good project to maybe try to take a stand against to organize music videos. I can't blame SAG for trying to make a stand to organize music videos, which was a relatively new format back then. Not much came of it, we just got letters saying that's not cool, don't do that again and if you do that again you'll be on secret double probation. But, I get it. I'm a union man. I'm OK with it. It just never occurred to me that it would be a problem."

get Murray to do a voice-only ghost/monster character, if he can go into a vocal booth and be Garfield he can do that.

tbf, Murray only did Garfield because he thought it was a Coen Brothers movie:

Plus, I looked at the script, and it said, "So-and-so and Joel Coen." And I thought: Christ, well, I love those Coens! They're funny. So I sorta read a few pages of it and thought, Yeah, I'd like to do that. I had these agents at the time, and I said, "What do they give you to do one of these things?" And they said, "Oh, they give you $50,000." So I said, "Okay, well, I don't even leave the fuckin' driveway for that kind of money."

...

Finally, I went out to L.A. to record my lines. And usually when you're looping a movie, if it takes two days, that's a lot. I don't know if I should even tell this story, because it's kind of mean. [beat] What the hell? It's interesting. So I worked all day and kept going, "That's the line? Well, I can't say that." And you sit there and go, What can I say that will make this funny? And make it make sense? And I worked. I was exhausted, soaked with sweat, and the lines got worse and worse. And I said, "Okay, you better show me the whole rest of the movie, so we can see what we're dealing with." So I sat down and watched the whole thing, and I kept saying, "Who the hell cut this thing? Who did this? What the fuck was Coen thinking?" And then they explained it to me: It wasn't written by that Joel Coen.

omg

the script for A Tail Of Two Kitties was also credited to Joel Cohen. Can't believe bill fell for it a second time.

For future reference: who's cameo in the "ghostbusters" video do you enjoy most?

wait that link is fucked up - where's the entire interview?

A Cohen Bros. Garfield movie sounds incredible

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201008/bill-murray-dan-fierman-gq-interview?currentPage=1

And the pieces fall into place.

[shakes head sadly] At least they had what's-her-name. The mind reader, pretty girl, really curvy girl, body's one in a million? What's her name? Help me. You know who I mean.

Jennifer Love Hewitt?

Right! At least they had her in good-looking clothes. Best thing about the movie. But that's all ugly. That's inappropriate. That's just… [laughs] That's why, when they say, "Any regrets?" at the end of Zombieland, I say, "Well, maybe Garfield."

It's interesting that the same guy voices Bill Murray's character in the Real Ghostbusters cartoon AND Garfield's voice in the Garfield & Friends cartoon. He's a pro Bill Murray impersonator.

It's a tangled web

LAMARCHE: They asked me not to do Harold Ramis and I still did it. Because I didn’t know anything else to do with the character. So everything at that point that I’d done was derivative and I had absolutely no original thoughts or voices. So the only thing I could do was Ramis. So I did it, and for some reason it was the only voice that sounded like the original voice from the movie. They decided they could let that slide and Egon was such a specific character they really had to honor Harold Ramis’ unique take on that character. After 65 episodes, apparently legend has it Bill Murray finally came forward and said, “How come Harold’s guy sounds just like him and my guy sounds like Garfield?” And they said, “Well, Bill, that’s because the guy who does the voice of Garfield is doing your character.” Now, Bill’s not asking him to be fired or anything. But this one comment from Bill Murray, and with them having Ghostbusters 2 in the works, somebody in the machine said, “You know what? Bill’s unhappy. We got to get a guy who sounds like him.” And so Dave Coulier took over the part after 65 episodes and Lorenzo Music lost the part, and it was a very strange transition because I loved them both, and thought both they did a great job with the character. But the irony - the huge irony - of it is that now with the Garfield movie, Bill Murray has taken over the part originally voiced by Lorenzo Music.

What were Murray's movies before Ghostbusters? Meatballs, Caddyshack, and Stripes? He was a well-meaning weirdo slob, basically. As McCarthy has been in the couple of movies I've seen her in. So why couldn't she do Venkman? Murray had to stretch a bit in the role compared to his previous movies. I am way more worried about the issue latebloomer brought up, which is that part of what makes the original so awesome is Dan Aykroyd's affectionate and considered approach to the supernatural. Feig has zero chance of doing that, as far as I can tell.

the heat was kind of thin, but i think feig's work is relatively affectionate and considered. i don't think its beyond him to have the ghost hunters be earnest and to end the movie going "new york yay"

ivan reitman's previous movies were meatballs and stripes too

Someone writing at Jezebel as "A Hysterical Man" mockingly rounds up exactly the kinds of reactions you'd expect from very stupid people on this topic. http://jezebel.com/new-all-feminist-ghostbusters-is-a-punch-in-the-dick-to-1682292125

anyone who's really indignant should just finance their own reboot of this show:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_(1986_TV_series)

Watched that a lot as a kid. Didn't realize it was a reboot itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdPfUYgY6nw

bill was just joshing around with that garfield by the coen bros story, right

https://twitter.com/ghostsplaining

I can't even

No problems with the female cast, just with the total intellectual bankruptcy of the remake itself

Joel Cohen should team up with this guy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etan_Cohen

http://starsmedia.ign.com/stars/image/article/853/853701/senor-spielbergo-20080220055603144.jpg

I'm looking forward to it, even though Identity Thief is more depressing than any Dardenne movie.

No problems with the female cast, just with the total intellectual bankruptcy of the remake itself

What are you talking about, this is the perfect opportunity to get all the things right that the original got wrong.

What were Murray's movies before Ghostbusters? Meatballs, Caddyshack, and Stripes?

Plus Tootsie and Where The Buffalo Roam basically.

@NickPinkerton · Jan 28
Ghostbusters is a pile of shit, and the success of its blockbuster, big $$$ SFX comedy formula did inestimable damage to American movies.

Yeah, that unstoppable glut of big $$$ SFX comedies is still plaguing us to this day.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/schedule/?view=bydate&release=theatrical&date=1984-06-08&p=.htm

idiotic opinion

the summer before ghostbusters, people were going to see films like superman iii, staying alive and octopussy. today....*shakes head*

@NickPinkerton · Jan 28
Ghostbusters is a pile of shit, and the success of its blockbuster, big $$$ SFX comedy formula did inestimable damage to American movies.

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, January 29, 2015 7:35 PM (47 minutes ago)

no it isn't, and no it didn't

looking forward to wiig snapping gozer's neck after destroying new york

"inestimable". Can one estimate the damage wrought by Ghostbusters? No, one cannot.

yeah ck the repeat business from this board alone for Guardians of the Galaxy

and Octopussy is perhaps the best 007 film of the last 40 years

that's not saying much considering p much every 007 film is awful

What, exactly, is the nature of this inestimable damage that Ghostbusters has wrought? If anything, it had far less influence on American movies than I personally might have preferred.

I can't think of any movie that tried to copy the "formula" of Ghostbusters - ie an effects-driven ensemble comedy. unless we count the Avengers.

http://roadhouseinteractive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/The-Watch-Movie.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/Monstersquadposter.jpg/220px-Monstersquadposter.jpg

though considering how those movies did, i'm not arguing that we're overcome with the shit

Great tagline