Editorial Staff
Those other “Ghostbusters” movies, specifically the one Drew Pearce has penned that’ll potentially team Channing Tatum and Chris Pratt? Just noise, according to “Ghostbusters” director and series producer Ivan Reitman.
Hot on the heels of Pearce’s quotes pertaining to a future “Ghostbusters”, Reitman released the following statement :
“There has been a lot of excitement recently about what is happening with the Ghostbusters franchise,” Reitman said in the statement, published by Birth.Movies.Death. “As the producer of the new Ghostbusters film, I feel the need to clarify. There is only one new Ghostbusters movie and that is the Paul Feig directed version coming next July, presently filming and going fantastically. The rest is just noise.”
Interestingly enough, back in March, Reitman himself said there’s a bigger plan for the “Ghostbusters” universe beyond next year’s Paul Feig-directed flick.
“We want to expand the Ghostbusters universe in ways that will include different films, TV shows, merchandise, all things that are part of modern filmed entertainment. This is a branded entertainment, a scary supernatural premise mixed with comedy. Paul Feig’s film will be the first version of that, shooting in June to come out in July 2016. He’s got four of the funniest women in the world, and there will be other surprises to come. The second film has a wonderful idea that builds on that. Drew [Pearce] will start writing and the hope is to be ready for the Russo Brothers’ next window next summer to shoot, with the movie coming out the following year. It’s just the beginning of what I hope will be a lot of wonderful movies.”
