Ivan Reitman Back for ‘Ghostbusters 3′

Published by Jeff Leins on October 9, 2009

The director of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2, Ivan Reitman, is attached to return for the developing third installment.  The original crew of Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Ernie Hudson and Sigourney Weaver have already agreed to return.  (Sorry, no Rick Moranis.  He’s still retired.)

Bloody-Disgusting has confirmed Reitman will definitely be involved in some capacity, but he’s currently only attached as a producer.  It’s still uncertain whether he wants to get behind the camera again, so for now he’s merely “attached.”

That being said, I’d expect a decision on a director to be made soon as screenwriters Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg have already turned in a script.  B-D learned the story will open with the ghost removal service re-opening after a several year hiatus.  Other rumors have hinted at the Ghostbusters training a newer, younger crew of ghost hunters, but they’re unconfirmed.

Reitman directed several classics in the 80’s and 90’s, but his career dived in the new millennium and he’s taken to producing movies instead.  He recently collaborated with his successful filmmaker son, Jason Reitman, on the upcoming buzzed-about film Up in the Air.

Speaking of Jason, he Tweeted this today: “Some Ghostbusters 3 chatter today. Even suggestions that I direct. You don’t want me directing GB. It would be all talk and no busting.”