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Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky are the two writers who
were hired by Columbia Pictures to create the third installment of
Ghostbusters, the newspaper Variety informs.
The two also brought the British hit “The Office” to the
television screen in the U.S.
Even though Columbia Pictures declined to comment on the
matter, director John Landis, who worked with Aykroyd on The Blues Brothers and
Trading Places, confirmed that the film will be made.
“I'm not involved but I know it's happening,” he told the
BBC News website at the Venice Film Festival.
The 1980s hit movie, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and
Harold Ramis, told the story of three parapsychology professors who are fired
and start an enterprise called Ghostbusters, a spectral investigation and
removal service.
“Ghostbusters” was Sony's top-grossing film ever until it
was surpassed by “Men in Black,” which was also out knocked off by “Spider
Man.” The 1984 film grossed $292 million worldwide, and its 1989 sequel brought
in another $215 million globally.
Last year the original Ghostbusters cast reunited to lend
their faces and voices to a computer game based on the movie. But soon the
game’s future was doubtful, when Activision announced it would not release the
product.
However, Developers Vivendi assured that the game had not
been cancelled and would be published by another company.
The new Ghostbusters movie hopes to reunite all the cast
members of the original film.
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