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.