<![CDATA[io9: Harold Ramis]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: Harold Ramis]]> http://io9.com/tag/harold ramis http://io9.com/tag/harold ramis <![CDATA[ New Ghostbusters To Feature Old Ghostbusters ]]> No sooner is a new Ghostbusters movie announced, than rumors start to fly around the internet about whether the new installment will be a reboot, a sequel, replacing the original cast or retaining them, and whether anyone will, this time around, be afraid of no ghosts. Thankfully, co-creator Harold Ramis was on hand to offer a particularly ee cummings-esque helpful update to the confused faithful.

Writing to the Chicago Tribune despite the apparent loss of his Caps Lock key, Ramis revealed that at least a couple of the original cast are definitely onboard for the third movie:

yes, columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my year one writing partners, gene stupnitsky and lee eisenberg. judd apatow is co-producing year one and has made several other films for sony, so of course the studio is hoping to tap into some of the same acting talent. aykroyd, ivan reitman and i are consulting at this point, and according to dan, bill murray is willing to be involved on some level. he did record his dialogue for the new ghostbusters video game, as did danny and i, and ernie hudson. the concept is that the old ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity. not much else to say at this point. everyone is confident a decent script can be written and i guess we'll take it from there.

The same acting talent as Apatow's other movies? So that would mean Paul Rudd, Jason Siegel and the by-now ubiquitous Seth Rogen for the main roles, I guess... but who will be the new Annie Potts?

Harold Ramis confirms 'Ghostbusters III' [Chicago Tribune]

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Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:30:00 PDT Graeme McMillan http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5046450&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Batman Spreads His Legs And Reproduces ]]> A weird old guy gets Michael Keaton into a gown and tells him to put his feet in the stirrups, in the only science fictional sequence from 1996's Multiplicity. Then the machines whir and a lumpy body starts to form, slowly solidifying into a perfect adult clone of Keaton, with all his memories. It's a weirdly disturbing sequence, reminiscent of the 1970s Body Snatchers. And then the movie careens downhill from there, as you can see in our second clip.

Keaton ends up making two copies of himself: a hard-assed construction worker version to handle work, and a prissy neat freak version to handle his domestic chores. The only rule, as he explains here, is that neither version can sleep with his wife. Of course, they both end up doing her. And so does the genetically damaged clone of a clone whom they create later. The only funny sequence in the movie is when the wife, played by Andi MacDowell, pours out her heart to the mentally challenged clone of the clone.

Sadly, Multiplicity isn't even the best comedy about cloning featuring Eugene Levy in a supporting role, which ought to be a fairly easy category to rise to the top of. That honor belongs to Repli-Kate, a far superior movie.

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Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:27:34 PST Charlie Jane Anders http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=353454&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Ernie Hudson Wants 'Ghostbusters 3' To Call ]]> gb3logo.gifErnie Hudson hopes the new Ghostbusters video game coming out next year means Ghostbusters 3 will be haunting theaters. The game features Hudson's voice, along with the voices of Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd, who wrote the game. The fact that Aykroyd was able to assemble all the original talent for this game may be a good sign for Ghostbusters 3 and 4, which already have Aykroyd-penned scripts. We say the best move would be to call it Ghostbusters 2, so we can rid our brains of the nasty slime that terrible sequel left behind.

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Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:30:07 PST Kevin Kelly http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338069&view=rss&microfeed=true