It was recently announced that Ivan Reitman would not be returning for the upcoming sequel Ghostbusters 3, although producers were determined that the project was still in place. This is perhaps because they had a new director, or directors, in mind. It’s rumoured that Phil Lord and Chris Miller will be rebooting a series that hasn’t seen a genuinely successful instalment since its 1984 beginning.
Lord and Miller are of coarse the brilliant minds behind The Lego Movie, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street. For potential stars, we reckon surviving G’busters (RIP Harold Ramis) Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd will have a small role, and I doubt appearances from the original’s Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver or Ernie Hudson but will most likely be handing the baton over to a new era of Slimer-fighters and (Stay Pufft) Mashmallowman-hunters. Altogether now: Who you gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS!
There’s two adaptations of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book racing into production at the moment. Disney have gone as far as appointing Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Zathura, Elf) as director and Idris Elba (Pacific Rim, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, American Gangster) for the voice role of Shere Kahn while Warner Bros named Ron Howard (Rush, Apollo 13) atop of their list of potential shot-callers. The latter production has now stalked the jungle for their new director who’s none other than Andy Serkis. Serkis (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Return of the King’s Gollum, Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ Caeser and King Kong’s King Kong) is set to make his directing debut with The Jungle Book although his not alien to the job – he’s worked very closer with Oscar winning director Peter Jackson as second-unit director on The Hobbit films where he directed the Moria battle sequence.
Patton Oswalt has consistently proved himself as a comic talent in Young Adult, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and a brilliant cameo role in Brooklyn Nine-Nine (pictured) as well as having the lead in animation Ratatouille. He’s now attached to star in an upcoming episode of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, a show which had a rough beginning, took and extended Christmas break and then returned with (hopefully) better quality of writing to finish off and to bid for a second season greenlight. Others set to join the main cast of Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennett, Elizabeth Henstidge and Iain De Caestecker include Jaimie Alexander and Bill Paxton.
Oswalt had this to say: “I’m lucky that I’m visible enough that they wanted to bring me in to play this character. I’d worked with Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy, Angel and Firefly and director of Serenity and The Avengers) before on Dollhouse, and I guess I wasn’t too annoying and they decided to put me on another one of his shows. So I was very lucky.”
Agents of SHIELD – continues on ABC and Channel 4
Ghostbusters 3 – 2016?
The Jungle Book – 2016?
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