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Ghostbusters Franchise Planning A Second, Male-Centric Movie Along With All-
In addition to the Ghostbusters’ reboot starring Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, another male-centric Ghostbusters movie is being planned by Sony Pictures.
According to Deadline, the studio is forming Ghostcorps, a production company led by Ivan Reitman and Dan Akyroyd, that will handle branding opportunities associated with the franchise.
Joe and Anthony Russo, who directed Captain America: The Winter Soldier, are in line for the male-driven Ghostbusters film, with a script from Drew Pearce, who wrote Iron Man 3 and Mission Impossible 5. Channing Tatum and partners Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan are on board to produce, with hopes that Tatum will play one of the protagonists in the remake. This process is being handled by Sony while they also begin production on the Paul Feig-directed, female-led Ghostbusters. The project is ambitious and still in the early stages of development.
Reitman made a statement, saying, “We want to expand the Ghostbusters universe in ways that will include different films, TV shows, merchandise, all things that are part of modern filmed entertainment. This is branded entertainment, a scary supernatural premise mixed with comedy. Paul Feig’s film will be the first version of that, shooting in June to come out in July 2016. He’s got four of the funniest women in the world, and there will be other surprises to come. The second film has a wonderful idea that builds on that. Drew will start writing and the hope is to be ready for the Russo Brothers’ next window next summer to shoot, with the movie coming out the following year. It’s just the beginning of what I hope will be a lot of wonderful movies.”
