For a long time Sony, Dan Akroyd, and Harold Ramis tried to put together Ghostbusters 3, but for various reasons it just wasn't going to happen. Bill Murray openly shunned any attempt to lure him back, nobody seemed to like the script, and there simply wasn't a lot of enthusiasm for it. That all changed when Paul Feig came up with the idea for an all-female reboot and suddenly everyone had an idea about who should be in it. The first names thrown around were Feig regulars like Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig, who would both end up in the film, plus others like Rebel Wilson, Emma Stone, and Linda Cardellini. Ultimately, it was SNL's Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon who got the call, but what about the mega-popular Stone?
While talking with the Wall Street Journal, Stone revealed that she was offered a role in Ghostbusters but turned it down...
“The script was really funny. It just didn’t feel like the right time for me. A franchise is a big commitment—it’s a whole thing. I think maybe I need a minute before I dive back into that water.”
So basically she needs a break from franchises after that whole 'Amazing Spider-Man' thing, which is totally understandable.
Meanwhile, filming on Ghostbusters is soon to begin in Boston, and the Boston Herald has come up with a few more details about the plot and the lead characters...Wiig and McCarthy play a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real. Flash forward a few years and Wiig lands a prestigious teaching position at Columbia U. Which is pretty sweet, until her book resurfaces and she is laughed out of academia.
Wiig reunites with McCarthy and the other two proton pack-packing phantom wranglers, and she gets some sweet revenge when ghosts invade Manhattan and she and her team have to save the world.
So not a radical difference from the original movies at all. Paul Feig's Ghostbusters, which will co-star Chris Hemsworth as the team receptionist, opens July 22nd 2016.
