In a recent interview with Larry King, Dan Aykroyd says that they’ll be casting 4 new Ghostbusters for Ghostbusters 3.
It doesn’t sound like they plan to stray too far from the original formula, as Aykroyd elaborates: “We’re going to have to cast. We need four new Ghostbusters. We need four new Columbia students.”
Dan goes on to say that if Bill Murray wants in, the door is always open. They’ll find a spot for him, even if development and production is underway. With that said, I turn to you, fellow Scoopers-
Who would you cast as the four NEW Ghostbusters? Would you try to fill the archetypes established by Venkman, Stantz, Zeddmore and Spengler, or would you go with four entirely new personalities?
Keeping in mind this not a reboot, but a sequel (so no re-casting the four originals) – hit the comments with your casting choices!
I’ll start the festivities here:
- Timothy Olyphant
- Bill Hader
- Donald Glover
- Aaron Paul (mainly so he can make this face every time he sees something supernatural)
- Assistant: Nicole Beharie
Clearly I’m thinking grad students as opposed to typical college-aged characters. Your turn!
This cast is perfect.
thanks Cor! No changes at all?
please for the love of god! no black women to be casted. they always have to have a terrible attitude i cannot stand
That’s not true. Check out Dana Davis on “Franklin and Bash.”
Way to be an ignorant piece of human filth, Joe Joe. There are tons of hilarious black and african american comedians, many of which are female. Open your mind, or continure being a complete and total racist, sexist idiot. The choice is yours.
You’re not getting it. He’s saying that Hollywood can sometimes force the black woman stereotype attitude in certain movies, especially comedies. Although, Aisha Tyler would be great if they were looking in that direction, she definitely couldn’t be forced to act like that
Since I want him in more comedies I am going to Jon Hamm, then I think a female would be fun so Jennifer Lawrence, Zachary Quinto for the nerdy role maybe play Egon’s son and then maybe Jay Pharoah.
awesome. Carrying on the AMC/SNL love!
I’d stiçk with the guys who specialize in today’s comedy. I’d keep Glover, as he’s an excellent choice. I’d also go with Jay Baruschel, Jonah Hill, and Jason Segel.
Love those choices. I’m all in on anything with Segel, Hill I’m becoming so-so on, but I’m not sure why because I enjoy everything he’s in. As long as it’s not Vaughn, Ferrell, Rudd, etc. Ready for some newer blood. I know Olyphant is not known for comedy but if you see that guy on Conan or any talk show setting he is hilarious. He’s definitely got the comedic chops. And we know Hader’s schedule just free up!
Shoot cast me give let me have a try at it.
Wasn’t Michael Cera rumored for this at one point? Glad that ship has sailed.
I could see Jake Johnson as a Ghostbuster.
YES!! I officially change my lineup, swapping anyone for Nick Miller. He needs a breakout role. Great call!
I think Jake Johnson was an inspired choice and could be brilliant as the sarcastic but blue-collar character that Winston once filled.
Donald Glover can play that childlike innocence to a tee and would be great as a new Ray.
I’d like to nominate Emma Stone because her comedy chops are outstanding, and we need a female Ghostbuster you guys. She could totally fill a Peter Venkman kind of role if they played it right.
I kind of love the idea of Jay Baruschel coming in as an Egon character, honestly. I think he could pull it off in a very awkward nu-nerdy kind of way.
Baruchel. Stone. Johnson. Glover. I can see the poster now. Brilliant!
An all ginger cast would be great too…Bill Burr, Louis C.K., Simon Pegg and Zack Ward (maybe Carrot Top in place of Ward)
That’s remarkable. Bill Burr is awesome in Breaking Bad, so he’s fine by me!
Kevin Smith, Chris Hardwick, Marc Maron, Colt Cabana. With their assistant/secretary Aisha Tyler.
Where else are you going to get free reign to talk about ghosts in 2013? PodBusters!
I was wondering where you were going with that cast! Maron’s got quite the head of steam going right now, parlaying the podcast into a IFC show. Who says there’s no money in podcasting?!
I like the Olyphant pick- he’s amazing in Justified. I keeping hearing Glover is a geeks’ geek, but I’m not familiar w his work since I dont watch Community. Hader works, fits the SNL motif set in the originals
Clark Duke- Filling in as Blue Collar Winston Zeddemore’s Replacement, I’d cast Donald Glover as a cocksure Venkman,type. Ray’s dynamic could be filled by Jonah Hill, or Max from Happy Endings… as for Scientist’s Scientist Egon, Jay Baruchel would be a homerun, as would Michael Cera . I’d cast Alison Brie as the child of Louis and Janine, now a head scientist and atom smasher/ neutron scientist person.
Have Wil Arnett as Walter Peck’s replacement/as a callback role. Oscar would would be played by Daniel Radcliffe. I have no idea what
Love em all. Thanks for the extended analysis and supporting evidence!
Everyone has great picks, allow me to try something different:
Jon Heder
Danny McBride
Joel McHale
Paul Rudd
Assistant: Katherine Heigl
I’m down for anything with McBride.
Even More different-er
Zachary Levi
Jim Gaffigan
Taran Killam
Aziz Ansari
Assistant: Olivia Munn
Killam IS gonna be the next big thing. Good call. I could see Munn getting attached to this too.
Taran Killam Good to see I’m not the only on believing in him … he makes me laugh, I could definitely see him suiting up in a movie like that … or atleast be someone who the baddie tricked into helping him.
Munn would be great as one of the four … need a female buster.
Spike Lee,
Tia Carrera,
Art Bell,
Mike Nelson.
No others will do.
Well, since you said so, BOOK IT!
Here are my four:
Hader
Olyphant
Jay Pharoah
Bradley Cooper
Assistant: Anna Kendrick or Emma Stone
Why are you guys skewing so old?
Murray was 34, Ramis was 40, Aykroyd was 32 in the original. Most of the picks I’ve seen here are younger than that, besides Rudd.
Anna Kendrick is a GREAT call, she’s got that same cute/hot appeal that Annie Potts had back then.
Now that I think about it, I would take Cooper out and put John Krasinski in his place. I think he could be great with the right group around him.
seriously, just fill it with actors and actresses from AMC shows. They’re all great. Hendricks as the Annie Potts-type role. Darryl Dixon as a Ghostbuster.
Would like to see them try and follow what’s going down in the IDW comics right now. New team consists of three woman and a man. You can probably rewrite Janine Melnitz if Annie Potts can’t do it or is deemed “too old”…
http://media.ideaanddesignworks.com/idw/covers/g/ghostbusters/ghostbusters_2013/NewGhostbusters_Promo_Imagec454e3.jpg
Ooh I like that idea a lot. All of these comments have me regretting my all-male team!
I’ve had my personal GB reboot cast set for a while now, basing the actors on the mostly female team of the new ongoing comic series.
Janine Melnitz – Emma Stone
Agent Melanie Ortiz – Cobie Smulders
Kylie Griffin – Aubrey Plaza
Ron Alexander – Aaron Paul
Man, that would be a freaking amazing cast. Well done.
the all new cast for ghostbusters 3 that i would like to see in the new movie are ben affleck,matt damon,chris hemsworth and chris rock.
nice! Thanks for leaving a comment!
I think some people here are missing the point. I read somewhere that the new movie will be much like the recently (in the last several years) released Ghostbusters video game. Where the original Ghostbusters are still at it, but getting too old to be running around carrying particle accelerators on their backs, so they hire a few “newbies” to train. I think the ideas that you’re “re-casting” certain parts or character types may be missing the mark here. That being said, my new Ghostbuster line up would be:
Tim Olyphant (’cause I love the suggestion and never would’ve thought of it)
James Franco
Ellen Page
Danni Pudi
also, I think Aisha Tyler needs to be in there somewhere. I’m ashamed that I forgot her.
Slightly modified version of AdamS25’s cast
Bill Hader
Seth Rogen
Jay Burechel
Donald Glover
Assistant: Anna Kendrick or Emma Stone
My dream cast (with original parallels)
Venkman – Paul Rudd or Vince Vaughn
Stantz – I do like Hader for this role, but also Woody Harrelson.
Egon – This is somewhere they could go female, and if so, Cobie Smulders, Felicia Day, or Judy Greer. If they stick with male, Jay Baruchel, David Cross, or John C. Reily.
Winston – What I liked from the original about Winston was that he was just a dude, not a scientist. He was a blue-collar guy looking for a job, and had the balls to hunt ghosts. They don’t need a super funny guy here. Michael Jai White, Anthony Mackie
Louis – Jon Benjamin, Charlie Day
Assistant – Aubrey Plaza, Ellen Page
Plaza or Page as Janine would be amazing! I think they are going to go more sequel than reboot though, so the original actors would play the original characters, and the casting would be for new characters (younger Ghostbusters to take the reins from the originals)
Jack black, ben stiller, Jonah hill, Brandon Jackson
jack black would soo be perfect as a ghostbuster hes funny lovable and nerdy i also could see ben stiller in to he was great in tropic thunder and why not kevin james he’s another lovable actor that would be perfect as the nice ghostbuster just like ray plus his wight could be very funny for certain scenes just think mall cop i think we need nerdy actors for this to fly and there is gonna be a female but i dont know who lol
Great ..potential…cast…here!!!!
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…as…a…comedy….but…with….some…truly…eerie…moments…
GET…the…Ghosts…..to…movie…With…the…weird…”camera tricks”…
…like…in…the…movie…..Gothika……. :)))
…This..would..be..scary…then..throw…..lots…of….Comedy…in…to….ease..the…
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scares!!!!
I love it! Question about the format of your comment? Is there a tech reason for it? Very unique. Wondering if there is something to it.
1. Charlie Day
2. Eddie Kaye Thomas
3. Kal Penn
4. James Franco
Female Lead: Isla Fisher
Make it happen!
I’d love to see that happen! Thanks for the comment!
first off they need to have a girl in there change things up a bit all guy cast is boring already been there done that you know
agree 100%. Thanks for the comment!
The cast I came up with a few years ago were:
Seth Rogen for Ray
Ryan Renolds for Peter
Sasha Cohen for Egon
Mos Def for Winston
Those are good- and perhaps what Ryan Reynolds needs is to be part of an ensemble (like he was in Blade Trinity) as opposed to headlining these big budget summer films.
Fred Armisen
Toks Olagundoye
Seth Rogen
Ariel Tweto
Bruce Willis
Owen Wilson
What about Matthew Gray Gubler (from Criminal Minds)?
I don’t watch Criminal Minds, but after a quick peek at his IMDB page I could see that. Thanks for the comment!
I think bill hader is a given. I’m gonna throw in Craig Robinson and if Jonah hill has to be included, ……slimmer.
Also directed by Tim and Eric with the villain being a ghostly Louis ck
I’d be there opening night
my cast i would say.
ben stiller
kevin james
jack black
owen wilson
and
leslie mann
their going with 5 this time 4 male 1 female its already been said by dan aykroyd who’s setting everything up
I can dig that