Every other Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a
Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!
For this recast I challenge, I wanted to revisit the '80's hit movie Ghostbusters — the first one — directed by Ivan Reitman (father of
Juno director Jason Reitman) and starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, and Sigourney Weaver.
Motivated by the success of other classic movies-turned-video games (Scarface, The Godfather),
Sony has inked a deal to make the campy
Ghostbusters franchise into a video game. What's more, not only will all four of the main movie guys (Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray, and Harold Ramis) and some of the supporting actors (William Atherton, Annie Potts) be lending their voices and likeness to the game, but Akroyd and Ramis will also be writing a story for it.
Aykroyd and Ramis' story will take place in the early '90s, after
Ghostbusters II, "during a new ghoul invasion of New York City."
What the Deal Is:
One of my favorite comedic actors ever,
Bill Murray will star in an adaptation of the young adult novel
The City of Ember.
Why This Might Be Awesome:
The film adaptation is being done by Caroline Thompson who co-wrote the scripts for
Edward Scissorhands and
The Nightmare Before Christmas. Plus, the plot description is as follows:
The script [is] about an insular, dark place where the only light comes from street lamps.
David Letterman celebrates 25 years in late-night television tonight, and whether you love the man or loathe him, you have to admit he's had some pretty great moments over the years. Quite a few have involved Bill Murray, who was Letterman's first guest on his old NBC show in 1982 and quickly became a regular,
getting heckled by a rowdy production assistant in the Groundhog Day era and
talking about moisturizer pre-Ghostbusters II.
Murray will be back tonight to help Letterman mark his silver anniversary.
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