Who’s Columbia Pictures gonna call? A new writer, again, for the long-gestured return of the Ghostbusters.
According to Heat Vision, Katie Dippold, who wrote Paul Feig’s female buddy action comedy The Heat, is reteaming with the director for Sony’s new Ghostbusters movie.
After years of development as a sequel with the intent to bring back the original team (Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis), script setbacks eventually led a path to focus on a new generation (think Jonah Hill). When Ramis died earlier this year and then original director Ivan Reitman left in March.
Feig came on board to rejuvenate the project back in August. But he came with a twist: the Ghostbusters would now be a female team. The site also says that the project would no longer be connected to the earlier movies but now launch a new series, although I’m unsure where this information comes from.
From where I stand, nothing is even close to set in stone until announced officially.
