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Paul Feig Crossing Streams with ‘Walking Dead’ for New ‘Ghostbusters’?
Now that Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot (or whatever you wanna call it) is finally a go, any news that trickles in is going to make waves in fandom. The all female cast may have annoyed some purists, but I’m really digging all of the changes Feig’s making so far. On the most recent episode of AMC’s Talking Dead, the filmmaker revealed a surprising source of inspiration for his take on Ghostbusters:
I will say, I was very inspired by this show. What I love is how they play with the danger, they play with the scariness, but also the idea that it’s always about gauntlet run. And that’s something, an element I want to bring to this Ghostbusters reboot is having to get through these various obstacles that are supernatural and all that. I really feed off of The Walking Dead.
While it sounds like a bizarre place to draw inspiration from, I the idea of a supernatural obstacle course in the new Ghostbusters sounds wicked fun to me. I doubt the downbeat tone of the series is going to have any influence on the film, hopefully Feig wasn’t implying that, because it would suck. But injecting the series with a little more fast-paced action could be a great move and a nice way to give the film an “updated” feel. Feig’s already mentioned his film will be scarier than the originals, beefing up the action goes right along with that.
What do you guys think?
via ScreenCrush
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are reteaming for the long-awaited 28 Years Later horror sequel trilogy, and the first film in that new trilogy now has a release date.
28 Years Later arrives in theaters on June 20, 2025 from Sony.
Jack O’Connell (Amy Winehouse: Back To Black) has joined the previously announced Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu) in the upcoming 28 Years Later.
Alex Garland will write the first film and Boyle will return to direct. Nia DaCosta (Candyman, The Marvels) will direct the second installment in the trilogy from Sony Pictures.
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer.
The original movie in 2002 starred Cillian Murphy and was written by Alex Garland and directed by Danny Boyle. In the smash hit horror film, “Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.”
A sequel, 28 Weeks Later, arrived in 2007. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo took over as director. In the sequel, which starred Jeremy Renner, “Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.”
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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