Phil Lord and Chris Miller ain't afraid of saying no to Ghostbusters 3
The death of Harold Ramis, the departure of Ivan Reitman as director, and the continued dismissive sighs of Bill Murray would seem to suggest—to all but the most wild-eyed and possessed—that this is a sign for Ghostbusters 3, all right: “Going Out Of Business. ”And yet, Sony remains convinced the sequel will come, in one of the pre-chosen reboot forms. So it continues to search for other directors who are comfortable with repackaging nostalgia properties for a jaded audience—hence its recent pursuit of Phil Lord and Chris Miller, whose work on 21 Jump Street and The Lego Movie turned similarly cheap ideas into surprise successes. But there has to be a limit, and The Wrap’s Jeff Sneider says Ghostbusters 3 may have been it.