RichardLess wrote: ↑March 28th, 2024, 1:12 amIf their last name is Spengler then that makes the whole thing even worse. It would mean Egon married and no. Just…no.
Not necessarily. It just means the mom, who Callie has never mentioned, must have been less present than Egon. Maybe she died in childbirth, which is the only explanation that immediately comes to mind where she'd be mad at Egon for being absent but not the mysterious mother.
RichardLess wrote: ↑March 28th, 2024, 1:12 amWould those people go anywhere near this franchise? It depends. It’s not nearly as simple as you make it out to be. Gosling seems to do what he wants & doesn’t care much about perception. Kevin Hart has had a stalling career for a few years. He’s do it for sure for the right $. Stephen Merchant isn’t busy. He isn’t ungettable. He did Logan. I think if you asked them “Do you want to do a Ghostbusters movie” they’d probably say no. But with a great script and a talented director? Anything’s possible. And oh yeah. Money. That never hurts.
Yeah, well, money's the big thing, and I think the bigger hurdle is that if Sony proceeds with more
Ghostbusters content, they're going to want to spend less, not more. Doubly so given that one of their biggest and most successful 2023 releases was a $25m rom-com (and they had another buzzy, albeit less successful one earlier in the year, which coincidentally was by the guys who almost wrote
Ghostbusters 3).
I'm also not sure where you get the idea that Hart's career is suffering recently. I'm not saying I agree with it, but I think Hart actually has the kind of career that the contemporary industry looks at as ideal. He's more like a brand than a person, and people know him and his brand. His movies don't even have to be huge hits because half of them go to streaming now, where they care about BS metrics like impressions and whatnot. He's definitely not what one would've thought of as a movie star 25 years ago, but I suspect the way things are now, credit card commercials are actually considered a good thing.
In any case, I would suggest we look back at the information from the leaks, at the 2014 list of people Sony shopped
Ghostbusters to before they went the reboot route, and all of those comedy directors and actors who were resistant to the idea of jumping on board, and that was back when Sony
was planning on spending $150-$200m on reviving the series, and before there was the notion that there was an especially vocal fanbase to appease or a box office trend to overcome. Frankly, I think the likelihood that major stars or filmmakers are going to hop on board just because Sony has a wheelbarrow of cash is pretty low. Jason was lucky in that jumping on
Ghostbusters was somewhat natural, and even then he got lots of accusations of nepotism and selling out. I think the likelihood that people will look at anyone major signing onto the series now as a cash grab, desperate to make up for the middling grosses of
Frozen Empire, are even higher.