A shuffling of schedules at Paramount Pictures reveals that
the long gestating Ghostbusters III/reboot
at Sony seems to be in the cards for filming next summer. The studio is looking
to fast-track the sci-fi thriller Our
Name is Adam starring Tom Cruise (even though they’re still working out the
fine details), which means the Ivan Reitman helmed Moneyball-esque Draft Day
starring Kevin Costner will be pushed out of its window for filming. This, of
course, is not new as all the studios try to configure their tent-pole action
films when their big names stars are available. And Tom Cruise has made a lot
of money for Paramount, so it’s not a surprise they’re putting a lot of energy
and money into a big and expensive film that Adam is rumored to be. Draft
Day (a football themed film) would not be expensive, but it does carry the
name Reitman and Costner. Still, both the actor and director have a busy slate
ahead of them, which means that by bumping this film from its current position,
when a slot becomes available at a later date, both Costner and Reitman will be
too busy with other projects. Thus, it will force Paramount to shelve the
project for the foreseeable future. Costner is currently playing William
Harper, the boss of Chris Pine’s Jack
Ryan in Paramount’s reboot of the Tom Clancy spy thriller franchise (and
will most likely play same character in the adaptation of Clancy’s other spy
guy in With Out Remorse which films
in 2013 and even may get a freestanding film out of it as well, which may make
up for the loss of Draft Day) and then
it’s off to film Luc Besson’s Three Days
To Kill. And that circles us back to Ghostbusters
III. While Sony has not officially greenlighted the film or announced a
2014 release date, Ivan Reitman’s schedule indicates he’ll be helming something
at Sony in summer of 2013, with the most
likely candidate being a reboot (sans Bill Murray) of Ghostbusters, something both Sony, and in particular star/writer Dan
Ackroyd, have been wanting for at least a decade.
Back on January 20th, Warner Bros announced the Bryan Singer
fantasy film Jack The Giant Killer
was vacating its June 2012 release date. Word was that the WB worried that the film,
starring Nicholas Hoult as Jack, would get lost between DreamWorks Madagascar 3 and Disney’s Brave. Plus the delay would ensure
certain complicated visual effects to be completed and proper marketing could
be done that would ensure a better return for the studio. The film was bumped
to March 22, 2013. Now the film will go through a slight title change as well,
with it now being called Jack The Giant
Slayer.
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