The Ghostbusters franchise is going to have a big year. Along with the all-female reboot announced earlier this year, Sony has revealed an action-centric comedy counterpart starring Channing Tatum, and written by Mission: Impossible 5 scribe Drew Pearce.
The company is simultaneously forming GhostCorps, a new production company headed up by Ghostbusters alum Ivan Reitman and Dan Aykroyd. All about that marketing, people!
In a statement to Deadline, Reitman explains, “We want to expand the Ghostbusters universe in ways that will include different films, TV shows, merchandise, all things that are part of modern filmed entertainment… This is a branded entertainment, a scary supernatural premise mixed with comedy. Paul Feig’s film will be the first version of that, shooting in June to come out in July 2016. He’s got four of the funniest women in the world, and there will be other surprises to come. The second film has a wonderful idea that builds on that. Drew will start writing and the hope is to be ready for the Russo Brothers’ next window next summer to shoot, with the movie coming out the following year. It’s just the beginning of what I hope will be a lot of wonderful movies.”
Sounds pretty sweet to us, as long as Tatum gets to be a ghost hunter.
[H/T: Deadline]
