Ghostbusters 3 - new stirrings on the spectral grapevine

Remember that rumour doing the rounds about a new entry in the "Ghostbusters" series  - possibly a next generation reboot featuring the likes of Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd rather than the classic Murray/Ackroyd/Ramis/Hudson quartet?

Another day, another wrinkle - word is that Columbia Pictures have hired Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky from the US incarnation of "The Office" to write a third installment in the series - they've just worked with Harold Ramis on his latest directorial project, the Jack Black-starring biblical comedy "Year One".

The thinking at this point appears to be that the classic cast are the target of this script - with it being a continuation of the established characters rather than - as is the fashion - a ground-up reboot designed to appeal to the blog generation  (wait a minute....)

You can read Empire's take here, Cinematical's story here and AICN fanbobbins here.

As much as I love the first film, enjoyed the second and eagerly anticipate the chance to get my paws on a build of the in-limbo video game, I'm sure that I'd rather entertain this film as was - there's more opportunity to deliver a flick with more contemporary effects, but the idea of FX-heavy comedy can go either way, can't it?

The Dark Knight returns. Sort Of. After A Fashion.

The corners of the internets habituated by yours truly have gone chuckle-wild and are presently LOL-ing themselves into gibbering piles of Geek over this splendidly absurd fake "Batman" script credited to everyone's least favourite A-list hack, Michael Bay.

As a glimpse at what many dwellers of the geek realm would recoil from in horror, it's certainly worth a read.

I laughed, I chuckled, but found it somewhat lacking as a pastiche - having said that, though, the bit about "we'll hack the Internets" was surely torn from an early draft of "Armageddon").