There's still no green-light, so it's still not officially definitely happening, but momentum is slowly building on Ghostbusters 3, and now Ivan Reitman, the director of parts one and two, has weighed in by confirming he will be on-board, when and if the threequel gets up and running.
Reitman also told MTV that the first draft of the script by US Office writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, has been completed, and the second draft is now being worked on. "Good work is being done," he says, "and all of us have our fingers crossed: there are some very cool things in the new draft." But he wouldn't be drawn on Sigourney Weaver's recent suggestion that Bill Murray's Peter Venkman might feature in a supernatural capacity, or that one of the next generation of ghostbusters would be Dana Barrett's son Oscar: all grown up in the twenty years since Ghostbusters 2.
Reitman says he hopes to start shooting sometime in 2010, which chimes with Harold Ramis' recent statement that the film will be released during 2011. Surely that definitive announcement can't be far off?