Ghostbusters 3 to begin shooting in May 2011?

Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters 3 could be heading in front of cameras as early as May 2011, if new reports are to be believed.

The much-beleaguered threequel, which has yet to even receive an official greenlight, is apparently being set up by Sony to head into production May next year.

Last we heard, star/scripter Dan Aykroyd was re-writing a script from The Office scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, though Bill Murray was still branding the project a “myth” that had no hope of getting made.

According to Production Weekly , though, Sony “is planning to put Ivan Reitman‘s Ghostbusters 3 into production in May 2011”.

Does that mean Aykroyd’s submitted his draft and it’s been approved? Or are the studio just throwing a date around to keep Ghostbusters 3 in the headlines?

Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.