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When I heard the upcoming (now delayed) Ghostbusters video game would be standing in for any Ghostbusters movie sequel my heart sank. Growing up Ghostbusters got significant play. I didn't even have a real copy - I had a version recorded off TV with 80s commercials thrown in. Needless to say I'm a big fan of the Hudson-Aykroyd-Murray-Ramis combo. They work fantastically well together and even if a walking, music-blaring Statue of Liberty comes across as cheesey in hindsight, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man reigns supreme in the land of Gigantic Foes (sorry Godzilla and Mothra).

The new news of a Ghostbuster sequel earns some street cred thanks to the writers being attached to a current Ramis project. With Sony poised to sign the original thespians after the script is done, my hopes are high. Of course the operative phrase here was "after the script is done". Neither Murray nor Hudson nor Aykroyd have given any indication that this is going to happen. All we have is the admirable persistence of Ramis.

My one qualm? Ramis and Aykroyd won't be writing the third. Instead we've got Office co-executive producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky filling in. It dims my excitement - but only slightly.

But it does raise one question: will this be another Indiana Jones? The Ghostbusters have seen a similarly long retirement since their last episode and it does beg the question if the quartet is up to snuff for the movie. After all, did you see Ramis in Knocked Up? The man's gotten quite a bit out of shape. I remember a slimmer looking Egon - maybe he'll pull a Bale and get into shape. Maybe not. Maybe that'll be part of the humor. Who knows.

Either way I can't begin to express my glee that we'll no longer need to rely solely on a video game for the continuation of the Ghostbusters saga.

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