From the Brow of Zeus

There's rumor over at Dead Central.

It starts off like a dream:

According to our source all four Ghostbusters -- Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson -- have agreed to return to the franchise.

But then the dream girl rips off her face, revealing the Freddy Kruger beneath:

Apparently the ‘Busters will be handing over their proton packs to Seth Rogan and the crew from 40 Year Old Virgin!

A great man once said --

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Look, humor is subjective. Everyone is entitled to their own taste in comedy, provided said comedy wasn't squeezed out by one Judd Apatow.

Judd Apatow -- I just don't like him. I'm not impressed with his movies. (Update: Okay, glancing at IMDB, he's actually produced a lot of fine comedies. Until now I had always assocaited him with Superbad and The 40 Year Old Virgin, but Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Anchorman are some of my favorites.) Steve Carell hasn't made me laugh since Jim Carrey was pulling his strings in Bruce Almighty, and Jonah Hill and Seth Rogan look like some shrewd Hollywood types tried to clone Napoleon Dynamite and kept them in the tanks too long.

Dread Central actually tried to put a positive spin on things:

Some may roll their eyes at this, but think about it; these guys are doing the same thing Murray, Ramis, Ivan Reitman, John Candy and their whole crew did back in the 80’s, churning out comedy after comedy, so it makes sense they’d take over these reins as well.

Rob Schneider churns out comedy after comedy. Let's give him the series! He can form a super team, along with Dane Cook and the Blue Collar Comedy Team and together they can prove that when it comes to comedy, staggering, inexplicable success is more important than actually being funny.

Ghostbusters is my favorite movie. Seriously. I grew up wanting to be a Ghostbuster. The Sega Master System game is one of my all-time favorites (open-world, car-based, mission objectives -- it's Ghost Theft Auto!) I own a Ghostbusters halloween costume. (Not that one.) I had a battery-powered proton pack that projected ghosts on my wall. There's nothing with the Ghostbusters logo stamped on it that I don't like.

But this?


Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. That's what a Seth Rogen Ghostbusters 3 would be like.

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