The insider information about upcoming Sony
movie plans and ideas keeps on rolling out from
the massive hack that saw emails, financial
information and more leak online from the
studio’s leadership. Holders of documents from
the invasion of privacy have released a steady
stream of tidbits about some of the biggest
upcoming projects some Sony and producers
they’ve chatted with as they comb through the
data.
From tentative Ghostbusters 3 and Sinister Six
plans and the future of Men in Black and 21
Jump Street franchises to questionable
statements about Hollywood stars from Sony
Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal and
producers, we have another snippet of
information about a certain high profile actor that
falls on the positive side of talking behind
someone’s back.
Ryan Gosling, who has been namedropped as a
rumored contender for countless geek-friendly
film projects including Green Lantern, Justice
League, Suicide Squad and more, is a favorite of
Pascal according to email exchanges between
her and Gosling’s manager Ilene Feldman
uncovered by The Daily Beast.
“Ryan absolutely loved you. Said it was like speed
dating because he was late after hitting every
wrong gate on the lot. Not it should turn to
marriage. He really wants to do something with
you.”
The above is from Feldman telling (selling?)
Pascal how much Ryan Gosling apparently wants
to work with Pascal and Sony. Pascal forwarded
the message to Columbia Pictures co-president
of production Michael De Luca who responded
that the project Gosling wants is Ghostbusters 3
according to his own conversation with Feldman.
These messages are from the very beginning of
October which seem to indicate plans for the
return of the franchise are very much in flux but
that there are hopes to quickly turn it into a big
franchise. Other emails uncovered yesterday point
towards major interest from Channing
Tatum wanting to do a spinoff Ghostbusters
with Chris Pratt as well. The following from
October 3rd indicates there’s only one lead male
role in the Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot which
could be the launching point for sequels and
spinoffs like the one above for Tatum.
“There is one [male] part paul is planning. How
insane would that be… He also wants jennifer
[Lawrence] and Emma [Stone].”
The Russo brothers (who also want to produce
the new Spider-Man movies for Sony and Marvel)
may produce any such Tatum-Pratt Ghostbusters
spinoff. Amy Pascal also spoke with Feldman
around the time about her own interest in working
with Gosling on something else, naming Sinister
Six and the Steve Jobs biopic. Clearly, things
went a little downhill for Sinister Six later as we
discussed at length last week from all of the
leaked emails from November which made it
clear Pascal was a little lost when it came to the
future of the Spider-Man franchise and whether
or not she should work with Marvel Studios so
they can use the character going forward in some
sort of multi-studio deal.
At the moment, it seems everyone (except some
high-ups at Sony) wants to see Spider-Man go to
Marvel while we’re still unclear of the plans
for Ghostbusters. All signs still point towards it
(the first one, anyway) being a female-driven
relaunch ( “hard reboot” according to Paul Feig)
of the series with big name talent Emma Stone,
Jennifer Lawrence and Rebel Wilson all being
listed as potential stars.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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