Sony Pictures has hired Tropic Thunder screenwriter Etan Cohen to rewrite the long-awaited for Ghostbusters 3, sequel to the cult-classic films.

As Variety reports:

“The Office” scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky were hired in Sept. 2008 to revive the blockbuster franchise that started in 1984 with Ivan Reitman’s “Ghostbusters.” At the time, the supernatural action-comedy was Columbia Pictures’ highest-grossing film ever, until it was beaten by “Men in Black” and then “Spider-Man.”

Sony has hired Cohen to rewrite the film, following his most recent project Men in Black III. As Variety points out, the new project is “expected to find original castmembers Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray passing the torch to a new generation of ghostbusters.”

The project has long suffered from a lack of direction, as rumors of an eventual new entry into the Ghostbusters canon have become less likely over the years. For fans of the franchise, hopefully this is a step in the right direction.

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