I’m sure you’ve got one of these movies too.

It’s a movie that you’ve watched over and over again throughout your life. You can recall a scene, a quote or something the characters do. For me, one of those movies is “Ghostbusters.“

Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman: (when asked where do these stairs go) “They go up.”

Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Ray Stanz: “Listen….do you smell something?”

Harold Ramis as Dr. Egon Spengler: “Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.”

Ernie Hudson as Winston Zedmore: “Ray, if somebody asks you if you’re a god, you say YES!.”

To me, every line is a classic. That is why I’ pretty excited about some news over the weekend when Dan Aykroyd said that Ghostbusters 3 is a go. Whether Bill Murray is in on the show is still questionable, but it sounds like production work will start next spring.

Here’s the big problem. It’s a sequel.

True, but there is a sometimes exception to the sequel rule that if the films have a significant spacing between them, it can work. It doesn’t always work. Consider Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, or any of the Star Wars prequels.

There are occasions where it does work. Consider Aliens, the sequel that came out seven years after Alien. Terminator 2 came out seven years after the original.

Maybe it’s actually a seven year rule. In that case we’re in trouble. It’ll be 13 years since the flop that was Ghostbusters II. Maybe it’ll make it two times better. I don’t care. I want to see it.