Rust City aka GB2020 aka GB3

Back in January of this year, a massive announcement was made that left a large portion of the fandom skeptical. It was announced that Sony was planning on finally making “Ghostbusters 3” and they had even found a director to make it happen.

The director was announced to be Jason Reitman, Ivan Reitman's son. Ivan directed both Ghostbusters films in the 1980s and produced the 2016 “Ghostbusters: Answer The Call”. The announcement came as a bit of a shock as the 2016 film had all but flopped in the box office and drummed up serious negative reviews and feelings from a large part of the GB fandom.

As fan's began speculating what this new film could or would entail, Jason Reitman filmed a quick teaser trailer in secret and shortly after, released it online and the internet exploded with excitement and skepticism.

Older fans still remember countless years of false promises from Sony for a third film and as the years passed, the older fans lost their faith and finally accepted that the film would never happen. So naturally when GB2020 aka Rust City was announced, immediately a large portion of the older fans were guarded and jaded and just looked at the announcement as another false promise in a long list of false promises.

Slowly over the next few months, small bits of casting rumors would be released but still, it was hard to believe the film was being made as July approached and marked just 1 year until the film would be released..... Which brings us to last night.

On August 4^th, 2019.... the biggest set leak happened. A quick 9 second video was uploaded onto YouTube of a rusted, beat up Ecto-1 being driven through the set.

Immediately, the video had my attention because I was one of the guarded and jaded aforementioned fans. But this new video, this marked something that none of the other GB3 announcements through the years had.... it had solid proof from the set that filming was indeed happening and the Ecto-1 had just arrived. (Pictures from TMZ posted below!)

I began to get chills as the sudden realization dawned on me, “Oh damn.... This..... this is actually happening....” Countless times I uttered that sentence as I stared at the screen on my phone.

This morning the Facebook groups and pages were a buzz of talk on the Ecto. Most people were super excited and happy to see it on set. Others were up in arms on how Sony had “ruined the screen used car by rusting it up!” I am going to address that bit, right now. You ready? THAT IS NOT THE SCREEN USED ECTO-1 FROM 1984! The screen used 84 Ecto is currently sitting out front of Ghost Corp on Sony's backlot. The rusted out Ecto was a replica purchased from a fan for this exact purpose.

The other things that the fans were up in arms about was the inaccuracy of the roof rack componets; IE the side ladder now being on the driver's side instead of the passenger side or the “Sniffer” being too tall. Both of those complaints are entirely moot points.... especially when you stop to think about that the Ecto-1 was replaced by the Ecto-1A in GB2.... but no one is complaining about that little fact.

After 30 years, we are finally get a true and proper sequel to our beloved franchise. Please, stop tearing the set pics apart over inaccuracies when they truly do not even matter.