Two writers from the US version of The Office have been recruited to write a third instalment of Ghostbusters, according to trade newspaper Variety.Lee Eisenberg and
Gene Stupnitsky's hiring is seen as a sure sign the long-mooted comedy will finally be made.
Ghostbusters and its 1989 sequel saw
Bill Murray,
Dan Aykroyd and
Harold Ramis as bumbling scientists who rid New York of paranormal threats.
It is hoped the new film will reunite the original cast.
Columbia Pictures has declined to comment on whether a third Ghostbusters was in development, Variety reported.
But director
John Landis, who worked with Aykroyd on The Blues Brothers and Trading Places, has said the film would definitely be made.
"I'm not involved but I know it's happening," he told the BBC News website at the Venice Film Festival.
Eisenberg and Stupnitsky recently collaborated with Ramis on the script for his new film
Year One.
Last year the original Ghostbusters cast signed up to lend their faces and voices to a computer game based on the hit film series.
The game's storyline was being written by stars Aykroyd (Ray Stanz) and Harold Ramis (Egon Spengler), who also scripted the first two films.
But the game's future was thrown into doubt when publisher Activision announced it would not be releasing the finished product.
Developers Vivendi insisted the game had not been canceled, and that it would be published by another company.
* Pinched from the BBC Entertainment News site, 05/09/2008
Recent reports suggested bosses at Columbia - the studio behind the first two movies in 1984 and 1989 - were lining up Seth Rogen, Steve Carell and Paul Rudd to join original stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson in a new movie.
