# Zach Cregger for the next Ghostbusters live-action movie.... Yes? No? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [September 25, 2026, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/zach-cregger-for-the-next-ghostbusters-live-action-movie-yes-no/219390 "2026-09-25T19:25:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rookie99](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/rookie99/32/188019_2.png) [@rookie99](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/rookie99)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/zach-cregger-for-the-next-ghostbusters-live-action-movie-yes-no/219390/21 "2026-10-11T04:07:55Z")
Zach Creggers Ghostbusters: Follow the new hire or receptionist as a normal [Ghostbusters movie](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/movies) happens in the background…ngl that sounds kind of cool. ---
**Author:** ![moviefacts](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/moviefacts/32/183676_2.png) [@moviefacts](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/moviefacts)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/zach-cregger-for-the-next-ghostbusters-live-action-movie-yes-no/219390/22 "2026-10-11T08:01:10Z")
Hence why I said spin-off. A spin-off allows you to use the universe as a jumping off point for a new story with new characters. It also gives Zach Cregger carte blanche and allows him to flex his own style within the ‘rules’ of the universe. ---
**Author:** ![kingpin](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/kingpin/32/188026_2.png) [@kingpin](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/kingpin)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 1:08pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/zach-cregger-for-the-next-ghostbusters-live-action-movie-yes-no/219390/23 "2026-10-11T13:08:16Z")
I’ll concede that there are times where a bit of a tonal shift does work to a spinoff’s advantage over the original, such as _Angel_ versus _Buffy The [Vampire](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/characters/vampire) Slayer_, _Lower Decks_ to _Star Trek: The Original Series_/_Next Generation_/_Deep Space Nine_/_Voyager_ (with the benefit being that as it’s an animated series, you can discount it if you so with), or _The Good Fight_ and the _Good Wife_. I’m still not convinced a Ghostbusters spinoff in the vein of Zach Cregger (or helmed by him), that leans more towards horror over comedy would be to the franchise’s benefit. I can see such a film or TV series appealing to fans of more hard-core horror, but would it not be at the expense of watering down what makes Ghostbusters stand apart from other supernatural or horror films? As the market is somewhat saturated with films (and to a lesser extent TV shows) in the harder/hard-core horror genre thanks to a sort of normalisation of torture ■■■■, of body horror like _Human Centipede_, and the poorest written and budgeted exampls of the genre being a dime-a-dozen, you have to work hard to really make a film in this genre stand out these days amongst its peers. Does Ghostbusters genuinely benefit from either shifting completely, or dipping its toe into this market, or would it just be trying to get in on what’s currently popular in the cultural zeitgeist? Anyway, if you want an example of why I feel Zach Cregger just isn’t a good fit for a Ghostbusters-like comedy, but is good for broader horror (though my personal jury’s still yet to review all the exhibits of his take on _Resident Evil_), is the scene where he has the zombies leaping off of the rooftops in Raccoon City. It’s a visceral and memorable scene, but you could only really do something like that with Ghosts (or ghost-possessed inanimate objects) in a Ghostbusters film (because having ghosts possessiong people and walking them off buildings to splatter into massive puddles of gore and blood is not something that would be given the green light in a [Ghostbusters movie](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/movies)), and as we’d know they’re not human bodies in this hypothetical Ghostbusters film, the scene would ultimately lose a good chunk of its heft. [Previous page](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/zach-cregger-for-the-next-ghostbusters-live-action-movie-yes-no/219390.md?page=1)