Either the Caps Lock button on Channing Tatum’s computer is stuck or he really likes to write in all capital letters. Either way, the leaked Sony emails that involve the star of one of the studio’s top franchises show that he’s got one really cool idea up his sleeve.
In email exchanges published by The Daily Beast, Tatum suggests a really cool idea for a new Ghostbusters movie. On Aug. 21, he begged Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal to put him in a Ghostbusters movie with Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt.
The email reads:
“Let us show the world The DarkSide and let us fight it with all the glory and epicness of a HUGE BATMAN BEGINS MOVIE. I know we can make this a huge franchise. Fun adventure craziness. COME OONNNN!!!”
Pascal, Columbia Pictures co-president Hannah Minghella and other executives begin to take the idea up seriously, even noting that Captain America: The Winter Soldier directors Joe and Anthony Russo want to produce it.
Minghella writes:
“So… in a curious turn of events - the Russos and Channing want to develop Ghostbusters as a vehicle for Channing and Chris Pratt to do together. The Russos, Channing and Reid have been brainstorming ideas and want to create a whole new mythology that would support multiple movies (the way that Nolan reinvented Batman). To be clear - the Russos want to produce (not direct) and while Channing and Chris are looking for a movie to do together they haven't mentioned this to him yet because they weren't sure how we'd react.”
Then, Minghella says that they could even have two Ghostbusters franchises running simultaneously - the Tatum/Russo movies and the Feig film, which will feature an all-female team. While other executives show interest in that, Pascal’s reply is just “f**kkk.”
(Of course, the only one that is being made is Feig’s film.)
Another Tatum email was published by Gawker’s Defamer, in which Tatum and the studio celebrate 22 Jump Street’s fantastic opening earlier this year. The film earned the best-ever opening for an R-rated comedy, topping Ted.
“F YOU TED !!!! SECOND OF ALLLL TIMMMMME BEEEOTCH!!!! COME ON JUMPSTREETERS WE GOT CATE BLANCHETT WIT DIS BOX OFFICE BITCHES!!!!!!!!” Tatum wrote, adding “Hahaha” over and over again.
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