Ghostbusters 3 script ready: Reitman

Canadian producer and director Ivan Reitman says a solid script has been hammered out for Ghostbusters 3 and is close to becoming a reality.

Reitman, who was behind the first two films starring Dan Ackroyd, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Harold Ramis and Bill Murray, says "a very good script" for the third film has been sent to Murray, reportedly a hold-out on a sequel.

The producer said that "nothing you've read on the internet is accurate" and that Murray has yet to crack open the script.

Reitman, who has made a career directing and producing comedies includingKindergarten Cop,My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Old School andI LoveYou, Man, has said he wanted a 2011 release for Ghostbusters 3.

The first film hit screens in 1984 and concerned a team of "parapsychologists" who capture ghosts in specially made machines.

Also starring Sigourney Weaver, the debut movie was a world box office hit, raking in $291.6 million in the U.S. alone.

The follow-up in 1989 was also a hit,and spawnedtwo animated TV series.

Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, the team behind the TV series Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Office, are the third film's scriptwriters.

Sigourney Weaver divulged in 2010 that the plot has the old team coming in as mentors to a new gang of ghostbusters.