New Ghostbusters film to be directed by Ivan Reitman's son, Jason

“I’ve always thought of myself as the first Ghostbusters fan, when I was a 6-year-old visiting the set [of the 1984 film]," he told Entertainment Weekly. "I wanted to make a movie for all the other fans.“

He has insisted however that this is not a reboot of the original, describing it as "the next chapter in the original franchise. It is not a reboot.”

It has not been announced yet whether any of the original cast (Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson and Dan Aykroyd - Jewish filmmaker and actor Howard Ramis died in 2014) will be in the new film, which is set in the present day.

The 1984 supernatural comedy, written by stars Dan Ackroyd and Howard Ramis, was the highest grossing film of its time.