While being interviewed in front of a packed house at Fantastic Fest in support of
City of Ember, Bill Murray spoke out on the recently announced
Ghostbusters 3. When asked how he felt about strapping on another proton pack and kicking in some ghost heads, Bill had this to say:
“Well, I think the wounds from
Ghostbusters 2 have healed. Supposedly they have hired two guys from
The Office to write a script. So, that could work. I think that is a good idea. Maybe they will give us a fresh look at it. I’ve always liked our characters. Our characters are funny. We had a lot of fun making the movies. The first one was really a lot of fun to make. But I worry. I think the first forty minutes of
Ghostbusters is about as funny as a movie gets. It didn’t have a lot of special effects in it. There were just a couple. It was just about those funny characters in that world. And I liked that movie. I think the first one had sixty plate shots, or something like that. The second one had hundreds. The special (effects) guys got their hands on the script early, and it was just gone. It went away. The script just went away. And it was hard to wrangle, because it was tied all around the effects. It wasn’t about the story coming first, or the characters moving through it. They are hard movies to write, and Dan really caught it with that first one. He really caught it. The characters were fun to do. I did the video game this summer, and it was fun to do it again. I found myself walking down Fifth Avenue, singing that song. And people were like, ‘God, that guy is really full of himself.’ So, there you go.”
Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg are currently at work on the
Ghostbusters 3 screenplay. If everything works out, it looks like all 4 original
Ghostbusters will be back in business.
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currently im ambivalent about this movie idea, but if bill murray winds up liking it enough to go along with it then i will at least rent the dvd when it comes out.
It's a heck of a lot better than someone carving a stupid logo over the face of the moon. That's insult to injury.
Again, good news Murray. I'm taking my kid to it...gonna raise me another Ghostbuster fanatic!
GB3, however, may or may not be. I'd love to see the gang back together... but the script and story is gonna have to be something about the thinking of retirement.. cause the boys are all OOOOLD. Rick Moranis is 55, Dan Aykroyd is 56, Bill Murray is 58, Ernie Hudson is 62, and Harold Ramis is 64. Sigourney Weaver is 59 so she can play a grandma or something haha
Maybe they can train a new set of ghostbusters to take over and make it funny as shit. IDK... i DO wanna see the gang back together... but I just don't know.
I am sorry to burst your bubble...I thought 2 was just as good as the first...of course, I was 7 when I saw 2, and 2 is considered to be more kid friendly, but I still loved it. Heck, I even have The Complete Real Ghostbusters on preorder now!
In short, I can't wait to see the gang together again.
Writers from The Office! Their humor would fit in perfectly!