Dan Aykroyd wants to make two more sequels after Ghostbusters 3
"Man-hell-ttan, and the Ghostbusters in hell, would be so solid, but we gotta get maybe one or two made before that. But, oh, wow... I wrote that with Tom Davis, my writing partner, recently deceased, who wrote Coneheads with me and stuff on Saturday Night Live. There's classic Tom Davis lines and funny stuff in there, really it's probably the most humorous of all the Ghostbusters scripts that have generated in that last little while. But we'll put the humor into this next one. It's gotta be funny, or it's not worth doing. It can be scary, it can be Ghostbusters, it can be the new franchise, the new people, but if it's not funny ... Wait a minute, it started as a comedy. Let's make sure there's laughs and no laugh unturned and that we really make that our priority, to make it funny and exciting, but mainly funny."
The project has had quite the tumultuous history, with The Office scribes Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg writing a screenplay that Bill Murray reportedly hated. We reported in July that Etan Cohen is the latest to tackle the script. However, despite being the project's biggest cheerleader, Dan Aykroyd revealed he will walk away if Sony doesn't make a move soon.
"Now, this would add quite a bump to Sony's bottom line, quite a bump. If they make this movie, in its current shape, they would be looking at a pretty hefty, nine-figure return. And so I'm hoping they get on to move it, but if they don't, I have multiple trains. I've got tracks six, seven, and nine, and that's four. I'll be moving on to other things, as will Ivan, by the way. We can't wait forever. And now's the time to tell the picture company, and I'd say this quite publicly, it's time now to sit down and make this movie, or you will lose your main principals, and you won't be able to make it without us, because we have rights, and now is time to make the movie..."
Of course, even if the movie does eventually happen, it will be without Bill Murray, who left the project in August. However, Dan Aykroyd did say there is an opening in the script, if the actor has a change of heart.
Ghostbusters 3 is in development and stars Sigourney Weaver, Anna Faris, Eliza Dushku, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson. The film is directed by Ivan Reitman.
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Monkeyiron 2.0
wow getting c*cky art we Yogi
6 months agoby @monkeyiron2-0Flag
LuxoIII
Don't care.
6 months agoby @brady1138Flag
SpaceCowboy
By the 5th one the original cast will become the ghosts that need busting.
6 months agoby @SpaceCowboyFlag
ROFLitschristian
And so it begins...
6 months agoby @ROFLitschristianFlag
Bawnian©-Dexeus
Don't care and Crystal Skull was awesome
6 months agoby @bawnian-dexeusFlag
The Cryptkeeper: Resurrected
Man I don't think they should do a 3, much less a 4 and 5.
6 months agoby @cryptFlag
Jun_Arta
LOL. I doubt if this movie will do well in the box-office.... but let's just hope I'm wrong.
6 months agoby @Jun-ArtaFlag
The Real Goku
Who cares
6 months agoby @therealGokuFlag
The Knight Has Risen
Don't make promises you can't keep, goddamnit!
6 months agoby @thehost91Flag
skywise
At this point i really dont care. If it gets made great, if not...oh well.
6 months agoby @skywiseFlag
gandoff2169
@ejk1 I agree. Either make it or just let it die... No doubt in 5 years, we may see them Remake GB anyway... lol
6 months agoby @gandoff2169Flag
ejk1
@gandoff2169 I just want them to let it go already. It's pointless.
6 months agoby @ejk1Flag
gandoff2169
@ejk1 They had multiple scrips, but Murray was holding them up with if he would do it and such. Many re-writes to get his OK, ended with a doubt it form him. All other main actors, and the director is on board. Only casting the other new parts and getting the studio to green light for the money is all needed. So, there is a director, a story, and most of the cast. I do also think, they may have even wrote characters for specific actors to do it. Just not ever named any. @jimthar GB 2 was not that bad. Was no where near as good as one, but 99% of all sequels are not up to the level the first movie is. My issue is, they took so long between 1 and 2, that the time before they do 3 is killing the franchise. I do not seeing GB become a great movie on any level with out Murray who is a major key role in all GB related stories, but it the movie or the animation shows.
In the end, GB 3 may not even get made. But if they do, I want Murray in it for one, which may not happen. And two, the new cast to be set up the best way to carry the story for the future. I love GB and is one of the five things I hold dear from my childhood. He-Man, Thundercats,TMNT, Transfromers, and GhostBusters. Those five was my biggest things in my life. And would love nothing more then to see GB continue on. It could, and would easily be done with the right cast. For what I have hear, Murray is why it was so long between GB 1 and 2, then as we all know his hold out for GB 3.
6 months agoby @gandoff2169Flag
Roberto Mata
Just let it die, and let the first film be a classic, the second not so much.
6 months agoby @Roberto-MataFlag
Dan
Whatever. Aykroyd needs to lay off whatever he's toking.
6 months agoby @dan1Flag
Jimthar
*get it
6 months agoby @jimtharFlag
Jimthar
i just dont et it. is ben over 20 years. GB2 sucked big balls and now they wanna do 3 more sequels 20-something years later?? gime a break. no desire whatsoever to see this. let it die.
6 months agoby @jimtharFlag
Ghostman
I have a feeling this will be the new Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Took years in development, only to turn out to be a disappointment.
6 months agoby @ghostmanFlag
ejk1
Really? He hasn't even gotten a complete cast, a director, or a viable story for #3. Stop living in a dream world, Aykroyd.
6 months agoby @ejk1Flag
SherlockHolmes2009
Theres no way theyll be 2 more sequels, this 3rd ones been taking too damn long. Id say it make it a trilogy and end it
6 months agoby @SherlockHolmes2009Flag