It’s that time once again! Here’s your monthly GHOSTBUSTERS 3 update, this time brought to you courtesy of Dan Aykroyd. Read as Mr. Aykroyd dispels Bill Murray’s recent claims that the film will never happen, all the while giving us the current status of the project. Will the film ever come to pass?
Check out what Aykroyd had to say after the break!
On Bill Murray’s recent claims:
“He was talking about the writers from Year One, and I think he was reacting to the box-office success and the general public view of the film, which in my view was a very serviceable comedy, and in the end I think they’ll make their money back. I think he was concerned that the writing on Ghostbusters 3 by these guys would not be up to standard, but I can tell you firsthand, I’m working on the script now and those two—Stupnitsky and Eisenberg, [writer-producers of The Office]—wrote Bill the comic role of a lifetime, and the new Ghostbusters and the old are all well represented in it…we have a strong first draft that Harold [Ramis] and I will take back, and I’m very excited about working on it.”
When asked if GHOSTBUSTERS 3 was another one of the rumored eighties sequels that Hollywood will never actually make, he responds:
“Look, Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial. But it has to evolve. Now [in Ghostbusters 3] my character’s eyesight is shot, I got a bad knee, a bad hip—I can’t drive that caddy anymore or lift that Psychotron Accelerator anymore, it’s too heavy. We need young legs, new minds—new Ghostbusters; so I’m in essence passing the torch to the new regime, and you know what? That’s totally okay with me.”
I can say firsthand that it would be totally okay with just about everybody. There certainly has to be some legitimacy behind GHOSTBUSTERS 3 or we wouldn’t be hearing about it so often, the real question is if the film will pan out in the long run. It sounds as if it is a mystery to just about everyone, even half of the cast. But here’s to hoping!
Source Vanity Fair, via Joblo
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