Oct 15 2009 Bill Murray Still Not That Hot on 'Ghostbusters 3'
Does the promise of a Ghostbusters 3 fill you with the same emotional mix of childlike excitement and fear of failure that you get when you realize a girl will actually sleep with you? (Is that just me?) Worry less, worrier: we have a self-appointed protector of the Ghostbusters legacy.
In this brief red carpet interview with Bill Murray, he reveals that he's not as on-board as Harold Ramis would like us to believe. He says he won't commit to anything until he reads a script, and even then it has to be good--better than mediocre Ghostbusters 2 good--before he'll consider it. Also, I think he attempted to make a reference to Snood:
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Jul 30 2009 How About if 'Ghostbusters' Was Made in 1954? Here's That
Well done, sir. Next can we get Ghostbusters 1894? I guess it would just be 30 seconds of a guy flexing and posing with a proton pack.
(via Cinematical)
May 27 2009 What Are You Doing, Ray?
Dan Aykroyd, I'm begging you now, please don't ruin Ghostbusters. I watched Ghostbusters 2 for the first time in years this weekend, and although it certainly had its share of walking-Statue-of-Liberty-controlled-by-Nintendo-controller and characters-somehow-in-the-Renaissance-painting-at-the-end moments that had me rolling my eyes, I wouldn't say it ruined Ghostbusters. It just didn't help Ghostbusters very much, and now the series is in a dangerous spot. The third film is going to be the make-or-break factor deciding if Ghostbusters will be looked back on as great-though-uneven franchise or a single great movie with some increasingly ill-conceived follow-ups.
I'd love to believe Ghostbusters 3 could still somehow be great, but then Dan Aykroyd says this to The Guardian:
There'll be a whole new generation that has to be trained and a leader that you'll all love when you meet her," says Aykroyd. "There'll be lots of cadets, boys and girls who'll be learning how to use the neuron splitter and the inter-planet interceptor - new tools to enable them to slip from dimension to dimension."
The inter-planet interceptor, a new tool that enables them to slip from dimension to dimension. Oh, brother. Obviously I have no idea how that might play out in the script or on screen, but that sounds terrible. That's sounds like one of the lesser episodes of the Ghostbusters cartoon. "Slimer runs away from home and back to Dimension Ghost, and the guys have to use Egon's inter-planet interceptor to teleport over there and save Slimer from the ghost bullies that won't accept him being a friend-of-humans." I'm pretty sure that was an episode.
Anyway, please don't ruin Ghostbusters. That's all.
May 20 2009 'Ghostbusters 3' Has Sigourney Weaver, Maybe Some Babes
Still no word on which historical landmark will come to life with the aid of ectoplasm and Jackie Wilson, but there is some news on the Ghostbusters 3 front. Dan Aykroyd talked to the LA Times Hero Complex about the project's development, and had these updates:
- Sigourney Weaver has finally signed on, joining Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, and longtime holdout Bill Murray.
- Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, however, is most likely not in; Aykroyd hopes Ramis, who directed Groundhog Day and the upcoming Year One, might take the helm.
- Aykroyd is looking forward to Ghostbusters 3 serving as a "passing-of-the-torch" film, introducing a five-member next generation team, specifically mentioning Alyssa Milano and Eliza Dushku. In other word, Aykroyd thinks ghosts should be busted by hot babes and/or is under the misguided impression that calling Alyssa Milano and Eliza Dushku "amazing" might get him laid with them.
- The film "could be in production by winter."
Questions still unanswered:
- Will Rick Moranis's spastic Louis Tully return? Annie Potts?
- Will the next generation of Ghostbusters have to face the dickless Walter Peck?
- Will there ever be a better Ghostbusters soundtrack song than Bobby Brown's "On Our Own"?
- How would destroying the Vigo the Carpathian painting at the end of Ghosbusters 2 possibly result in a new, Renaissance-style painting of the Ghostbusters team in period garb? I'll suspend my disbelief for the walking Statue of Liberty, but that's just nuts.
Topping "On Our Own" is clearly impossible, but I'd really love some answers to the rest of my questions.
May 7 2009 It's Like a YouTube Mash-Up With Reading Instead of Video!
With Ghostbusters 3 on the horizon and The Limits of Control being called tedious and indulgent, this McSweeney's article, "Jim Jarmusch's Notes for a Ghostbusters Sequel," is even more relevant today than when it was written in 2005. So don't think I'm lazily posting a 4-year-old article just because someone named Jessica sent it in (thanks, Jessica), I'd never seen it before, and I thought it was funny. No, I've been holding onto this thing for years waiting for perfect timing, which is now.
Apr 14 2009 'Ghostbusters 3' to Have Boys, Girls
I'm trying to hard to remain optimistic about Ghostbusters 3. It's all I have. So please, Dan Aykroyd, stop saying vague, worrying things like this:
“I know we’ll make that happen. But there will be a whole new generation that has to be trained, and that whole new generation will be led by an individual who you’ll all love when you meet him but I’m not going to tell you anything yet.”“They’ll be lots of cadets, boys and girls, who’ll be learning how to use the psychotron, the accelerators and all the new stuff, the neuron splitter, which is going to be the interplaner, interceptor and all these great tools that they’re going to have, to flip from dimension to dimension,” Aykroyd explained.
God, I pray he means 20-somethings, and is only referring to them as "boys and girls" because he's old. Can you imagine Ghostbusters with kids?
Mar 2 2009 Judd Apatow's 'Ghostbusters'
Looks like Judd Apatow will be adding Ghostbusters 3 to the sometimes inconsistent line-up of Pineapple Express, Drillbit Taylor, Knocked Up and others. Apatow Productions is officially attached to produce the third G. Busters film:
Judd Apatow's name has been attached the rumors about Ghostbusters 3 since they first began, with all reports saying he would be the producer for the film written by The Office writers Lee Eisenberg and Greg Stupnitsky. Now the production has gotten so close to actually happening that Production Weekly is listing it-- and wouldn't you know, Apatow Productions is right there in charge.
Does this mean the trailers will triumphantly announce that Ghostbusters 3 is "from the guys who brought you The 40-Year-Old Virgin"? Because the far more impressive part is still that it's '"from the guys who were the Ghostbusters--even Bill Murray, I shit you not!" I don't think other claim should attempt to usurp how unbelievable and possibly tragic that is.
Apatow Productions Officially In Charge Of Ghostbusters 3 [CinemaBlend]
Sep 8 2008 Harold Ramis Gives 'Ghostbusters 3' Update, Understands Email
Harold Ramis emailed Chicago Tribune writer Mark Caro confirming that Ghostbusters 3 is being made, and suggesting we'll probably see some Apatowians involved, as is the likelihood in every modern comedy:
yes, columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my year one writing partners, gene stupnitsky and lee eisenberg. judd apatow is co-producing year one and has made several other films for sony, so of course the studio is hoping to tap into some of the same acting talent. aykroyd, ivan reitman and i are consulting at this point, and according to dan, bill murray is willing to be involved on some level. he did record his dialogue for the new ghostbusters video game, as did danny and i, and ernie hudson. the concept is that the old ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity. not much else to say at this point. everyone is confident a decent script can be written and i guess we'll take it from there. best, harold
Yeah, Bill Murray, you'd better be involved "on some level." You were in Garfield. You were in Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kittes. You were in Osmosis Jones. You were in Get Smart. You were in Larger Than Life. As much as I don't want there to be a third Ghostbusters, you'd better be in a third Ghostbusters, because you definitely aren't better than that.
Sep 5 2008 'Ghostbusters 3' is Actually Happening?
Ghostbusters, the film voted most-present in my nascent life by my VCR, had been haunted (wink!) by whispers of a second sequel for years, with rumored storylines ranging from a passing of the mantle story to a fully-CGI trip to the depths of Hell. But now, for the first time, fairly official news has finally surfaced, with Columbia reportedly hiring The Office co-executive producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to work on the script. From Variety:
[Columbia Pictures] has set "The Office" co-exec producers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to write a script for a film designed to bring back together the original cast of Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson.The scribes just wrote "Year One," a comedy that was directed by Ramis. Ramis with Aykroyd wrote the first two installments of the films. Ivan Reitman directed both the 1984 original and the sequel that was released in 1989. The close proximity between the writers and original Ghostbuster Ramis is evidence that the ghost chasers have sparked to the idea of returning.
Guys, just leave it. As much as I love Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II is already, at best, fun but forgivably flawed, particularly once you remember how it ends. The image of Vigo is somehow replaced by a Renaissance-style painting of the Ghostbusters, in togas, making irreverent faces? Even at seven that had me rolling my eyes. We don't need more of this.
Admittedly, writers for The Office are probably some of the best people you could get to work on something of this importance, but at the same time, no. This isn't their burden to bear. If someone is going to do this, I want it to be the original writers, Aykroyd and Ramis, for better or worse (definitely worse). The point is, you wouldn't yank the fishing pole from your grandpa's hands just because he's old and too weak to reel in the fish, would you? No. You let him struggle with it until he either gives up or drops the pole in the water, then you lie to him and say it was probably just stuck on a tire or something. So seriously, guys, leave it.
That being said, who else can't wait for this new Ghostbusters movie, huh?
