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Year One Troubles Ghostbusters


29 April 2010

According to recent reports, work on Ghostbusters 3 is being scuppered by Dr Venkman himself, Bill Murray, atleast that's what's being said. Bill on the other hand has something very different to say it seems part of the recent trouble afflicting the on/off, stop/start, are they/aren't they second sequel, is the under-performance of Year One, Harold Ramis' 2009 comedy disappointment.

Bill goes on to say  "I actually heard people like, young people that really heard of the movie when they were kids and I thought, 'You know, maybe I should just do it. Maybe it'd be fun to do?' Because the guys are funny and I miss Rick Moranis (Louis Tully) and Annie Potts (Janine Melnitz) and Danny Aykroyd (Dr. Raymond Stantz). Those are people that were really, you know, I miss them. I think that's really a big part of it." 

"You know, it's really the studio starts this stuff," Murray explained. "They start saying 'Ghostbusters.' They want to do it and it's really the world of sequels and bringing these things back again, and then some wiseacre said, 'Hey, we got a couple of new writers who are going to write something.' And I thought, 'Oh, well, maybe there'll be some writers' and there was always this joke, sort of a half-true, half-joke thing like, 'Well, I'll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.' That was my joke, you know?"

He continued: "So supposedly someone was writing a script where I actually got killed in the first reel and became a ghost, which I thought, 'Well, that's kind of clever anyway.' But then these guys that were supposedly the writers that were going to do it, they wrote a film ('Year One') that came out and people saw the film and went 'We're not going to do it after all, are we?' So it's just a kind of a dreamy thing. They want to create a new generation of Ghostbusters, you know? They'd just like us to pass the torch."

The 59-year-old actor - who played Dr. Peter Venkman in the 1984 and 1989 instalments of the comedy action movie - admits a reunion could be on the cards, but no specific plans are in place.

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