Mon Oct 6, 2008 4:37PM2 comments ›
Mon Oct 6, 2008 — by Robert Greenberger
Bill Murray up for 'Ghostbusters 3'
He Talks What Might have Been
Actor Bill Murray spoke at a New York news conference for City of Ember and repeated his interest in appearing in Ghostbusters 3.
The comedian also said that a script is moving forward at the moment. "There's two fellows from The Office that are writing a script, but I've yet to see it. And I'm more involved with, you know, trying to get the dessert we ordered at lunch than I am with the new Ghostbusters sequel. But it's possible. It's a great idea that they hired these two guys to do it, because I think it'll be a ... it could be a fresh look at it. And it could be funny."
If true, he would reprise his role of Dr. Peter Venkman and appear alongside Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson, Jr. more than 20 years after Ghostbusters 2.
Of the latter, he admitted, "We did a sequel, and it was sort of rather unsatisfying for me, because the first one to me was the goods. It was the real thing. And the sequel, you know, was ... it was a few years later. There was an idea pitched. And it was like, well, they got us all together in a room. We just laughed for a couple of hours. And then they said, 'What if we did another one? Here's an idea.'
"So they had this idea, but it didn't turn out to be the idea when I arrived on the set. They'd written a whole different movie than the one [initially discussed]. And the special-effects guys got it and got their hands on it. And it was just not the same movie. There were a few great scenes in it, but it wasn't the same movie. So there's never been an interest in a third Ghostbusters because the second one was kind of disappointing ... for me, anyway."
City of Ember opens this month.
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Comments (2)
Dave (5:49 PM on Mon Oct 6, 2008)
I agree. The second Ghostbusters movie was a mere shadow of the first movie.
Tyler (11:16 PM on Mon Oct 6, 2008)
A third ghostbusters movie would rock my world. Just imagine, the screens dark, then u see headlights come on, and u hear the Ecto1 sirens. Then.. BAM donananana (or something like that)