Re: Bill Murrary Confirms Ghostbusters III Rumor
Funny. This is the one element of
Ghostbusters III that has been floating around since all the drafts of
Hellbent in 1999 and early 2000. The first is Venkman as a ghost -- in the first draft of
Hellbent, Venkman had been dead for years, and when the Ghostbusters were in Hell for the climactic battle, God took on the face of Venkman and talked them through their bullshit to give them the solution to defeat Satan. Later drafts had an opening ghost battle, in which Venkman died saving the rest of the team, only to return, again, to save the day in Hell.
I really, really hope that Ghost Venkman doesn't mean that the
Office guys have just done a rewrite of
Hellbent, because every single draft of it was fucking terrible. I don't
think it's true, because even the basic pitch of
Hellbent was enough to make Ivan Reitman say, "If you want to make this movie, go ahead, but I'll have no part of it," and he's come aboard the project now ... but, man. The writers of
Year One and elements from a script worse than even the most execrable stuff from
The Real Ghostbusters. I'm starting to get worried.
If they can do that good of a job with a video game (which Aykroyd and Ramis wrote), then I have high hopes for a film.
They did not, according to Harold Ramis in an interview last year with the New York Times. While Aykroyd and Ramis have the writing credits for marketing purposes, the script for the game was written by Terminal Reality staffers. The script was then sent to Aykroyd and Ramis for "touching up," which meant adjusting the terminology for accuracy and a few adjustments here and there. Ramis said in the interview, "They didn't pay us enough to spend enough time to make it as funny as the movies."
And, really,
The Video Game was pretty weak in the writing department. "Pull my finger! I, Vigo, command you!"
