Re: Aykroyd Comments on Murray, Ghostbusters 3! Working on Script w/Ra
The more and longer this movie doesn't get made the better I say. There's no conceivable way a good movie can be done. Not with Ramis being fat, not with Murray being a prima donna dick to the nth degree, and especially not after Year One (Ugh!). There's just almost nothing to look forward to in a sequel. Literally nothing.
The second movie was already dumbed/watered down by the cartoon (which was darker and truer to the first movie than the second movie). So I'm not sure why a sequel would carry any interest with GB fans at all. And I'm a huge GB fan, love the first movie, love the cartoon series had all of the toys growing up.
I do not want a third movie. Not 20 years after the second one, not with the state of the three principal actors and how old they are and how they are in their careers right now and not with how Hollywood goes about doing sequels, or pretty much anything, these days especially when it comes to comedies.
What I'd much rather see? A serious reboot. I know that's almost sacrilege and Hollywood's track record with reboots is hardly any better than it is with sequels to decade-old franchise (especially comedy ones. Remember how terrible Men in Black 2 was five years after the first one?)
Do a "reboot" and take a dark and somewhat serious tone with the series. Don't make it an action-comedy make it a bit more serious. You don't have to go completely dark but it'd be possible to play it straight with enough thought put into it. Make it like Die Hard only with ghosts or something. (And find a better way to achieve a climax than the "demigod takes over the world" one. Because if anything that's a lame climax for both movies as means the world survived two apocalyptic scenarios in the span of five years pretty much on dumb luck.
If Peter hadn't fucked up their funding at Columbia, if Egon hadn't gotten that final data at the library job, if Ray hadn't taken out another mortgage on his parents' home, if Dana hadn't called the Ghostbusters, if any number of things were just slightly different the world would have ended. It didn't simply out of dumb luck. I now plots and contrivances like this are fairly "common" in movies but rarely is the likely outcome of the contrivances the end of the world.
Like if all of the contrivances in "Die Hard" hadn't happened (namely a bat-shit out of his mid NYC Police Officer hadn't met up with his estranged wife in an office building that was going to be the target of a heist) no big deal. A guy basically robs a vault.
If the contrivances in "Ghostbusters" (or Ghostbusters 2) hadn't happened the world would be over!
Or, fuck it, go full-hog and piss off half of the world's population and have the Ghostbusters fight Jesus/God and stop the "actual" apocalypse from happening.
