Bill Murray Confirms Ghostbusters III Rumor

[Shazam!]

Last I heard was that he won't be in Ghostbusters 3.

"and even Rick Moranis has said he'd come out of retirement for a Ghostbusters 3!"

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43624

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I'm up for another GB movie, even a bad one, just get the boys back together, and if they can get Sigourney, Rick and Anne Potts in it then im sold.

 

[barnaclelapse]

Moranis is very mercurial, and he enjoys retirement very much. I have no doubt that everyone would like him to return, but I doubt he will unless the script knocks his socks off.

Apparently his wife died, and he's focusing his time with his kids.

Not "apparently" -- his wife passed away in 1991 from liver cancer, and he took what was intended to be a hiatus, appearing in maybe a movie a year, from acting for a while to raise his children, who were very young at the time (although they're grown, now). Eventually, he realized that he didn't miss making movies all that much, and that hiatus became retirement, only coming out for small things like a voice role in Brother Bear. He had made his money in the '80s and early '90s, and he had spent it wisely, so he didn't need to work. Good for him.

I wouldn't mind him recording another album, that's for sure.

 

[Agent Richard07]

Last I heard was that he won't be in Ghostbusters 3.

"and even Rick Moranis has said he'd come out of retirement for a Ghostbusters 3!"

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43624

That might be old news. From what I heard, he was in at one point, then dropped out again. I hope something happens and he does come back.

I clicked on the link in that article and noticed that they mentioned Murray returning as a slimer ghost and I thought... Okay, things just got a little worse. It's bad enough that the latest news has him as a ghost, but now he'll be a cartoonish green blob? Then I watched the video interview with Reitman and saw that it was just the interviewer casually asking about Bill as a "slimer kind of character".

 

[Saul]

This is sounding a bit like that long banded about Ghostbusters III script.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Murray as a slimer ghost, and writers from "The Office" ... that's two nails in the coffin. I now have bad feelings about this being worth a damn.

 

[DonnyBaker]

I sure hope this happens. I've been a fan since I was knee-high- to a tadpole.

 

[Spockette2]

I have no interest in a Ghostbuster film without a breathing Peter Venkman portrayed by Bill Murray. If he can't get his heart right about the movie, then I think they're better off cancelling plans to make it. It's like selling unsweetened Hershey Bars over the counter at the grocery store. Ever had unsweetened chocolate? BLECHH!!!!

 

[LitmusDragon]

I'm not sure why some people are assuming that Murray won't be like himself when he's a ghost. I think he'll play the ghost exactly how he plays Venkman, and therein lies the humor. I can see it working either as him being an adversary to the Ghostbusters, or aiding them in some way. Think about him screwing with Ray and Egon in the first movie, then imagine him doing it from beyond the grave. I don't know, I think there's potential there.

In fact, remember that scene at the very beginning of the first movie when Egon is listening to a table with a stethoscope and Venkman comes up behind him and raps on the table and says "Eeegon" in the spooky voice? Like that!

 

[Timby]

It all depends on the execution. If, for example, it's handled like I mentioned earlier...

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: 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.

Well, that's just stupid.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Well Ivan Reitman hated Hellbent, and he's signed back on to do the movie, so I hope that Hellbent is out the window and they're doing something else. No details have come to light though.

 

[Timby]

Now you're just regurgitating my posts.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Now you're just regurgitating my posts.

Oh right.