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Dan Ayrkroyd Gives Some Information About The Endless Saga Of Ghostbusters 3
Oct 8th
While Dan Ayrkroyd has been doing the promotional rounds for his new Crystal Head Vodka (yes I’m serious), he sat down with Vanity Fair and spoke a little about the eternal saga of Ghostbusters 3. In the interview Ayrkroyd reveals that he has taken over writing duties from The Office (US) writer/producers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg – the pair who Bill Murray recently gave some thumbs down worthy comments about in an interview with GQ Magazine. Check out what Akyroyd says in reaction to Murray’s comments and his thoughts on Ghostbusters 3.
“I think he was concerned that the writing on Ghostbusters 3 by these guys would not be up to standard, but I can tell you firsthand, I’m working on the script now and those two—Stupnitsky and Eisenberg, [writer-producers of The Office]—wrote Bill the comic role of a lifetime, and the new Ghostbusters and the old are all well represented in it. We have a strong first draft that Harold [Ramis] and I will take back, and I’m very excited about working on it.”
”Look, Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial. But it has to evolve. Now [in Ghostbusters 3] my character’s eyesight is shot, I got a bad knee, a bad hip—I can’t drive that caddy anymore or lift that Psychotron Accelerator anymore, it’s too heavy. We need young legs, new minds—new Ghostbusters; so I’m in essence passing the torch to the new regime, and you know what? That’s totally okay with me.”
I really like what Aykroyd had to say in this interview, it’s intilled in me a lot more optimism about the potential Ghostbusters 3 movie. I never felt at ease with new screenwriters taking over writing duties from Aykroyd and Ramis, the pair who’s idea the whole franchise was in the first place. Also to point out I’ve got so much strictly heterosexual love for Bill Murray, he doesn’t give a flying fudge muffins, he just says it how it is. I still can’t see this film being made in the next 24877 decades though, no matter what Aykroyd says!
Bill Murray Gives His Thoughts On A Ghostbusters 3
Mar 2nd
Bill Murray cracks me up, he’s so honest it comes across that he doesn’t give a sh*t, I really get the feeling he just wants to play golf, drink and do a film every now and then when he feels like it, I can respect that. From this recent interview with David Letterman he gives a an insight into his thoughts on a 3rd Ghostbusters movie, it doesn’t sound good for the people looking forward to this. He says the idea of making a 3rd movie is ‘just crazy talk’ and his ‘nightmare’ and also that he told the producers he would only do it ‘if they kill me off in the first reel I’ll do it, so now they’ve figured out a way to kill me off in the first reel’. One positive from a fan point of view is that he says making the video game was a lot fun. Enough of me writing about it, check it out for yourself below, he tells a pretty funny story at the end. I still think we’ll see a new Ghostbusters film late 2011 or 2012 for some reason.