Bill Murray Talks 'ghostbusters 3'

For the last couple years Sony has been talking about a "Ghostbuster 3" movie being made. Supposedly the only thing holding the production back was Bill Murray. Sony hired two of the writers from "the office" to pen the script, and got Ivan Reitman along with the entire original cast to agree to coming back, that is all except for Bill Murray.

Then in March, Murray, who had long been balking at doing a third movie, appeared on "The David Letterman Show" and claimed that the thought of a third movie is his "nightmare" and is just "crazy talk." 

At the press day for Aaron Schneider's Get Low, ComingSoon asked about the statements Murray made on the Letterman show to which we got an equally enigmatic answer:

"You know, it’s really the studio starts this stuff," he told us. "They start saying 'Ghostbusters.' They want to do (it) and it’s really the world of sequels and bringing these things back again, and then some wiseacre said, 'Hey, we got a couple of new writers who are gonna write something.' And I thought, 'Oh, well, maybe there’ll be some writers' and there was always this joke, sort of a half-true, half-joke thing like, 'Well, I’ll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.' That was my joke, you know? So supposedly someone was writing a script where I actually got killed in the first reel and became a ghost, which I thought, 'Well, that’s kind of clever anyway.' But then these guys that were supposedly the writers that were going to do it, they wrote a film that came out and people saw the film* and went … 'We’re not going to do it after all, are we?' So it’s just a kind of a dreamy thing. They want to create a new generation of Ghostbusters, you know? They’d just like us to pass the torch."

When asked to clarify whether making the movie really would be a "nightmare," Bill Murray told us this, "Well, it’s true, but we made a great movie and then we made another one, you know? So we went to the well twice and it’s almost impossible to do the second movie as well. Only horror movies get better as they go along because they have more money to spend for more crazy effects. I actually thought the other day--it’s just become so irritating--but I actually heard people like, young people that really [heard] of the movie when they were kids and I thought, 'You know, maybe I should just do it. Maybe it’d be fun to do.' Because the guys are funny and I miss [Rick] Moranis and Annie [Potts] and Danny. Those people are some people that were really, you know, I miss them. I think that’s really a big part of it."

I personally want to see this movie get made. There have been rumors of the Apatow gang taking over the franchise from the original cast, this could work, or they could just put an end the trilogy that we havne't seen or heard from in 21 years, just bring back the original cast for one more, and then you can re-boot it, remake it, or whatever you want hollywood.

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[BatmanFan]

I hope Bill Murray gets his head out of his ass, I want to see ghostbusters 3, if it does get made though, lets hope its not in 3D.