Bill Murray (Zombieland) has recently spoken up about the possibility of a second Ghostbusters sequel being released, and tried to quell some of the rumours that have been circulating for so long, and would have people believing he has been trying his damnedest to stop the thing from ever happening.
The original Ghostbusters movie (which was actually released a full 26 years ago) was a massive critical and commercial success; breaking box office records on its original theatrical run, and doing immensely well on video, DVD, and now Blu-ray; and even now, still holds a massively loyal following, and continues to attract new generations of viewers all the time, thanks to its unusual comic genius evident in the writing, and every actors performance.
That classic movie was followed by a lesser sequel in 1989, and pretty much ever since there has been rumours, on and off, about another sequel being released. Dan Akroyd (The Blues Brothers) has always seemed quite optimistic, and very into the idea of producing a third film, that he said would introduce a new generation of busters, as well as the original team, as a sort of passing of the torch, but it’s never seemed like Bill Murray (the franchises most bankable star) has been overly fussed.
Recently though Dr. Venkman (Murray) has spoken out about the proposed third film, and says that it isn’t him stopping the movie getting made, but instead blamed it on the under performance of Year One; as the writers of that film, Gene Stupinsky and Lee Eisenberg, as well as Ghostbusters star and writer Harold Ramis (otherwise known as Egon) were the ones that had been writing the drafts for Ghostbusters 3 that appeared the most promising to Hollywood officials; because according to Bill, after that film failed to hit big, the Hollywood opinion on Ghostbusters 3 shifted to something along the lines of “We’re not going to do it after all, are we?”
So, for now at least, it doesn’t look like Ghostbusters 3 is going to happen, as it’s now actually less like to appear on screen than it was about a year ago, as it’ll need a complete script rewrite. Bill has said that he finds the whole thing “irritating” but thinks that it might be “fun to do” because he misses “Rick Moranis and Annie Potts and Dan Akroyd” and thinks that “the guys are funny”, so there’s still hope that we may see the boys back in action at some point, and hopefully it will some time before dogs and cats start living together.
