Dan Aykroyd shares the latest on Ghostbusters 3 and 4
Dec. 5, 2012
You read that right, people. Despite the incredible obstacles in the path to GHOSTBUSTERS 3 actually becoming a reality, Dan Aykroyd recently lent credence to the possibility of GHOSTBUSTERS 4.
In an interview with Esquire which focused almost entirely on GHOSTBUSTERS 3, Aykroyd was asked about whether the third film is still following the long rumored plot that has our heroes going to Hell.
Man-hell-ttan, and the Ghostbusters in hell, would be so solid, but we gotta get maybe one or two made before that. But, oh, wow... I wrote that with Tom Davis, my writing partner, recently deceased, who wrote Coneheads with me and stuff on Saturday Night Live. There's classic Tom Davis lines and funny stuff in there, really it's probably the most humorous of all the Ghostbusters scripts that have generated in that last little while. But we'll put the humor into this next one. It's gotta be funny, or it's not worth doing. It can be scary, it can be Ghostbusters, it can be the new franchise, the new people, but if it's not funny … Wait a minute, it started as a comedy. Let's make sure there's laughs and no laugh unturned and that we really make that our priority, to make it funny and exciting, but mainly funny.
Two or three more GHOSTBUSTERS? I am starting to think that Aykroyd has some blind faith that these movies are actually going to happen, especially if Bill Murray is not involved. He does go on to say that there is no bad blood with Murray and that he is leaving room to write him back into the third film if he changes his mind.
Aykroyd feels confident that they are in a good place with the script, but he says he was confident before as well, saying Sony would have made a "nine figure return" if they had gone with the script written by Gene Stupinsky and Lee Eisenberg from THE OFFICE. The newest edition is being written by Etan Cohen (MEN IN BLACK 3) which does not give much more confidence.
But, Aykroyd is not giving much more time to let GHOSTBUSTERS 3 happen. While he says if it does get made, he would only stay on behind the scenes after it and GHOSTBUSTERS 4 would focus on the next generation of heroes. If it doesn't, he has an exit strategy.
Now, this would add quite a bump to Sony's bottom line, quite a bump. If they make this movie, in its current shape, they would be looking at a pretty hefty, nine-figure return. And so I'm hoping they get on to move it, but if they don't, I have multiple trains. I've got tracks six, seven, and nine, and that's four. I'll be moving on to other things, as will Ivan, by the way. We can't wait forever. And now's the time to tell the picture company, and I'd say this quite publically, it's time now to sit down and make this movie, or you will lose your main principals, and you won't be able to make it without us, because we have rights, and now is time to make the movie...
At least we have the security to know GHOSTBUSTERS will not continue without these guys giving their sign off. But, do any of you still want a GHOSTBUSTERS 3?
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Check it out. Obviously i cant tell you how credible this story is but still, its news worth if there is even word that Bill Murray signed on!
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Check it out. Obviously i cant tell you how credible this story is but still, its news worth if there is even word that Bill Murray signed on!
Actually Men in Black 3 was good
COME ON!
I don't see why they just don't use the storyline from the recent game, that was truly great.
I don't see why they just don't use the storyline from the recent game, that was truly great.
Murray or not?
Yes please
If the script is good...
Hell yeah! More Ghostbusters!
Sigh
Here's the deal though: Everyone I think who reads these articles and comments on them are thinking the same thing. These don't feel or sound anything like Ghostbusters. No. They sound like
Here's the deal though: Everyone I think who reads these articles and comments on them are thinking the same thing. These don't feel or sound anything like Ghostbusters. No. They sound like rehashes of Ghostbusters 2. And that's where I get bummed, and in my opinion, probably where Bill Murray gets bummed.
Seriously, Ghostbusters is great not just because it's funny, but it had amazing special fx that still hold up, the actors had great presence, New York was a grimy place, the Ghostbusters mattered in the film and were relevant, etc. The Real Ghostbusters cartoon, which is one of the best written and greatest animated series of all time, had better plots and more of a grasp for what made Ghostbusters great than the sequel... and to be honest, it seems like its better on the large front than anything that's being mentioned by Aykroyd in these updates.
My opinion in the end? Just blow it up and start over if you're going to do it, or don't do it at all. Let the originals rest in peace and let's just see where it goes from there.
Oh yeah