The Spot News: Ghostbusters 3...is it really happening?

By: Robert Acosta

I was born in the early 90's so yes, you now know i'm fairly young. Now pertaining to the story, you also know I missed Ghostbusters. And Ghostbusters 2.

Now that's not to say that I haven't seen either, because I have, but i'm nowhere near in love with it like people born in the 80's are. So when I hear Ghostbusters 3 and the idea of it coming to fruition, I do get a bit excited.

I finally get to be caught up in the hysteria that is Ghostbusters! At the same time, what if it all goes wrong? I get to say I saw Ghostbusters 3 in the theater...and it sucked...not what I envision saying.

But is it really happening in the first place? Dan Aykroyd is here to give you a hell yeah!:
NOTE: Dan Aykroyd's comments are the ones not in Bold, Underline or Italics.

Q:Speaking of your film career, last month in GQ Bill Murray said something that wasn’t so nice about Ghostbusters 3.


A: He was talking about the writers from Year One, and I think he was reacting to the box-office success and the general public view of the film, which in my view was a very serviceable comedy, and in the end I think they’ll make their money back. 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.

Q: Bill and Ted 3. Heathers 2. True Lies 2. Really?

A: 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.


Source: Vanity Fair