Bill Murray Talks GB3!!

Peter Venkman himself had a few things to say at Fantastic Fest Thursday about the upcoming Ghostbusters sequel. It seems Murray has healed his wounds and may be willing to return as the deadpan Venkman! Murray said, "the wounds from GHOSTBUSTERS 2 are healed" and that he would be ready to come back if the writting staff does a good treatment on the third film. He commented further by saying, "And supposedly they have hired two guys from The Office to write a script. So that could work. I think that’s a good idea to get a fresh look at… I always liked the characters. The characters are fun. And we did have a lot of fun making the movie. The first one was really a lot of fun to make. And I think the first 45 minutes of Ghostbusters is about as fun as a movie gets.”

Murray did throw caution in th eway of the writers however by saying, “We didn’t have a lot of special effects in it. There were just a couple. It was just the funny characters in that world, and I like that movie because of it. The first movie had like 60 plate shots. The second movie had like hundreds. Those guys got their hands on the script early, and it was GONE. It went away. It was hard to wrangle because it was tied all around the effects without the story or the characters coming first. So, they are hard movies to write, and Dan really caught it with that first one.” So this is definately a we'll take a look at it statement concerning Murray reprising his role. If the script sucks, I doubt he'd do it just for the sake of doing (He's not Steve Martin).

So there you have it, Murray is open to the idea! How great is that? Now we just need a good script and this film should move along quite nicely. It has been so long that I have dreamed about at least one more go-round with the Busters, and seems like that date isn't that far off anymore!


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