Remember the glory years, between 1983 and 1999, when all we wanted was another STAR WARS film? Do you recall the childlike innocence with which we accepted the prospect of another installment to our beloved saga, even though in the intervening 16 years, George Lucas the Hutt had clearly gone mad, filling his ample gut with lashings of cash, and feeding Irvin Kershner to the Rancor? It’s safe to assume that we are now older, wiser, and a whole lot more cynical, and studio bigwigs should take heed of the warning before toying with more childhood classics.
Yes, THN is addressing you Ivan Reitman. And you Dan Ackroyd.
The long-mooted GHOSTBUSTERS 3 is one of those films we’ve been dying to see, but are too afraid to truly know. But the slime just got real, as apparently it’s going ahead, and BORED TO DEATH’s John Hodgman (speaking on WFMU‘s ‘The Best Show’) has even been hinting at plot details and possible casting. Despite denying on Twitter that he is actually involved, Hodgman had a few things to say about GHOSTBUSTERS 3:
‘If you were hypothetically offered a role in GHOSTBUSTERS 3, would you take the role? Let’s say you’re sort of the dissolute son of Egon, the Harold Ramis character, and you’re kind of like John Candy in SPLASH. You’re kind of a mess. But it turns out that you’re a natural ghost whisperer. A natural psychic. But here’s the thing: Bill Murray’s not going to be in this movie and will probably not be happy that you are. But you get to be in a major role in a major movie and in one of the greatest franchises of all time. Would you do it?’
Is Hogdman just blowing smoke up our ECTO containment units? Or is his denial just a spot of backtracking, or ruse to maintain the mystery that currently surrounds the project? It has previously been reported that a third film would indeed follow the children of the original ‘Busters, with Dana Barrett’s (Sigourney Weaver) son Oscar – the baby from GHOSTBUSTERS 2 – taking the lead role.
Either way, it seems the project is happening, and Ackroyd has already stated that it will go ahead with or without Bill Murray (surely the crux of the whole franchise). For this to work, Ackroyd and Reitman will have to pull something pretty effing spectacular from their Proton Packs to make this work, something of Marshmallow Man proprtions.
For our feelings on how the slime should go down in GHOSTBUSTERS 3, see our previous artilce here
Source: io9
