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Will there ever be a Ghostbusters 3?

Sarah Dobbs


Dan Akroyd seems to think that, finally, another sequel to the brilliant Ghostbusters might be feasible. And apparently, even Bill Murray isn't completely against it. Gosh.

Published on Aug 7, 2007

Dan Akroyd has, this week, got us all a bit over-excited by saying that a third Ghostbusters movie -- currently titled Hellbent: Ghostbusters Go To Hell -- might actually be in the works. Speaking to a country music radio station, he said:

"We go to the hell side of Manhattan, downtown, Foley Square. It's all where the cops are -- they are all blue minotaurs. Central Park is this huge peat mine with green demons there, surrounded by black onyx thousand-foot high apartment buildings with classic red devils, very wealthy. We go and visit a Donald Trump-like character who is Mr. Sifler. Luke Sifler. Lu-cifer. So we meet the devil in it. Now, it won't happen as a live-action, because Billy will not come on in the live-action stage anymore for it, but he will voice his part and we're looking to do it as a CGI-animated project. It lives. It lives today. Last year it didn't. This year it lives. With CGI animation and the way these cartoons are done, we can do everything I ever wrote in that script for much less money."

I'm sure we can all agree that Ghostbusters was a great film. Even me, and I wasn't even allowed to watch it as a child. But Ghostbusters 2, eh. Not so great, was it? And as for CGI, well, Toy Story and Finding Nemo are all very well, but there's a gigantic mountain of CGI crap out there. Maybe this one was better off left for dead.

 

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Re: Will there ever be a Ghostbusters 3?
Posted By robertmclaughlin 1 August 7, 2007 10:14:25 AM

I think this is going to be the way to go - as Bill Murray famously said he didnt want anything else ever to do with Ghostbusters unless he was dead anc came back as a ghost. Personally i think the best way for this franchise to go would be to make a TV show based on the characters and go at it a la Buffy with Ray and Egon being Giles like 'Watchers' to a whole new generation of Ghostbusters.

Re: Will there ever be a Ghostbusters 3?
Posted By RonHogan 1 August 7, 2007 01:47:37 PM

I'll go on record as not being opposed to this. Just because I think the visuals could look really cool.

Re: Will there ever be a Ghostbusters 3?
Posted By stuxmusic 1 August 7, 2007 01:47:53 PM

Please, no. I think its fine for original titles to come out on cgi, but the third in a series? NO. I'd rather it didn't happen to be honest.

Re: Will there ever be a Ghostbusters 3?
Posted By Spidergirl 1 August 7, 2007 04:00:13 PM

Yeah, I have to say, I think I'd just prefer they didn't bother.

Re: Will there ever be a Ghostbusters 3?
Posted By sitar_tattoo 1 August 8, 2007 08:30:54 AM

Ah, country music radio, the most obvious of movie news sources.

Re: Will there ever be a Ghostbusters 3?
Posted By kimkaze 1 August 9, 2007 07:16:59 PM

Why can't Bill Murray just wake and and smell the moolah here?

Re: Will there ever be a Ghostbusters 3?
Posted By Liberace 1 August 15, 2007 03:56:28 PM

Controversially, I wish that the Ghostbuster series had ended about two thirds of the way through the original movie. Ghostbusters 3 appears on my wish list somewhere between Congo 2 and my appendix bursting.
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