Over at the terrific Movieweb, they've been talking to director Harold Ramis in advance of the DVD and Blu-ray release of his underwhelming comedy, Year One. And, naturally, they took the opportunity to quiz him about Ghostbusters 3 while they had the man proverbially pinned down. He's not said anything wildly new here, but every little helps...

Ramis reiterates in the interview that Dan Aykroyd has been the driving force behind a third Ghostbusters movie, and that the reaction to the recent videogame did matters no harm either. "I have to remind people that they didn't like Ghostbusters II very much," he noted, "but they still seem to want a third one". For the record, we liked Ghostbusters II - we've even got a love letter to it here.

As for the evolution of the character of Egon, Ramis said that "The thing that I pitched for my character is that he's been living in Geneva, and he works for the Institute of Imaginary Science. The work we are doing doesn't require any conceptual, intellectual, special, or mathematical models for what we are doing. Even we don't know what we are doing. It's that theoretical."

He went on to deny that the film is set to deal with the Mayan calendar, and confirmed that, as of yet, no actor has been approached or signed up to appear in the film (save for the confirmation of the returning names). He ended by saying, "Yeah, we definitely are introducing new Ghostbusters. That much is for sure. And there will be inter-dimensional creatures visiting New York. And we will deal with it. That's all I am allowed to say at this point."

The full interview, where he also discussed the potential remake of Meatballs, can be found here.