Ghostbusters 3 News, The Gang’s All Back

I watched “Ghostbusters” yesterday, and it is still an incredible movie. No matter how many times I hear it, Bill Murray saying, “Yes it’s true, this man has no d***”, makes me laugh uncontrollably. And even as a grown-ass man, I still want my own proton pack. My plan was to watch “Ghostbusters 2” today while my girlfriend was at work (I know an inexplicable number of people, including her, who are actually afraid of the sequel). Now I feel like I have to because while waiting for a guy to come fix the leak in my roof, I stumbled across some exciting “Ghostbusters 3” news.

Bloody Disgusting reports that all four members of the original team are on board for the third episode, including the previously reluctant Murray. In addition to that, Sigourney Weaver is in, and Rick Moranis is coming out of retirement to join the party. So far there’s no word on Annie Potts.

Here are some spoilers courtesy of MTV.



Sure, Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, who wrote that piece of crap “Year One”, wrote the script, but I’m not going to let that temper my enthusiasm right now. The very idea Venkman, Spengler, Stantz, and Zeddmore together again, doing what they do, is enough to make me ignore the very real possibility of this being another “Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls” type travesty. I won’t actually believe it until I see it for myself, but the idea certainly is fun.

Dan Aykroyd Helps Out with Scripting Duties on Ghostbusters 3



From where I’m sitting, “Ghostbusters 3″ still seems like a bad idea. A really bad idea. And while I was a pretty big fan of the much-maligned “Ghostbusters 2″ when I was ten, the film has not aged well with me at all. However, a tiny bit of interesting news from the boys and girls over at Vanity Fair  has definitely piqued my interest a bit. According to them, Dan Aykroyd is tackling some rewriting work on Stupnitsky and Eisenberg’s script, which is exceptional news considering how impossibly mediocre “Year One” was. Granted, I didn’t hate it as much as everybody else on the planet, but it’s certainly not a fantastic slice of mainstream cinema by any stretch of the imagination.

Here’s the quote in care you’re curious:



With Aykroyd on-board, my reluctance to watch “Ghostbusters 3″ has been somewhat alleviated. Somewhat. Only time will tell if this venture is worthy to carry the name.