Dan Aykroyd Confirms Ghostbusters III Movie and New Videogame
Yesterday in an interview with CISN 103.9 FM Dan Aykroyd was asked about the rumored Ghostbusters sequel. To much surprise Aykroyd revealed that the was a movie in production.
“It lives! It lives today! Last year it didn’t!” Aykroyd confirmed. The script written by Aykroyd is called “Hell Bent”. The movie will be about the Ghostbusters crossing dimensions to go to the Hell side of Manhattan called Manhellton.
The basic premise seems like a flipside of the real world where everying will be related to real world people and locations. The visualization given includes cops as blue minotaurs, Central Park as a huge mine with green demons surrounded by black onyx thousand foot high buidlings with classic red devils. Aykroyd says ther will also be a Donald Trump type character named Mr Siftler.
The movie was rumored on the internet in recent years to be on hold because of Bill Murray refusal to do another sequel. Sadly it seems Murray still refuses to appear on screen for a Ghostbusters movie. “It won’t happen as a live action because Billy [Bill Murray] will not come on a live action stage anymore for it.” Dan Aykroyd reveals. However Murray will lend his voice to it as a CGI animated project.
Aykroyd goes on to explain why the CGI route will actually be beneficial “With CGI animation and the way these cartoons are done we can do just everything I ever wrote in that script for much less money.”
On a related note, in an interview with the Edmonton Sun, Dan Aykroyd revealed, “Universal purchased the rights from Sony for a game. I’m actually going to have to perform and do some motion capture for them. That will be next year.” This would most likely why Sony, who currently own the rights to the property, was quick to pull the plug on the unlicenced Zootfly game. Sony has made an effort to remove all evidence of the game by getting ZootFly as well as YouTube to remove all video of the never to be game.
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January 25th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
While it’s disappointing that Bill won’t do live action, at least we’re going to get another GB movie… And CG does have some benefits, they can make all the characters look like they haven’t aged a day since GB2 and CG has progressed to a point where it can almost pass for live action (I’ll definitely be disappointed if they make the 3rd installment as a cartoon). Personally I think that the best way to go would be to give Bill Murray either a cameo (make him retired and uninterested in Ghostbusting after some sort of tragedy that’s taken his zest and enthusiasm away…) or give him an extremely small role that he’d be willing to devote a small amount of time doing live action for (have him come out of retirement to help in the final battle!) then he could be replaced with a new comic relief character that would also breath something fresh into the movie (I heard Ben Stiller is interested in being part of a GB3 project…?)
August 29th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Hey they can still do a live action movie for Ghostbusters III without Bill Murray. Rumor has it Ben Stiller is gonna be in it why not cast him as Dr Venkman