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04Oct2009
Harold Ramis Non-Answers 'Ghostbusters 3' Questions
Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 6:23AM
When the third Ghostbusters movie finally arrives - when calling them will undoubtedly be replaced with Tweeting or texting them - the original trio is expected to return, albeit as back-up characters for a new set of heroes. Dan Aykroyd has always wanted to come back to this story, Harold Ramis probably always would just for a laugh, and Bill Murray took a lot of convincing to finally consent to the third film.
"[Dan Aykroyd] has been keeping this idea alive. This is his original concept, and he's wanted to do this for a while. He even wrote a spec script years ago. The twenty-fifth anniversary came, we had the new Blu-ray, and the videogame release, and people still seem so very excited about this movie. The response from the game was tremendous. Everywhere I went, people were asking about it. I thought, why not? Why can't there be a Ghostbusters 3? I have to remind people that they didn't like Ghostbusters 2 very much. But they still seem to want a third one. Finally, Murray said yes. I thought, 'Well, we have a good script. Why not?' Ivan Reitman said yes. It can be done. It can happen."And even though the script by Gene Stupnisky and Lee Eisenberg will be radically different, Ramis had two off-the-wall ideas for what Egon would be up to in the next flick:
"I had two initial first instincts. One was that Egon had become a shaved head Buddhist monk. That is not going to happen. 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."We're still looking for a 2012 release date on this thing I hear, which gives Stupnisky and Eisenberg a huge window in which to finish the script. And let's hope it's a good one, otherwise what would be the point?
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