Dan Aykroyd chimes in on GHOSTBUSTERS III
Just yesterday, we heard Bill Murray give his two cents (HERE) on the status of GHOSTBUSTERS III, stating that “There’s still no script, it’s just a bunch of talk,” adding that all that existed was “just a wishlist for someone.”
Now today, we get word that fellow Ghostbuster Dan Aykroyd says there is, in fact, a script.
Here it is, straight from the mouth of Dr. Raymond Stantz himself:
“Obviously, it’s all talk until I have the following: B117B3X9. That’s a production number. When I see a production number, then I’m gonna start leasing cars, get a cell phone, I get my office back, get the fridge, get another secretary. I know I’m in the picture business again! But I dont have that production number tonight, sir.”
On the subject of if a script does indeed exist, Aykroyd said this:
“We have a script, but no PN number and until I get that…until we have a green light, we can’t stick the pipe up into the megacorporation and draw the honey.”
I think the inconsistencies in Murray’s statement and Aykroyd’s can be explained by the fact that GHOSTBUSTERS III really is all talk at this point. It’s he said, she said, heresay. And, as Aykroyd and Murray both expressed, nothing is going to happen with the film until they have some key things in place.
GHOSTBUSTERS III is an idea that has existed quite possibly since the release of second film in 1989, and it’s been no secret that Aykroyd has been the main proponent of it all along. There was even a time where he posed the idea of creating a literal hell on Earth, a horror to the likes of something we had not seen in the supernatural chaos of I & II.
I even got the chance to speak with Harold Raims (Dr. Egon Spengler) some years ago at the Austin Film Festival, and when I asked him about this very thing, he laughed it off saying “Yeah, that was Danny’s idea.” What this gave me the feeling of then is the same feeling I get from this news now. That the Ghostbusters aren’t going to suck in their guts unless they feel it’s necessary. Even if they are the Ghostbusters.
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