Finally, Someone Interviews GB3 Writer Lee Eisenberg!

Lee Eisenberg, one of the two part writing team with Gene Stupnitsky and writer finally got interviewed thanks to his alma mater, Connecticut College and The Day.  In the article he talks about writing for The Office and the process he's gone through for the past few years revising the Ghostbusters 3 script to be a tighter, funnier movie.  No update from Murray yet on his nod of approval. Article here, quote below.

"We've been working really closely with Ivan Reitman for a couple years on it. Dan Aykroyd has been really involved. Harold Ramis has been very involved - we're sharing a story credit on it with him. Then we reworked the script. I mean, that script went through a lot of rewrites, and it kept getting, we think at least, tighter and funnier. It took a little bit to really understand the tone of a movie like 'Ghostbusters.' It's really scary when you're writing characters you grew up on. ... The last thing you want to do is disappoint.  Right now, we have a script we haven't worked on probably in a couple of months, and we're waiting for Bill Murray to read it. People seem excited about it, and the studio seems high on it. ... We're very proud of it. We worked really hard on it, and I think it'd be a really fun movie."

Our take: we're glad the script has gone through this long process. Ghostbusters indeed has an extremely hard tone to nail, between horror and comedy, scifi and adventure.  Special thanks to Big Shiny Robot for surfacing the article.

Do you live near Connecticut College and want to hear Lee speak?  Tomorrow night (Friday the 28th) he will be on campus to chat tv and screen writing.  Who knows, you might even be able to get some GB3 tidbits out of him.

WHO: Lee Eisenberg, former writer and co-executive producer of "The Office"
WHEN: 8:15 p.m. Friday
WHERE: John C. Evans Hall, Cummings Arts Center, Connecticut College, Mohegan Avenue, New London
ADMISSION: Free
CONTACT: (860) 439-2500