Dan Aykroyd Publicly Dismisses Murray Script-Shredding Rumor

Empire Magazine held a live chat with Dan Aykroyd and fans like Davide Passaia asked alllllllll the right questions. Bear with some of the translations as Davide is from Ghostbusters Italia.

 HAS BILL MURRAY SHREDDED THE GB3 SCRIPT????
" Bill Murray is not capable of such behaviour. This is simply something that would not be in his nature. We have a deep, private personal relationship that transcends business. We communicate frequently and his position on the involvement in Ghostbusters 3 has been made clear and I respect that. But Bill has too much positive estimation of my writing skills to shred the work."
 Later he talked about Moranis and said that the new refined script will surely have a part for him.

Ok so that was a bit of a mess.

Back in December I didn't report on the script shredding rumors because they came from the FREAKIN NATIONAL ENQUIRER. You know, the bigfoot, batboy, MIB people. That didn't stop major entertainment news organizations from sharing the story. Yeesh.

UPDATE: Empire themselves back up the Aykroyd quotes, they've posted a blog with them on their site.. Looks like Aykroyd is refining the script and Murray involvement is... well... it sounds like he won't be in the film. I am taking "his position on involvement in GB3 has been made clear" to mean that he isn't in. Make of that what you will and take with it as many grains of salt as you will.

Empire asserts that a new actor might take over Venkman's role. I do not see where Aykroyd implied that in the quotes. Do you?