Join me as I over analyze a sentence...
Just when I think I'm out, they keep pulling me back in. Davide Passaia forwarded me an interesting interview from April 5th 2012, presumably after Murray's appearance at opening day for the Cubs. WGN sports anchor guy Pat Tomasulo talked Cubbies with Murray, having a very lively conversation while slowly working his way to the unavoidable Ghostbusters 3 question:
"I heard you mention some of the movies you were working on, I think some people out there were interested in Ghostbusters 3, if that is a possibility, and if you'll be involved with that?"
Off the cuff, Murray answered with a non-committal "Well, it's a possibility..." before immediately changing the subject, pointing out that he has a very funny movie with Wes Anderson on the way this Summer.
Listen for yourself here.
So here's what's bothering me...
Why didn't Murray just say "no"? Why didn't he shoot down the possibility, especially after throwing to his summer Wes Anderson flick so fast? Is he interested, might he be interested with a tweaked script? Is he unaware that the cat is out of the bag on his non-involvement and trying not to hurt Aykroyd's feelings? Maybe he just wasn't thinking? What does that mean for Aykroyd's assertion in the Telegraph interview from last month? Maybe Murray is being flakey and not giving anyone a straight answer, so Aykroyd just gave up? Seriously, why didn't Murray say no to GB3 in this conversation? He's called the project crock before. What's stopping him from doing just that once more? Does he want to force me to blog for an eternity? Doesn't he care that I announced a retirement from Ghostbusters 3 blogging!?!?!?!
As Murray puts it in another portion of the interview, unrelated to Ghostbusters, "Well you can't believe everything you read".
The blog goes on, as long as Murray goes on. Let's hope baseball season drives him out of the woodwork more often so we can get to the bottom of this and I can leave this blogger plane without unfinished business.
Well, there will be the round press for Moonrise Kingdom....we hope that the GB3 question will be asked a lot!
ReplyDeleteI will absolutely positively watch GB3 if Murray is in it. If he's not... then I'm not so sure. They can start the opening sequence with another episode of "World Of The Psychic"!
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In the last epic battle against the forces of evil, the Ghostbusters are defeated and also his friend Dr. Venkman is lost in any dimension. 25 years later (2017) civilization has disappeared and the land is occupied and ruled by demons and ghosts. The human survivors, although there are hundreds of thousands, only can go during the day equipped few with rustic models "protons packs" (only useful for small ghosts) to get food in the cities now inhabited by all kinds of imaginable entities. During the night the "zombies-vampiros" hunt human to eat them or infect them and join his armies. Meanwhile, Drs. Stantz and Spengler survive in its headquarters in New York, along with doctor Zeddemore and wife, Janine, Louis Tully and Slimer. Egon and Ray have perfected the technology to jump from dimension to dimension and so be able to face the great entity known as "The architect" who has submitted to the world, but they no longer have the necessary physical conditions for the mission, so it decided to convey a message by radio in order to find new recruits and train them; months later receive response from California, where two girls and two boys try to reach New York on a risky journey to rejoin the old Ghostbusters. Once achieved, do may beat "The architect" in the beyond and also find Peter Venkman?
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I have the solution! I know how to not only get Murray to do GB3, but to be super excited out about. Are you ready? Here it is: Get Wes Anderson to write and direct it! Done. Dan Aykroyd would have to give up control, but it would be for the best. Think about it.
ReplyDeleteWes + GB = Epic Win
Wes Anderson to direct Ghostbusters 3 is a great idea. We'll get Murray and he'll most certainly do a better job than Ivan Reitman (no offense).
ReplyDeleteLet it go already. Bill Murray will never do 'Ghostbusters 3' and if he did the movie, you wouldn't get the best performance out of him. I love Ghostbusters as much as anyone, but they're just dragging this out longer than it needs.
ReplyDelete2 is enough. If 3 does come out it will be garbage. Fat old men running around would only be good to laugh at. gb3 should've been released in 1991-1992.
ReplyDeleteI think you've misinterpreted this. The interviewer asks him if Ghostbusters 3 is a possibility and also if he will be involved. He said, "It's a possibility" as a response to the first part of the question, but he says nothing about his involvement. If anything he was sarcastically joking by repeating what the interviewer was saying.
ReplyDeleteRegarding Bill Murray holding out on Ghostbusters 3... That film would mean something, it wouldn't just be a quick buck. Without the right script, director, and other such stuff, you could ruin or at least put a big black mark on the franchise.
ReplyDeleteThat's like one of Murray's biggest films, almost like his baby, and he doesn't want to ruin it with some half-baked sequel.
Did you look at the ghostbusters lately? Bill Murray is right, no one wants to see fat old men running after ghost nor does anyone want to see a 'new generation'. New people doing remakes suck. Collin Farrel as Crocket: a joke, The (new) A-team: crap, old movies and series are icons, sweet memories you can rewatch on dvd, others doing the part of those icons is just not done. There are a lot of talented people out there who can think of new things to do, let's go with that and let the icons be just that icons of a glorious past.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why anyone would say that Aykroyd would be offended if Murray just said "No" to GB3. They're great friends, and Aykroyd has said this before, but the two are friends first and colleagues second. So if Murray doesn't want to be in GB3, he doesn't have to, and as his friend, Aykroyd said he could happily accept that. Also, the "Sinopsis" that "slimer" had posted earlier, absolutely sucks. I say that with the Mayan-predicted date for the end of the world creeping up, they should base the story of this movie off of that; there's so many possibilites with just that to go on. I think we all agree that regardless of what the story will entail, there's something inside each and every one of us that would love to be a part of this project.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why anyone would say that Aykroyd would be offended if Murray just said "No" to GB3. They're great friends, and Aykroyd has said this before, but the two are friends first and colleagues second. So if Murray doesn't want to be in GB3, he doesn't have to, and as his friend, Aykroyd said he could happily accept that. Also, the "Sinopsis" that "slimer" had posted earlier, absolutely sucks. I say that with the Mayan-predicted date for the end of the world creeping up, they should base the story of this movie off of that; there's so many possibilites with just that to go on. I think we all agree that regardless of what the story will entail, there's something inside each and every one of us that would love to be a part of this project.
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