Dan Aykroyd: Ghostbusters III Is Back On Again...Sort Of
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Dan Aykroyd just popped up on a country music radio station, declaring that in the last year, there's been movement in the never-ending saga of the third Ghostbusters film. Aykroyd says his script -- Hellbent: Ghostbusters Go To Hell -- will now be brought to life as some kind of CGI-animated project, with Bill Murray's blessing and even his involvement. Given the money thrown at CGI these days, this new angle doesn't automatically preclude it from being a big-budget film you'd actually want to see, but I'm guessing it won't be. It sounds like Murray finally agreed to lend his voice to this thing just to shut Danny up. Here is Aykroyd himself from the interview:
"We go to the hell side of Manhattan, downtown, Foley Square. It's all where the cops are -- they are all blue minotaurs. Central Park is this huge peat mine with green demons there, surrounded by black onyx thousand-foot high apartment buildings with classic red devils, very wealthy. We go and visit a Donald Trump-like character who is Mr. Sifler. Luke Sifler. Lu-cifer. So we meet the devil in it. Now, it won't happen as a live-action, because Billy will not come on in the live-action stage anymore for it, but he will voice his part and we're looking to do it as a CGI-animated project. It lives. It lives today. Last year it didn't. This year it lives. With CGI animation and the way these cartoons are done, we can do everything I ever wrote in that script for much less money."
Danny - we're ready to believe you. Just get it done already, and move on. Stop toying with our childhoods.
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2-03-2007 @ 1:08PM
Daniel said...
there are times when some movies shouldn't have sequels..i know there was a 2nd GB made and it wasn't all that great. but a 3rd one ?? come on now!!!! get over it and let it go!!!!!!!!!
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2-03-2007 @ 3:16PM
jTOCCO said...
i totally agree with Daniel. i grew up with both Ghostbuster movies and watching them until the tapes wore out. and as much as i still love watching them to this day (on DVD now of course), i can't help but think it's a bad idea to make a third. especially a CGI one taking place in hell.
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2-20-2007 @ 7:44PM
Dal Kalsi said...
I know CGI isn't the ideal Ghostbusters format, but animation studios like Dream Works and Pixar are making some good looking animated films, and why wouldn't anyone who grew up watching the movies and The Real Ghostbusters cartoon not want to go on one more ride with the ghostbusters?
Like Aykroyd said, CGI is cheaper--Plus, the new CGI features are pretty amazing, and the actors who played the Ghostbusters have aged in the past 20 years, so don't completely discount CGI just yet.
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