One of the more hilarious (and perhaps in a way, sad) stories of the summer has been Bill Murray’s frequent and awesomely vicious takedowns of the forever gestating “Ghostbusters 3,” a movie that only Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis seem to want to make.
Bloody Disgusting are reporting a few new developments that have come to them from a source that is apparently close to the project. Word is that, as previously reported, the story will find the older quartet of Ghostbusters passing on the reigns to a new generation (Aykroyd once named pie-in-the-sky possibilities like Alyssa Milano and Eliza Dushku; he clearly has a eye for Academy-Award winning talent). The twist? One of the new Ghostbusters will be none other than the Sigourney Weaver’s character’s baby in “Ghostbusters 2,” who will turn out to be the Peter Venkman’s love-child with Dana (yeah, don’t worry, we don’t remember that either; even Bill Murray would rather forget that unfortunate sequel). Consider the tenuous tie to the previous films completed.
As suggested and rumored in the past, Weaver and Rick Moranis are expected (or hoped) to return for the third film, but does it even matter? At this point, “Ghostbusters 3” seems like the butt of a cruel joke, especially after Murray threw an ugly dagger at the project in bringing up “Year One” (ooh, yeah, he went there) — Harold Ramis’ last (brutally awful) directorial effort written by the would-be “Ghostbusters 3” scribes Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg. Of course, it’s said that Ivan Reitman will eventually direct and not Ramis (as once discussed as a possibility), and it’s possible given the fact that Reitman’s new movie, now called “No Strings” (or at least according to the always-fallible IMDB; it’s formerly titled “Fuckbuddies”), starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher, will be completed and in theaters by January. Honestly at this point, do you, the audience, even care?
