We recently speculated whether the proposed third installment in the “Ghostbusters” franchise would be enough of a draw card to get the enigmatic Bill Murray and his on-screen partner Sigourney Weaver to reprise their roles as Peter and Dana Venkman.
Speaking with SciFiSquad now, Weaver has revealed that she doesn’t “expect to have anything to do with” the sequel though claims Murray will in fact be returning. When asked about what her and Murray ‘s on-screen relationship will be like in ‘Ghostbusters 3,” Weaver proclaimed, “Non-existent.”
“Yeah, I’m pretty sure [the relationship won’t be featured]. I think they’re still writing it, but I’d be very surprised … You never know. I just did a benefit with Bill, and we love working together, but I think they’re trying to create something new completely with the Ghostbusters, although I know Bill is in it. I hope my little son Oscar [from “Ghostbusters 2″] is a Ghostbuster!”
Further, on the prospect of her own appearance in the sequel, Weaver announced: “No, I don’t expect to have anything to do with it, although I wish them well.” This comes after co-star Dan Aykroyd optimistically told us just two weeks ago that “Weaver will be in it, I know. We’ll make that happen.” Ummm, what happened to that? Perhaps, they’re still buttering Weaver up but, by the sounds it, she won’t be reprising her role as Dana Venkman any time soon.
Also, despite Weaver more or less confirming Murray’s interest and commitment to the project, the actor is more than notorious for dropping in and out of projects willy-nilly. This was recently noted by Harold Ramis: “I have no idea . We have no social relationship whatsoever, it’d be hard to predict. But you know, the encouraging thing is, he’s very elusive…” Encouraging? Maybe until he doesn’t show up day one.
“Ghostbusters 3” is currently being written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (“The Office,” “Year One”) with a tentative 2011 release date in mind.
can we just wait for an official announcement? im so tired of this Bill Murray is in, Bill Murray is out bull. I dont even think Bill Murray knows at this point, and i'd personally advise him against it considering the Year One writers are behind this. I never thought i'd see so much anticipation for a Ghostbusters sequel. The second was horrible, what makes anyone think this will be different? I smell Crystal Skull level backlash on the horizon.
If the naysayers have their way, there no doubt will be a Crystal Skull level backlash. They're certainly working overtime on every comments section and message board to drill that comparison into people's heads each time a new piece of news comes to light, and this movie isn't even written yet.
Maybe that just tells you people don't really want it.
It depends. Some who bash it this early on don't want it, sure, that speaks for itself. There are those though who say they've waited for twenty years, but admittedly choose to go negative because they're afraid it might let them down like something else has. If you've held out hope that something would still happen after they said there was no chance in hell, then just a hint of very early optimism shouldn't be unrealistic.
No problem here with someone just not being into the idea of a third, but I wish they would be as blunt as you were and just come out and say that. If that's the bottom line, then all this talk about the reasons why they predict it's going to be bad seems kind of pointless to me, because it's not likely they could be won over to begin with.
The only thing that bothers me is the Crystal Skull thing. I just find that to be unfair, since we don't know nearly enough about this yet to punish it for what we thought about that flick.