With much of Ghost Busters 3 hinging on the entire original cast returning, it seems that Bill Murray is the only person not eager to get on board just yet. He has this thing against doing sequels since the Ghost Busters sequel and doesn’t want to do this one either.
But now it seems he is reluctantly involved and spills a bit about what Dr Peter Venkman might be doing in the film. Dying.
Speaking of which, Weaver made that oddball, off the cuff statement at a press junket for Avatar back in December where she said she thought Bill Murray was going to be in Ghostbusters 3 as a ghost.
Everyone pretty much laughed it off as the ramblings of a drunk old woman (including the studio) but now comes an interview from the website UK Mail Online with Murray and it appears that she may not have been as drunk as everyone thought. Says Murray [SPOILER TIME]:
“I said to [the people involved with the Ghostbusters 3], ‘I’ll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.’ So now they are going to have me as a ghost in the film.”
So is this Bill Murray’s trademarked snark coming off here, or is there some validity to it.
As long as he keeps being a ghost, and keeps being Venkman, I think it would work. Having him die might actually kick off the line of thinking that the guys are getting too old for this and that its time to pass the torch to a younger more technologically saavy crew of Busters.
I am ok with that.
