After The Death Of Harold Ramis: What Now For 'Ghostbusters III'?
The sad death of ‘Ghostbuster’s’ star Harold Remis on Monday has seen his friends and colleagues pay tribute to the much loved comedy writer, director and actor, but what does it mean for the much delayed ‘Ghostbusters III’ movie?
Then, despite originally declining, director Ivan Reitman seemed to be back on board by 2009, but a year later he seemed to be out again. For the next few years most of the rumors focused on whether Bill Murray would really come back again. Aykroyd and Murray seemed to be conflicted on whether or not Peter Venkman would make an appearance but Aykroyd seemed to confirm in August 2012 that it would be a new cast taking over the franchise, telling London’s Metro newspaper, "it's sad but we're passing it on to a new generation. 'Ghostbusters III' can be a successful movie without Bill. My preference would be to have him involved but at this point he doesn't seem to be coming and we have to move on. It's time to make the third one."
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Aykroyd went further in May 2013 when he revealed details of the Ghostbuster’s III plot by telling Larry King "We’re going to have to cast. We need four new Ghostbusters. We need four new Columbia students. It’s based upon new research that’s being done in particle physics by the young men and women at Columbia University. Basically there’s research being done that...I can say that the world or our dimension that we live in, our four planes of existence, length, height, width, and time, become threatened by some of the research that is being done. And Ghostbusters, new Ghostbusters have to come and solve the problem.” But then in October he said the script was being re-written once again when he appeared on an Australian talk show.
Now that Harold Ramis has sadly passed away, the third ‘Ghostbuster’s’ film could be thrown into more turmoil. Though it seems to have spent forever in development, Eisenberg and Stupnitsky’s script did seem to be getting close to being made. The Hollywood Reporter has today said that the script will now be tweaked again due to Remis’s death. Sadly now we know for sure that the original Ghostbusters will not appear on screen together in the third movie, no matter what form the movie takes. Fans will have to make due with the 2009 ‘Ghostbusters: The Video Game’ which Aykroyd had previously said was' essentially the third movie.’