Ghostbusters is inarguably one of the funniest films ever made, so a comedy-themed news site can't possibly ignore the strange flux of recent news about the property, no matter how dubious and shaky it all sounds.
Many reputable movie news sites have been reporting that Ghostbusters 3 is all but in the can, based on something Dan Aykroyd said on some random country music station. But no one seems to have actually listened to the interview, so we transcribed exactly what was said.
"Well, I wrote a script called Hellbent, uh, Ghostbusters go to Hell, basically. The premise is that it's Manhelltan. There's Manhattan and there's Manhellton, and if you can basically build an interdimensional phase system so you can go from one dimension to another - we've succeeded in doing that, and we go to the Hell side of Manhattan. It's downtown, Foley Square, it's where the cops are, they're all blue Minotaurs. Uh, Central Park has these green demons with black Onyx thousand-foot-high apartment buildings with classic red devils, you know, very wealthy. We go and visit a Donald Trump-like character, who's Mr. Siffler. You know, Luke Siffler, Lucifer, Luke Siffler. So we meet the devil in it. Now it won't happen as a live-action, because Billy will not come on in a 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 loves today. Last year too. With CGI animation and the way cartoons are done, we can just do everything I ever wrote in that script for much less money."
While all his information matches up completely with previous reports of the third script, there's nothing else solid in this entire block of text. Aykroyd says he's "looking to do it," which he's been saying for years. The key moment is where he says it lives, and it lived last year too. In other words, nothing is different this year than last year, or any other year. It's still the same script being touted around Hollywood, and Aykroyd doesn't drop any studio names or any budget numbers to suggest that it's had any sort of forward movement, except that he's ridiculously reconvieved it as a CGI project to try and fix the main problem they've always faced, which is that Bill Murray thinks a sequel is a terrible idea, and no one in the world wants to watch a Ghostbusters movie without Bill Murray.
Still, it's good to hear Aykroyd is still excited about it all. His work on the script most likely accounts for a huge portion of what makes the original film so great, because of his ridiculous commitment and belief in the supernatural world. Listening to him rattle off "blue Minotaurs" as if everyone knows they exist is pretty good evidence that Aykroyd is still crazy enough to make this work. But we're just sayin' - don't get your hopes up.
In only slightly less impossible news, Ain't it Cool ran two stories on a series of clips posted on YouTube from an independently developed Ghostbusters video game, which featured impressive graphic representations of the original characters, complete with movie soundbites. The creators, ZootFly, were ordered to remove all the clips and to stop development on the game, but they're "working actively on resolving the conflict." So look for that in stores...about...probably never.
About the only solid news on the boys in grey is that you can definitely, 100% buy the fucking Ecto-1, if you're definitely, 100% filthy rich.
More on all this news as it doesn't develop.
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