Feb 26 2011
Bill Murray: Blame ‘Ghostbusters 2′ for delay of ‘3′
So Bill Murray is finally saying something almost non-flippant about Ghostbusters 3. He was on Howard Stern this week, and the topic of the third installment came up – and Murray gave a decently almost-straight answer!
It seems he hasn’t read much of the script, and that he has his reasons for being evasive and non-committal about being in Ghostbusters 3. Here is some of what he said to Stern:
“About five years after we did the first one, the clever agents got us all together in a room [for the sequel Ghostbusters 2],” Murray told Stern, in a long telephone interview. “And we really are funny together — they are funny people, Harold [Ramis] and Danny [Aykroyd] and myself — and it was Ivan [Reitman] and maybe one or two other people, and we were just really kind of blindlingly funny for about an hour or so. And the agents, there was this foam coming off of them, they had this pitch and Danny and Harold had already concocted some sort of story idea. It was a story, and it was a good story. I think I’d already read one or two that Danny rolled out before that, but this one was a good one. I said okay, we could do that one…. And [Ghostbusters 2] didn’t end up the way it was presented.”
Okay, so he was disappointed that Ghostbusters 2 didn’t turn out the way he imagined. That’s fine. Some of us understand that very well. It did suck in parts.
But dude – just make a decision already. Say a final yes or no. You’re holding this up for everyone. They’ll pay you whatever you want. If the movie sucks, the critics WILL single your performance out as the only good part. That’s guaranteed. There’s no risk for you.
Just say yes.