Bill Murray probably doing Ghostbusters 3 after all
So a few news outlets have spoken to Bill Murray, and he seems to be warming to the thought of being a part of Ghostbusters 3 after all.
To Nymag.com he said: “[...] I may do [Ghostbusters 3] just to keep people from talking about it, because it’s driving me nuts. It’s like a did-you-sleep-with–Marilyn Monroe kind of thing. You’re like, huh? What? Someone starts a story that we’re making a movie and it has this amazing life. I don’t know why. I guess people really wanna see it or it’s just the only newsworthy thing in my Internet file or something.”
And to USA Today, Murray stated: “”And [Ghostbusters] is still one of the biggest movies of all time. And ever since that story broke, everywhere I go people are like, “So are you gonna make [Ghostbusters 3]?” I was down in Austin at South by Southwest, and you go at it hard down there—fun but, man, you need to sleep for days afterwards. Anyhow, I got into it one night with a bunch of younger people who were like, Oh, I love Peter Venkman! I grew up with Peter Venkman! We got to talking, and the more we talked about it, the more I thought, Oh Christ, I should just do this thing.”
This sounds promising to us, but we’re not so naïve that we think Murray’s off-the-cuff statements settle anything. This is not the last we’ll hear of Bill Murray being difficult to get into his ghostbuster suit.
But for now we’ll remain optimists and hope that Ghostbusters 3 will be released in 2012.