Bill Murray shreds script, hopes
Bill Murray has finally read the script to Ghostbusters 3. He liked it so much that he reportedly shredded it and sent it back to Dan Aykroyd and Ivan Reitman, attaching the message: “No one wants to pay money to see fat, old men chasing ghosts!”
This is reported by multiple movie news websites.
This may be true, or it may not. It’s a good story, anyway.
What seems clear is that Murray doesn’t want to appear in Ghostbusters 3, which is fine with us – but he also has to sign off on it if it is to be made. He is one of the right-holders to the franchise, and without his approval, the movie can’t be made. So he’s got that going for him.
He’s wrong, though. Lots of people want to see old ghostbusters doing their thing. We certainly do.