Ghostbusters 3 News

So BigShinyRobot.com (got to love that name) has talked to Ernie Hudson about many things, not least Ghostbusters 3. It seems everyone wants to get it made, but they just can’t agree on how. Here are some of the things Ernie said:

“Over the past year or so I’ve talked to the main players. I’ve talked to Sigourney Weaver. I’ve talked to Bill, Danny, Harold and Ivan Reitman. Everybody is like, “Yah, we want to do [Ghostbusters 3], but…” And that’s the “but”. Getting everyone to agree with what needs to be done. I think Bill especially wants to make it something exceptional. What that means to him may be different to what it means to Ivan Reitman or Danny Aykroyd. I know everybody wants to do it. But getting them to agree on a script [is the key]. For me, I think if we just get a script together, so much of it happened on the moment of the set that it’ll be fine. But that’s just my opinion. I’m the last guy *chuckles* that has any input. But I’d love to see it happen.”

So would we. But not all of this is up to the cast, of course. Sony also want to have their say:

“[...] when you get the studios involved… In the first one we were kind of left alone. And that’s why I think it came through so strong. We were making this movie, and it was our movie. And I think even with the second one you started to get a lot of people wanting certain things. Wanted to make certain things happen as opposed to really making a movie. So I would imagine this is going to be even worse. But we’ll see. I’d love to see it happen, but like I said I don’t have any input into it.”

So there you have it. It sounds as if everyone wants Ghostbusters 3 to get made, they just can’t agree on how.

Is that good news? Projects have been torpedoed for good by smaller problems than that. And Bill Murray is of course right in wanting to make it exceptional, but what that means to him is anyone’s guess. His 2004 movie The Life Aquatic was indeed exceptional, but possibly not in the good way. Lots of people want to have their say in this, it seems.

We’ll choose to consider this good news. At least no one is definitely opposed to making Ghostbusters 3.

MTV.com talked to Ernie Hudsom about Ghostbusters 3, and while he doesn’t have any more information about the movie than we do, he has certain wishes for his character, Winston Zeddmore.

‘If it does go forward I want to see Winston be all the way through the movie for once for God’s sake – not an hour into the movie, here comes Winston.’ Hudson told MTV. ‘Also, I’d like to see Winston have some sort of back story. Where does Winston go? Is he married? Does he have an apartment? Does he live on the street? Who is this Winston guy that we’ve seen two movies about?’

Hudson continued: ‘I think now, 25 years later, that the fans know Winston so let’s just acknowledge the fact that Winston is there. Now if we have a poster with Ghostbusters, hopefully we can have Winston IN the poster so I’m not sitting at some autograph show signing over Bill Murray’s face. That would be nice.’

And he is just as uninformed about the state of the movie as everyone else: ‘When I hear something officially from the studio saying the movie is happening, I’d love to talk about it but in the meantime, I’m just saying stuff that fans have told me. I don’t really know what’s going on. I did see all the guys involved, and everyone wants to do it, so I hope that means we will be doing it, but I can’t say for sure. Until someone calls me with a steady paycheck, then I’m just a guy hanging out here looking for a job.’

We like both Ernie and Winston, and we can only agree with these points. But if shooting of Ghostbusters 3 is to start this summer, surely it’s about time to notify the principal actors? We smell a delay.

Winnipeg Free Press recently talked to Ernie Hudson about a convention in Toronto that he’s attending, but they were also able to glean a little information about Ghostbusters 3.

While Hudson hasn’t received official word from the studio, he said he’s heard from co-stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, as well as director Ivan Reitman, that they want to see it happen.

“Ivan said … ‘If we get a script it looks like it’s going to happen,’ so that’s the only thing official,” said Hudson.

“But then he said, ‘We have to have young guys.’ Now I don’t quite know how to interpret that.”

If/when it happens, Hudson hopes it’s “a movie that stands on its own” and is “unique in of itself,” he said.

“I don’t want it to be like ‘Starsky & Hutch’ where the guys are standing by the car looking old and tired and that’s it. But I have no idea.”

Seems it as up in the air as ever. Nah, just kidding. Ghostbusters 3 has to happen. There’s too much money in it for a studio to mess it up, even though they are trying. In closing, we really like Ernie’s attitude and can only agree with his sentiments that it be a movie that won’t suck.