While doing press for his latest film, Get Low, Bill Murray revealed that Ghostbusters 3 is “just a myth“. In fact, he had far more to say on the matter:
“It’s just really the movie studio. They love the franchise, they’d just like to re-create it again. All this talk is just talk. It drives me nuts, it’s just people talking. And now, it’s like, on the street people go ‘hey, hey, hey,’ you know, why don’t you go back to high school? Quit bothering me. Until someone actually creates a great script it’s just hogwash, it doesn’t mean anything. It’s interesting that people are interested in it, they’d like to see it. It was a great thing, it really was fun. Maybe it should. And if it’s such a good idea, then someone will write the screenplay.”
It seems like we finally need to come to terms with the fact that Ghostbusters 3 will never happen. We may have Sigourney Weaver or Harold Ramis drop some tiny nugget of information during an interview but that’s simply not enough. If the franchise’s biggest star isn’t willing to return, then everybody should just take that as a sign that it isn’t worth it.
Ghostbusters 3, does it need to happen?