It’s easy to sit behind a computer and make judgment (whoops), but a lot of time we don’t know the full skinny – whether it’s true or not, that’s another story. Comedian/star Bill Murray has been getting a hefty portion of blame when it comes to the delay of Ghostbusters 3, but the star is speaking out with his side of the fiasco that sounds a lot more lighthearted. You can see his interpretation by reading below. My advice? Shut up and make the movie already before our expectations are way too high.
“You know, it’s really the studio starts this stuff,” Murray told Comingsoon. “They start saying ‘Ghostbusters.’ They want to do (it) and it’s really the world of sequels and bringing these things back again, and then some wiseacre said, ‘Hey, we got a couple of new writers who are gunna [sic] write something.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, well, maybe there’ll be some writers’ and there was always this joke, sort of a half-true, half-joke thing like, ‘Well, I’ll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.’ That was my joke, you know? So supposedly someone was writing a script where I actually got killed in the first reel and became a ghost, which I thought, ‘Well, that’s kind of clever anyway.’ But then these guys that were supposedly the writers that were going to do it, they wrote a film that came out and people saw the film* and went… ‘We’re not going to do it after all, are we?’ So it’s just a kind of a dreamy thing. They want to create a new generation of Ghostbusters, you know? They’d just like us to pass the torch.”

(*Presumably that was Harold Ramis’ last movie Year One.)