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Bill Murray To Appear In New ‘Ghostbusters’!
“All right! This chick is TOAST!”
After years of turmoil, Bill Murray could be haunting Paul Feig’s new Ghostbusters, says THR.
While the extent of his role is uncertain, it’s said to be a cameo, probably along the lines of Dan Aykroyd’s mysterious appearance. Heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne is also set to make an cameo.
Murray allegedly filmed a scene in the new Ghostbusters is this summer’s biggest shocker, especially after such a long and well documented hesitancy to be a part of the universe.
Murray originally portrayed Dr. Peter Venkman in the first two films, which hit theaters in 1984 and 1989. Murray told Letterman earlier this year that he was loathe to appear in a new Ghostbusters property after Ghostbusters II didn’t receive the same acclaim as the first film.
In January, we reported that Murray might play, “…Martin Heiss, a man who is a professional supernatural debunker who is out to prove that the Ghostbusters are frauds.” The role is a hysterical flip on his portrayal as Dr. Peter Venkman in which he tormented William Atherton’s Walter Peck, who eventually shut down the containment unit, setting loose thousands of haunts across New York City.
Murray’s involvement in a new Ghostbusters film has been a long and difficult road. Back in 2012, Aykroyd stated that Murray would not be involved in a third film, which was going to be directed by Ivan Reitman and was rumored to bring back Aykroyd, alongside Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, and Sigourney Weaver in their respective roles. However, in September of last year, Reitman harbored hopes that Murray would return, saying, “…he never says yes until literally just before the shoot.”
The highlight, though, was word that Murray had shredded the script and sent it back to Sony and the film’s producers.
Ghostbusters is currently filming in Boston, where Murray was spotted, and stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Chris Hemsworth. It will haunt theaters on July 22nd, 2016.
A contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is on the way, and Deadline has unveiled the first look at the new Herbert West and the pathologist drawn to his orbit.
Adam Simon (The Haunting in Connecticut, “Salem”) and Tim Metcalfe (The Haunting in Connecticut, Kalifornia) penned the script. The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallace.
Michael Grossman (“The Originals”, “Pretty Little Liars”) directs.
The new images introduce star Joseph Morgan (“Vampire Diaries“), who plays “brilliant surgeon and scientist Herbert West, who is obsessed with creating a serum to reanimate the dead.” Katie Cassidy (Speed Demon) stars opposite as the pathologist with a troubled past who joins his efforts.
Together, they prove that conquering death may be the ultimate sin against life itself.
The film’s official synopsis: “As a child, Herbert West watches his father Peter reanimate his dead mother Judith in a secret basement lab — only for Judith to mortally wound Peter and nearly kill Herbert before Peter shoots her. The trauma leaves its mark on Herbert, but so does one final image: his mother’s finger, twitching after death. Thirty years later, Herbert West is a brilliant, secretive surgeon still chasing his father’s obsession.
“Pathologist Kate Locke arrives in town and is drawn into his orbit — first through a spark at a hospital fundraiser, then through his secret lab, where he reveals a serum capable of reanimating severed tissue. Kate, hiding a dark past of her own, is thrilled rather than horrified, and moves into West’s mansion to work alongside him. Their early experiments on a cadaver succeed only briefly. West concludes that dead tissue is the problem — they need something fresher.”
Supporting cast includes Scott Aiello, Ira J Amyx, Randall Newsome, Emma Reinagal, James D. Bryce, Kathryn A Bentley, Jack Lancaster, Amy Holland Pennell, John Pierson, Mindy Shaw, Eric Dean White, Tristan Wilder Hallet, Adrienne Lamping, Aaron Crippen, and Drew Patterson.
Makeup artist Jeff Lewis (“Star Trek: Voyager,” “Star Trek: Enterprise”) and cousin Roger Lewis are heading the production via their newly established Woodlake Entertainment.
Lovecraft’s short story, first serialized in Home Brew magazine in 1922, is the first among his works to mention the fictional Miskatonic University. It was most famously adapted into a 1985 horror movie from Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West.
Herbert West: Reanimator is set in Alton, Illinois, where production is now underway.
Herbert West: Reanimator. Photo credit: Matt Lief Anderson
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