I don't like the idea of Venkman as a ghost at all, and would rather not have a GB3 if it would be how Bill wants it. Honestly, I'd be perfectly fine with GB continuing with more video games rather than more movies if the movies go down this path.

Andreas;159130
Will Bill Murray be a spook in Ghostbusters III?

Ivan Reitman ain't afraid of no sequels! But the legendary Ghostbusters director-producer admits it took the unexpected success of a video game tie-in and a bit of not-so-subtle maneuvering by the studio to resurrect the once-huge comedy franchise from the dead—and he addresses Bill Murray's professed desire to play a more ethereal version of Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters III.

“Certainly Sony has been all over us for about two decades now, trying to get this going,” Reitman told us at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. "We have this sort of very interesting deal in which we really control the forward progress of the movie. did a very interesting thing: They actually hired these two writers on their own, without consulting us, and basically said, ‘We’re going to start.'"
Reitman said screenwriters Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky—best known for their work on NBC's The Office and the film Year One—are "very good writers, fortunately, and they wrote a first draft that was pretty good, considering that they didn't really talk to us that much. And I've since then been working with them for the last four or five months, just trying to get more of the kind of spirit of the film into it.“


Reitman added: ”There seems to be a lot of enthusiasm from everybody" about the return of original stars Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Sigourney Weaver. “We'll see. It's still not a reality. There are no deals. There's no real finished script.”
Murray was long assumed to be the lone holdout from the original cast, sliming plans for sequels for years. But the actor recently suggested that he'd return to the role under one condition: that he gets to play a ghost.

“We're well aware of his interest,” Reitman said with a chuckle when asked whether Murray's Venkman will be going ectoplasmic. "I've had some wonderful conversations with him—and that's all I'll say.
“It was really such a special part of my life, and such a turning point, really, in my career,” recalled Reitman. "I love working with those men. I've worked with Bill Murray five times and Dan Aykroyd a few times and Harold Ramis five or six times, and Sigourney Weaver I worked with three times. So the fact that they put out this video game that turned out to be one of the biggest video games of the year sort of reminded us how much resonance the story still seems to have."


source via Proton Charging

Sounds like a bunch of hotair bs, or just lip service and no real answers.

Slime Lord;159268
I don't like the idea of Venkman as a ghost at all, and would rather not have a GB3 if it would be how Bill wants it. Honestly, I'd be perfectly fine with GB continuing with more video games rather than more movies if the movies go down this path.

You know, I would be ok with that. OR maybe if Murray really wants to cause issue, wouldn't it be great is Aykroyd, Ramis, and Hudson got together and put some money into an indy film like Return of The Ghostbusters was. OR go to Braxton films and pass it off to those guys, as the Denver GBs were good. Something, but this sounds dumb and didn't Murray not like GB2 due to be sounding dumb?

The ONLY way this ghost business can work is if it happens like this. The original team are on a call when Venkman is killed. His soul is sent to the netherword/underworld/hell/ and the Ghostbusters need to save him. So they enlist the help of a group of new recruits to help save Venkman from the other side. This could use parts from Dan's original script for Hellbent and new parts as well. The main thing necesairy to make this film a success is to bring back all four Ghostbusters as living beings. Kill Venkman, and you detach the audience.

sandmanfvr;159269
You know, I would be ok with that. OR maybe if Murray really wants to cause issue, wouldn't it be great is Aykroyd, Ramis, and Hudson got together and put some money into an indy film like Return of The Ghostbusters was. OR go to Braxton films and pass it off to those guys, as the Denver GBs were good. Something, but this sounds dumb and didn't Murray not like GB2 due to be sounding dumb?

As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), Murray seemingly doesn't like GB2 mainly due to the much more lukewarm reception it got compared to the original which in turn soured his own opinion. I've seen promotional interviews on YouTube where he seems to be enthusiastic about GB2 and eager for it to be released. He's said he didn't like GB2 because he felt there was too much focus on the slime and special effects, and not enough on the GBs (something I respectfully disagree with). But I've also heard Murray dislikes sequels overall, and wasn't he reluctant to even initially do GB2 at all? Pretty sure I read somewhere that he felt GB wasn't a sequel-worthy property.

Slime Lord;159307
As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong), Murray seemingly doesn't like GB2 mainly due to the much more lukewarm reception it got compared to the original which in turn soured his own opinion. I've seen promotional interviews on YouTube where he seems to be enthusiastic about GB2 and eager for it to be released. He's said he didn't like GB2 because he felt there was too much focus on the slime and special effects, and not enough on the GBs (something I respectfully disagree with). But I've also heard Murray dislikes sequels overall, and wasn't he reluctant to even initially do GB2 at all? Pretty sure I read somewhere that he felt GB wasn't a sequel-worthy property.

I know he hates sequels, but from what I have always read he hated the GB2 script but being so popular and riding on RGB fame he did it. Let me see the vids of him excited about the movie (I believe you) but since he says that, I think Murray don't know what the hell he wants.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD_6lRJMdr4


He seems pretty excited and optimistic for GB2 there, and I think you can find some more interviews there with him (just search for GB2 on YouTube). I recall he's said in recent times the original script for GB2 he said he liked, but IMO the original script from what I read up on it sounded awful (the one with the trolls living underground or something along those lines, IIRC). It seems Murray just hates sequels in general and doesn't like doing them, and GB2 was one of the rare occasions he ever did it.

Maybe Louis can be killed instead. Killing a principal off early in as film isn't wise, but I wouldn't believe outdated information.

I wouldn't want Louis or anyone else killed off for that matter. It's so pointless to me to reunite the cast only to kill off some of the principal members.

Dr.D;159305
The main thing necesairy to make this film a success is to bring back all four Ghostbusters as living beings. Kill Venkman, and you detach the audience.

Slime Lord;159377
It's so pointless to me to reunite the cast only to kill off some of the principal members.

I think those pretty much sum up why I'm resisting it so much.

With the guys not having been together for over twenty years, it feels like somewhat of a cheat to me to bring them back, but to not really reunite all of them in the way I had been waiting for.

I was hoping we were past things like this when Bill started saying he was excited about the franchise again. It's yet to become fact of course, but with two confirming it and Ivan not denying it, I don't have a great feeling.

Dr.D;159305
The ONLY way this ghost business can work is if it happens like this. The original team are on a call when Venkman is killed. His soul is sent to the netherword/underworld/hell/ and the Ghostbusters need to save him. So they enlist the help of a group of new recruits to help save Venkman from the other side. This could use parts from Dan's original script for Hellbent and new parts as well. The main thing necesairy to make this film a success is to bring back all four Ghostbusters as living beings. Kill Venkman, and you detach the audience.

This is pretty much the theme of the “The Other Side” comic series from IDW… Granted different things can be done with certain plot points, but that series was not very well received, and in my own opinion was downright awful.