i think its a terrible idea, sounds like a RGB episode, rather than a quality big budget film, you might as well cast Dave Coulier as Peter. I know these movies are supposed to be silly and ridiculous, but that concept is just crossing the ‘tongue-in-cheek’ line by about 5 feet. terrible.

Venkman being the inside man/gb spy of the underworld, i thought that was Slimer's job? i mean afterall they're basically writing a RGB episode (HA!)…and did Venkman ever take being a GB seriously in the first place ?

Then again, this all speculation, so i should calm down, and the “ghost” thing was just a classic Bill Murray shrug-off about being in the movie. then it got blown way out of proportion.

I think Bill was just being sarcastic when he said he wanted to be a ghost for the movie. Actually I think he just said that out of annoyence. What I've heard is that supposidly that ghostbusters 3 is going to be like Exreme Ghostbusters in a way. The original ghostbusters will be hiring new ghostbusters, training them, and then after they've gotten enough training the orignal ghostbusters will retire. That is basically the storyline, right?

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akroyd says again that venkman will be a ghost , gotta check the date but this is during a crystal skull signing interview

I stand by that, after seeing the CGI in the video game on PS3, they should go ahead with a CGI film and get everyone to voice the characters. They can do something between the first two films that way, or a sequel, or prequel, or whatever…lots they can do. Get the vocals recorded and you can CGI several films for the next several years and give us more stories.

I'd prefer that over Ghost Venkman any day.

I'm brand new to the boards here, but I've been a visitor for a long time.

How come the idea of communicating with ghosts has never been brought up? I mean other than in the cartoons (which weren't really considered canon anyway) why hasn't that ever been an option?

I personally think that a GB3 movie would involve some kind of communication with the ghost world. This would make the entire Venkman-Ghost scenario maybe make a little more sense. It would also make for foreshadowing as Egon could have been working on some kind of device used to speak to the ghosts they had been capturing.

It seems like with almost 30 years of busting, that these guys wouldn't just sit on innovation. Wouldn't there be some new device? The game touched on these scenarios, and I'm sure that by now Ghosts aren't always going to be wild animals, I mean there's clearly a hierarchy of materialization in the ghost world, and surely by now since the Ghostbusters clearly know how to classify these differences, that they've done more to specialize some kind of communication with these otherwise random spirits.

That's just my thoughts on the whole thing, and Venkman being a ghost doesn't necessarily mean that he's dead, he could be in a coma. Yeah it's not necessarily a brand new idea, but he could be dead in the first reel, only to come back by the third just in time to save the guys. It would be the “role of a lifetime” if Venkman was the sole reason for saving the hides of the rest of the squad.