Ghostbusters: Afterlife

[InvisibleWoman]

I imagine they will try and get Murray involved. only concern is that none of them sound like they are signed on yet and a script is already being written so how much of a role will they have?. are there are there multiple scripts, one with Murray and one without Murray incase they can't get him?

My personal belief is that this script was written around knowing that they will 100% have Dan Ackroyd involved as Ray since he has been the most onboard with anything ghostbusters for years now.

Although it sounds like the studio pressured Murray to cameo in ghostbusters 2016 so who knows whats going on there. maybe if Ackroyd can't convince Murray, maybe Reitman can.

Murrays relationship with Ghostbusters is a weird one. i remember when he did the video game he seemed excited about the idea of coming back to the role. then it faded after a while.

I'm such a huge Bill Murray fan but he's known for being quite difficult and temperamental. I guess if the pitch is good and he's feeling the nostalgia, he'll go for it. I do wonder if he may decline as Ramis is no longer here... or perhaps he'd consider it a fitting tribute. It really is 50/50 lol.

 

[GuestStar2004]

Kevin Smith Says 'Ghostbusters' Sequel is Going to be Amazing

“Jason Reitman was over the house and did an episode of SModcast a couple weeks back and before we did the show we were sitting around talking.

“I got something,” Reitman explained. Smith asked and when Reitman revealed it would be a new Ghostbusters movie, he was beyond thrilled.

I was like, ‘holy f***, man!’ I was like, ‘I was sitting here counseling you and your break the glass plan is Ghostbusters III?! F*** me in the mouth, congratulations!,” Smith shared.

However, he added that Reitman never wanted to follow in his father’s Ghostbusting footsteps. “I was never gonna go near that,” Reitman said, “but I have a take on it.”

In fact, Reitman was leaving the next day to shoot the teaser.

“I kept it quiet and s***, so he better put me in the f****** movie,” Smith joked.

“He told me some s*** and, to be fair, he did not give it up freely. I had to drag s*** out of him and I had to trick some s*** out of him, but he told me some s*** that had me go like ‘alright, now I just need to stay alive until 2020’ because this movie is definitely worth seeing.”

“Definitely going to be a Ghostbusters movie that makes lots of folks happy,” Smith added.

“Is it ever gonna be as good as we want it to be?,” asked Bernardin.

“I think we may have something here,” Smith explained. “I think it’s gonna be special.”

Someone in the audience asked about Rick Moranis, so Smith decided to shut down the conversation before their guesswork made headlines.

“Now we’re just speculating and people are gonna write articles, ‘f****** Kevin Smith says Rick Moranis is coming out of retirement.’ It’s not f****** true at all. But Kevin Smith says that movie is gonna be f****** amazing,” he added.

Kevin Smith Says 'Ghostbusters' Sequel is Going to be Amazing

 

[Aximili86]

While that's cool to hear, Kevin kinda loves everything. I don't necessarily doubt it, between this and his raving about Star Wars IX, but yeah, I can't recall Kevin ever sounding down on a genre movie. He was all "Snyder's Batman's gonna be face-meltingly amazing!" a few years back too, like after he and Affleck had drifted apart as friends.

I'm such a huge Bill Murray fan but he's known for being quite difficult and temperamental. I guess if the pitch is good and he's feeling the nostalgia, he'll go for it. I do wonder if he may decline as Ramis is no longer here... or perhaps he'd consider it a fitting tribute. It really is 50/50 lol.

Kinda my concern too. I guess Bill & Dan probably get along pretty well still, Ernie too, and I'm pretty sure that Aykroyd & Hudson will do it if asked, but Bill's a guy that sings to his own tune. Do we know how he felt about the reboot after-the-fact? He's probably fine with it, but I don't remember reading anything one way or another.

He just may be of that "if it's not all four of us, it's not worth doing" mindset, no Ramis does seem like something Bill might take as a reason to not sign on.

Bill's probably a cool guy with people who are on his good side, but he definitely has his own way of doing things, and I don't know he'd feel any particular loyalty to Reitman's son, an obligation to do it unless the script genuinely interests him. Forget what the deal was with the game a few years back, didn't they have a fair bit of trouble getting him to do it even though the others were on board?

Kinda seems it could go either way with Murray.

 

[GuestStar2004]

I don't think its ever been explained how they got Murray onboard for the game. but he did seem enthusiastic about the game with Murray claiming he was walking down the street singing the ghostbusters theme. and around that time he did seem kinda interested in another movie.

I just think they left it too long and now has gone back into his shell about it.

 

[Snakewise]

I don't think its ever been explained how they got Murray onboard for the game. but he did seem enthusiastic about the game with Murray claiming he was walking down the street singing the ghostbusters theme. and around that time he did seem kinda interested in another movie.

I just think they left it too long and now has gone back into his shell about it.

According to the Guardian, "Even Murray returned - not with a hatful of diva demands, but wanting an assurance that Winston Zeddemore, the underwritten black character from the movies, would be elevated to full status."

Although I'm pretty sure just having to voice the character helped. Especially since he wouldn't have had to be around Harold Ramis at that time, since this was during his feud with him.

 

[henzINNIT]

If true props to Murray for backing our boy Winston. It's funny looking back at the films now with the full context of the talent involved, because it was always a 4-man team to me as a child. I miss that game man.

 

[Drizzle]

I'm glad Winston will get his due, but as I recall, and it's been a while since I've seen the film, but he did have a lot more to do in Ghostbusters II.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

Seems an ign writer stirred the pot with the whole 2016 film again and even Paul fieg chimed in.

Seriously it’s a bloody minefield

 

[Teelie]

If true props to Murray for backing our boy Winston. It's funny looking back at the films now with the full context of the talent involved, because it was always a 4-man team to me as a child. I miss that game man.

I always thought of it as a four man team. Winston came in later but he completed the team. Hopefully they give him a more important role.

 

[henzINNIT]

I'm glad Winston will get his due, but as I recall, and it's been a while since I've seen the film, but he did have a lot more to do in Ghostbusters II.

He weirdly dips in and out. Winston isn't involved in the discovery of the slime tunnel, nor the big courtroom set-piece iirc. It's strange that he's absent from this when he's doing children's parties at the beginning of the film haha

 

[Vaibow]

As a kid, watching the cartoon, Winston was integral... maybe because he was black, he stood out to me in a 'normal' way... like ameircana to me was black american men, it seemed way more 'normal' than say UK TV... does that make sense, like... if he wasn't there, it was weird. I always associated black, western men as american - growing up in the uk, actors like Murphy, Pryor, Cosby (i know), Mr T - they were just as cool and american to me as (ironically) Stallone, Arnie, Van Dame, etc - The cartoon and toys i loved. It was weird later in life revisiting it, seeing the promo material he was left out of, way he was handled etc.. anyways, even if it is just Ray and Winston, i'm still watching and loving.

 

[DyeLorean]

Yeah, the situation with Winston is weird, specially in the second one. I looks like they deliberately left him out of several scenes to make it look like the first movie (like most of GB II).

 

[DarkKnight88]

Yeah, it’s basically just trying to mirror the structure of the first film even down to Winston explaining to the Mayor in layman’s terms what’s going on.

Except, in the first movie he had one of the best lines “I have seen sh— that will turn you white.”

 

[Webfoot Hero]

He weirdly dips in and out. Winston isn't involved in the discovery of the slime tunnel, nor the big courtroom set-piece iirc. It's strange that he's absent from this when he's doing children's parties at the beginning of the film haha

As for the court scene, I've always seen it as Ray, Peter, and Egon were the ones on trial because they're the owners of the company while Winston is seen more as an employee, similar to Jeanine and Louis. I do think it was odd that he at least wouldn't show up to support the guys.

 

[TheVileOne]

Seems an ign writer stirred the pot with the whole 2016 film again and even Paul fieg chimed in.

Seriously it’s a bloody minefield

I saw that series of tweets. I mean, I guess some valid points about this new film, but yeesh.

 

[The Guard]

As for the court scene, I've always seen it as Ray, Peter, and Egon were the ones on trial because they're the owners of the company while Winston is seen more as an employee, similar to Jeanine and Louis. I do think it was odd that he at least wouldn't show up to support the guys.

Think of all the birthday parties he would miss, though. That's pure profit.

 

[Nardz937]

Murray did the video game as I think it isn't as stressful and would have had as much pressure as a third movie would have been (less work, too).

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

As for the court scene, I've always seen it as Ray, Peter, and Egon were the ones on trial because they're the owners of the company while Winston is seen more as an employee, similar to Jeanine and Louis. I do think it was odd that he at least wouldn't show up to support the guys.

He was there earlier too (as a spectator as opposed to defendant). He just disappears.

 

[henzINNIT]

You get paid to sit in a chair and talk. I'd love it haha. Murray did Garfield twice so I think he's quicker to accept V/O work.

As for the court scene, I've always seen it as Ray, Peter, and Egon were the ones on trial because they're the owners of the company while Winston is seen more as an employee, similar to Jeanine and Louis. I do think it was odd that he at least wouldn't show up to support the guys.

To be fair it makes sense that Winston wasn't on trial because he didn't dig up the street looking for slime. There's no reason he's not in that scene though.
He does speak to them in court before the trial begins. Interestingly, he seems to appear and disappear in the background during the trial, and then obviously completely mia when the action starts.

 

[DyeLorean]

You get paid to sit in a chair and talk. I'd love it haha. Murray did Garfield twice so I think he's quicker to accept V/O work.

What's funny is that he accepted to do Garfield because he thought it was a Coen Brothers film, while it actually was scripted by a different Etan Coen.

 

[DarkKnight88]

That doesn’t explain why he did the sequel though.

 

[DyeLorean]

Maybe contractual obligation?

 

[GuestStar2004]

'Ghostbusters' Sequel: Ernie Hudson Confirms He's Spoken To Director

“I reached out to Jason,” Hudson said. “I’ve talked to Jason. I’ve also had a conversation with Ivan [Reitman] just to congratulate him. They confirmed that the movie is definitely being made, because you know there’s always been rumors with Ghostbusters the last 30 years. What that’ll look like, they did not share.”

“Nobody’s offered me a job, but the reason I wanted to reach out to Jason, I remember him as a little kid on the set of Ghostbusters,” Hudson said. “The fact that he’s stepping into that, I think the fans have been wanting it so no matter what happens, I know it’s going to be a great movie. I really respect him as a filmmaker. Obviously, I’d love to be a part of it but that hasn’t so far presented itself. I know that the movie will be good.”

'Ghostbusters' Sequel: Ernie Hudson Confirms He's Spoken To Director

 

[Teelie]

I hope they do right by Hudson and give him a decent part in the movie.

 

[Arachnerd]

This movie would be the perfect opportunity to give him time to shine.