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And who wouldn’t – you gutter-minded perv, you.
James Mundy, design artist-for-hire, has posted a series of concept art, including a hand-crafted model, for a Ghostbusters Ecto-3 – a futuristic concept built onto a Hummer chassis. While the vehicle is decaled for a third movie, it is just wishful thinking – beautiful, boxy, aggressive, ghost-bustin’ wishful thinking.
Movieweb has a short Q&A with Harold Ramis about a third Ghostbusters film. A lot of it is stuff we’ve heard before, just expounded on. Also, he shoots down a couple of rumours – the third movie will focus on the Mayan calendar and the end-of-the-world and new Ghostbusters to add to the team (everybody is a possibility, nobody is signed.)
Can you share anything about Dr. Egon’s life in 2012? Is he having a hard time dealing with the effects of the Mayan Calendar? Has he found love? Does he have a kid?
Harold Ramis: I had two initial first instincts. One was that Egon had become a shaved head Buddhist monk. That is not going to happen. The thing that I pitched for my character is that he’s been living in Geneva, and he works for the Institute of Imaginary Science. The work we are doing doesn’t require any conceptual, intellectual, special, or mathematical models for what we are doing. Even we don’t know what we are doing. It’s that theoretical.
He also attributes to the popularity of the franchise and the current possibility of a third movie to Dan Aykroyd, which was not only classy, but absolutely correct.
It’s Dan Aykroyd. He has been keeping this idea alive. This is his original concept, and he’s wanted to do this for a while. He even wrote a spec script years ago. The twenty-fifth anniversary came, we had the new Blu-ray, and the videogame release, and people still seem so very excited about this movie. The response from the game was tremendous. Everywhere I went, people were asking about it. I thought, why not? Why can’t there be a Ghostbusters 3? I have to remind people that they didn’t like Ghostbusters 2 very much. But they still seem to want a third one. Finally, Murray said yes. I thought, “Well, we have a good script. Why not?” Ivan Reitman said yes. It came be done. It can happen.
Understandably pleased with themselves, Making Of sat down with Harold Ramis, moved him onto the topic of Ghostbusters 3, and kept him there for 7 minutes – easily the longest he’s talked about it to date.
Haven’t had a chance to watch all the way through, but apparently he touches on a lot of solid points, like the role of CGI in the movie, the old script, etc.
This is most a chat between Ain’t It Cool News and Harold Ramis, talking about his work, Year One, etc., but as expected talk turns to Ghostbusters 3, which is then entirely wasted by AICN asking the same questions as everyone else. However, they do manage to get Ramis to say what has been common knowledge, but overlooked by a lot of enthusiastic fans – Ghostbusters 3 has not begun production. This is important info, because the project could fall apart tomorrow, but everyone already has 2012 marked on their calendar. Thanks to Nevil for the link.
Capone: They’re still writing, okay. So, we’ve been hearing all sorts of wild casting rumors about younger…
HR: No, none of that’s real. There will be young ghostbusters, but no specific casting is real, and no director is committed.
Capone: And, for the four main cast members…
HR: Everyone said they’d be in it.
Capone: Okay, it’s strictly a verbal thing at this point?
HR: Yeah, because there’s no…The studio does not want to commit to us at this point. It’s very…When everyone says ‘yes’ that will trigger a very expensive deal for the powers that be.
Ryan LeClair pointed out that the cover of the new issue of Empire magazine has a call-out “Ghostbusters 3: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis speak!”, but that doesn’t say whether that’s a recycling of existing info or actually talking to them directly. If someone spots the magazine and finds out, let us know.