Aykroyd Claims ‘Ghostbusters 3’ Could Start Shooting This Winter

Dan Aykroyd is still blaring his ‘Ghostbusters 3’ trumpet.   His latest bit of news on the project is that filming could begin as early as this coming Winter.   Recently sitting down with the LA Times, Aykroyd explained that most of the original films cast would be returning.   This includes Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, and, even Sigourney Weaver and Bill Murray, who had previous expressed a disinterest in the project.

Aykroyd said in the interview that, despite the film’s necessity to have Murray return, the reasons for the delay were more nuanced than that.

“I don’t put not making the third movie on Billy. We can’t do that. I’ve been very busy. Harold’s been  busy, Ivan’s been busy. And a third script really  didn’t coalesce properly. And Billy, you can’t blame an artist for not wanting to  do the same thing again. He did two of them, for God’s sake. Although I’m the biggest cheerleader  as the originator of the concept but I’ve never begrudged Billy not doing a third movie. I never said he held it up or that he refused. Hey, listen, he’s an artist. You can’t force somebody into it. I’m sorry he never read my third draft because I thought it was pretty good but, look, now we’re at a point that there’s a story that he can accept and that’s going to work, and I think we’re going to be in  production fairly soon. We  could be in production by winter.”

Aykroyd believes production on the film will continue to move forward, but he realizes everything could “blow up” at any second.

The third film would serve as a new generation of ‘Ghostbusters’ of sorts, with a younger crew taking the reins from the original crew.

“I’d like it to be a passing-of-the-torch movie. Let’s revisit the old characters briefly and happily and have them there as family but let’s pass it on to a new generation.”

The screenplay for the new film has been written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (‘Year One’), and Aykroyd hopes Ivan Reitman will return to fill the director’s chair.

Time will tell if this actually gets of the ground as Aykroyd is hoping.   There has been rumors for years of a third ‘Ghostbusters’ film, and this idea of the old crew passing the torch to a younger crew has always been the central theme of the film.   This could, actually, be moving forward, and it could just be more wishful thinking on Aykroyd’s part.   Either way, we’ll keep you posted as soon as any more word comes down.

Source: LA Times (Hero Complex)