GHOSTBUSTER 3 News?

At this point, I don’t even know if it is considered news.   It’s just the latest actor/actress/director/producer/director’s son talking up a potential sequel that, if it was ever going to hit, should have done so ages ago.   This time around, we have Harold Ramis talking to Heeb Magazine about much of his career as an actor/director.   I’m not even sure if questions about GHOSTBUSTERS 3 even need to be asked.   The interviewer just raises his or her eyebrows and raises three fingers as if ordering drinks.

Here’s what Ramis had to say about the potentiality of the film.   He seems to think it’s a done deal:

Something’s going to happen. Dan [Aykroyd] did write a spec GB3 screenplay a few years ago, but no one was motivated to pursue it. Now, 25 years after the original, there seems to be some willingness to proceed and apparently a substantial public appetite for a sequel. We’ll introduce some new young Ghostbusters, and all the old guys will be in it, too. Think Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future … GB3 is progressing with plans to shoot next summer and release in 2011.

I still stand by my cynical belief that this is all a ruse against Aykroyd, that Murray, Ramis, Reitman (both of ’em), and Weaver are stifling laughs behind the big guy’s back while gently placing a proverbial “kick me” squarely between his shoulder blades.   I didn’t mention Ernie Hudson, there.   I think he’s off somewhere awaiting dividends from LEVIATHAN.

As for this GHOSTBUSTERS 3 tripe, pardon the obvious pun, but we’re sorry, Mr. Ramis, we are NOT ready to believe you.