With Kill-Tacular-Tron enjoying newly-wed bliss currently, I will go ahead and cover the Ghostbuster beat a little. Over the weekend Harold Ramis spoke to MTV about his new film, The Year One, and mentioned a little tid bit about the new Ghostbusters movie:
Ramis promised that all the old core players will take part in the updated version, including Bill Murray (Dr. Peter Venkman) and Dan Aykroyd (Dr. Raymond Stantz), who co-wrote the original films. “We’re all going to be in it in different kinds of roles,” Ramis said. “We’re going to be the sage mentors. There are going to be young Ghostbusters.”
At the moment, Ramis is waiting on a first draft of the script, which is being penned by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, two writer/producers on “The Office,” who also wrote “Year One.” “Gene and Lee, both of whom I mentored, are now writing the new ‘Ghostbusters,’ ” Ramis said. “I’m consulting with them, as is Dan Aykroyd and [original director] Ivan Reitman.
“Bill Murray is just waiting for the truckload of money to arrive to get him out of his office,” Ramis joked.
So, I guess just in case there was any doubt…