This one’s been rumored awhile, and Bill Murray finally confirmed it. MailOnSunday got a great interview with Murray, who stated his conditions for returning to the franchise and gave a frank opinion on the second movie:
I’ll come back in Ghostbusters 3 only if I get to be a ghost. I said to them, “I’ll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.” So, now they are going to have me as a ghost in the film. The first 45 minutes of the original “Ghostbusters” is some of the funniest stuff ever made. The second one was disappointing, because the special-effects guys took over. I had something like two scenes– and they’re the only funny ones in the movie.
Ghostbusters 2, you just got served. Anyway, the only thing cooler than a Bill Murray ghost would be a Bill Murray ghost who crashes parties. I would let that guy borrow my car to buy a kilo. I’d even let him park it outside the Staples Center during Lakers finals.
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For some reason I get the feeling that those “most interesting man in the world” commercials were based off of Murray.
Harrelson should show up and kill him.
Bill has always kept his finger on it. This man has a cast iron liver, which he tests daily. He rolled into Smith Mountain Lake in VA to shoot What about Bob, he through it down for weeks on end. What a gluttonous warrior. I worked for a man that was his beer distributor. He said that dude could have more fun than six people. God bless him for all the laughs over the years.
Bill Murray is sick. That’s why he’s not doing the movie. Over winter from March forward, he was being treated at MUSC and in a recent picture of him on a buggy at Euston Station, he looks pretty yellow. I think he’s got liver cancer. Heaven forbid, pancreatic cancer. In any case, I think when he said he’d only do the movie as a ghost, that he meant it literally. He doesn’t expect to be around when it starts filming.