"Ghostbusters: the Videogame" Revives Interest in Third Movie
As we told you last September, Columbia Pictures wanted a new "Ghosbusters" movie. And why not? It's been 25 years since Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson first busted ghosts in Manhattan.
Now, the team is back in a new videogame and they're all in consensus -- a third movie is coming!
The videogame, which will be released Tuesday (June 16th) by Atari (how apropo), features the voice of the original cast including the lovely Annie Potts as the receptionist. The setting of the game is New York circa 1991, two years after "Ghostbusters II."
(For a review of the game, click here)
Aykroyd and Ramis, who co-wrote the first two films, consider this videogame the third film of the franchise, albeit in virtual form.
Ramis said getting the cast back together for the game rekindled their interest for the third flick. He told Hollywood Reporter, "It had sort of been contemplated before, and Dan had once written a spec script about it, which was not bad, but there was no group will that galvanized around that script," Ramis said.
"I think what the game did was revive our belief in it and certainly demonstrated that there was a public appetite and interest in it."
Let's hope Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, co-exec producers of "The Office," hurry and finish the script for "Ghostbusters 3."
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