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Aykroyd says “Ghostbusters : Hellbent” is happening
For about a decade now, Dan Ayrkoyd has been trying to get Slimer and the back-packed boys back together for a third “Ghostbusters” film. Though he has written an outline, and though the studio had expressed a latent interest, there was one factor that thwarted the plans : Bill Murray. Yep, Carl Spackler didn’t want any part of a second sequel.
Today, comes news that Aykroyd has worked out a away around Murray – all thanks to Steve Jobbs. According to Aykroyd, via CISNFM, Murray has agreed to participate in the film, so long as he doesn’t actually have to appear in it. Solution? CGI. A completely CGI sequel.
In Aykroyd’s original outline for “Ghostbusters 3”, Dr’s Stantz (Aykroyd), Spengler (Harold Ramis) and Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) cope with Venkman’s (Bill Murray) departure. They recruit a group of young bucks and try to deal with a new wave of spooks, who are being ejected from an overcrowded hell by that looks exactly like Manhattan. Louis (Rick Moranis), Janine (Annie Potts) and Dana (Sigourney Weaver) all have cameos, while Venkman only appears near the end of the film.
Later, Aykroyd revealed more about his idea. “My notion was that Hell exists simultaneously, and in the same place as our consensus reality. But it’s like a film shutter — it’s the darkness between the 24 frames. When we’re blinking on, they’re off — so we blink alternately with this other reality, which is Hell.
“So all the Ghostbusters would need to do [to go to Hell] is take themselves “out of phase” one beat. And we create a device to do it, and it’s in a warehouse in Brooklyn. And when we step out of the chamber, it looks just like New York — but it’s Hell. Everything’s gridlocked — no cars are moving, no vehicles are moving, and all the drivers are swearing at each other in different foreign languages. No two people speak the same language. It’s all the worst things about modern urban life, just magnified.
“And Heaven was across the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey — which was irony. The Ghostbusters had to make this journey from lower Manhattan to the George Washington Bridge.
No word if the new CGI film will follow that same stencil, but since Aykroyd is still referring to the film as “Ghostbusters : Hellbent” (or “Ghostbusters Go to Hell”), and that was the name on the original outline, it’d seem so.
Thanks to ‘Aint it Cool‘
