Tag: Ghostbusters (1-2 of 2)

Dec 11 2012 08:07 PM ET

'Ghostbusters' live-read grabs Seth Rogen, Jack Black, and Rainn Wilson -- EXCLUSIVE

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Image Credit: Photo illustration by Daniel Niemiec; (credits: David Livingston, Kevork Djansezian, Jason Merritt)

There’s no replacing Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis as the original Ghostbusters, but if you were staging a one-night-only live version of the classic comedy, well … whom might one contact?

Seth Rogen, Jack Black, and Rainn Wilson are going to cross the streams.

The event is one of the monthly live-reads of a famous movie script organized by Juno and Up in the Air filmmaker Jason Reitman, who  — of course — has a family connection to this story. His father, Ivan Reitman, directed Ghostbusters and he remembers hanging around on the set as a little kid.

But even he was surprised when he went back and looked at the original script of the movie for Thursday night’s reading at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

It turns out, Murray was making it all up as he went along. READ FULL STORY »

Feb 29 2012 11:59 AM ET

Bill Murray will not do 'Ghostbusters 3,' admits Dan Aykroyd

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Bill Murray is dead-set against starring in another Ghostbusters movie, though he did not shred the most recent script and mail pieces back to Dan Aykroyd, the former Blues Brother tells the London Telegraph. “It’s a surety that Bill Murray will not do the movie,” he said. “However there is still interest from the studio.”

Aykroyd has been working to resurrect the franchise for more than 10 years — passing the torch to a new set of paranormal investigators, perhaps — with Murray the major stumbling block. He’s gone on television and radio and made it clear to journalists that he finds the idea repugnant.

“At this point it’s in suspended animation,” Aykroyd said. READ FULL STORY »

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