Bill Murray on ‘Ghostbusters III’: ‘This is my nightmare’

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We’ve tracked the long, spooky path of a third “Ghostbusters” -- there was the time Dan Aykroyd sat down and told the Hero Complex that it was just a matter of time before the old gang was all going to get back together and another time he said filming might be just months away. But that was May of 2009 and, by the holiday season, Sigourney Weaver said that if a new movie did happen, that she didn’t expect to be in it and that, in fact, only Bill Murray would be making it back from the original films.

Tonight on “Late Show With David Letterman,” Murray adds some more tidbits to the revival saga and makes it sound like he might be playing a post-mortem version of Peter Venkman this time around...

And, by the way, Murray has his leg in a sling because of a skiing mishap, but that doesn’t explain either his hat or the fact that his voice sounds completely different. Maybe he’s possessed...

I, for one, actually think “Ghostbusters III” with just Venkman, either dead or alive, has more comedy promise than a movie that shoehorns the whole original cast and a new generation of Ghostbusters into a film that will get crowded and creaky before you can say “Boo!” (Sorry, Mr. Aykroyd, it’s just the truth.)

Of course, I’m not sure they really need to be exhuming this cinematic corpse in the first place, but the success of the video game has eliminated any worries that the pop-culture brand might have given up the ghost in the1980s.

And speaking of that decade, just for fun go ahead and hit the play button on this one...

-- Geoff Boucher

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