Dan Aykroyd On 'Ghostbusters 3:' "We Will Be Doing The Movie, Hopefully With Mr. Murray"

Ghostbusters 3 is not a film I'm particularly keen to see made, but at this point I really want it to happen just so people can stop asking Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray about whether or not it is going to happen. No one likes to talk about the project like Aykroyd likes to talk about it, and when the big question was put to him this week — is it happening? — he says yes, and suggests that it'll happen with or without Bill Murray. And he'd like to see one of the Criminal Minds cast members suit up to battle the supernatural.

Speaking to Dennis Miller Radio, Dan Aykroyd said,

Yes, we will be doing the movie and hopefully with Mr. Murray. That is our hope. We have an excellent script. What we have to remember is that 'Ghostbusters' is bigger than any one component, although Billy was absolutely the lead and contributive to it in a massive way, as was the director and Harold [Ramis], myself and Sigourney [Weaver]. The concept is much bigger than an individual role and the promise of 'Ghostbusters 3' is that we get to hand the equipment and the franchise down to new blood.

As the the premise, we don't have much more than the 'new blood' aspect, but Aykroyd did say — perhaps jokingly — that,

My character, Ray, is now blind in one eye and can't drive the cadillac. He's got a bad knee and can't carry the packs... Egon is too large to get into the harness. We need young blood and that's the promise. We're gonna hand it to a new generation.

Dennis Miller asks about casting, and there's nothing set there, either, despite no shortage of rumors to the contrary. Aykroyd offers up one name, but whether he's got the power to actually push for any particular person to be cast is open to question.

I like this guy Matthew Gray Gubler from the 'Criminal Minds' show. But there's going to be a casting. We're going to see everyone that wants to do it. We're going to need... three guys and a young woman.

[via ComingSoon]