Having watched The Player over the weekend, which opens with Tim Robbins being pitched "The Graduate, Part Two," I'm both intrigued and a little wary of the idea of "Ghostbusters III."
What did I like about Ghostbusters? Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd. I can't help feeling the director may have had something to do with it, too.
If he could get Murray to sign on as a jaded, tired old Ghostbuster, he might have something golden. But it would have to be "real," in the sense that Richard E.Grant meant "reality" in The Player. And the commercial pressure to make a franchise movie is doubtless going to trump that.
What did I like about Ghostbusters? Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd. I can't help feeling the director may have had something to do with it, too.
If he could get Murray to sign on as a jaded, tired old Ghostbuster, he might have something golden. But it would have to be "real," in the sense that Richard E.Grant meant "reality" in The Player. And the commercial pressure to make a franchise movie is doubtless going to trump that.
Or not?