This sticky situation has managed to work Dan Aykroyd into a tizzy due to the fact that the studio hasn't even paid him for the work he's already done on the script, which he sarcastically calls "production number XP39789." In other words, this entire project has basically been a series of actors and studios politely dicking around a single, solitary force, otherwise known as "the heart of the Ghostbusters" ...
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It Has Been All About Dan Aykroyd This Whole Time
When Harold Ramis died, Ernie Hudson publicly stated that there "wouldn't be a Ghostbusters" without him. And when Ramis was alive, most of his comments were about how belated sequels tend to blow harder than a nuclear blast tossing a fridge. How about director Ivan Reitman? He recently quit as the potential director of a third installment due to Ramis' passing, taking up a producing credit instead.
And what was Aykroyd's response to all of this?
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See that Blues Brothers avatar? It's a warning.
He's ready to go.
After all, he's been the sole captain of the SS Ruin Your Childhood for 15 fucking years now, avowing the project since 1999. Every time you hear new plot details or rumors squelched? That's Dan. New script draft? Dan is overseeing that shit. Heck, he recently entertained the idea that there would be fourth and fifth films after the new one.
Why? Like us, Dan Aykroyd loves Ghostbusters and doesn't want to see it go away. But the harsh reality is that loving something is not always enough to bring it back.
It's not going to happen. We're as sure of this as we are of the atomic weight of cobalt.
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