Spoilers… they ain’t just stylish decals for your car.
Read no further if you don’t want Bill Murray-centric, plot-and gag-ruining spoilers for both ZOMBIELAND and GHOSTBUSTERS 3.
OK? Was that enough space for you? Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
So I suppose Bill Murray’s going to have to play a vampire or werewolf sometime before 2015. He already was a “zombie” in ZOMBIELAND and now, accordingly, he’ll be a ghost in GHOSTBUSTERS 3 (bolstering what Sigourney Weaver has said). In fact, he’s adamant about the later, as he recently shared with the Daily Mail in the UK…
It sounds like an awesome gimmick for the third outing -- a lot more interesting than the old GB’s training a new generation of GB’s (yeah yeah, say it’s for the kids all you want. I wasn’t feeling it on EXTREME GHOSTBUSTERS, even when I was a kid). In fact, in terms of sequel twists, it’s almost up there with Arnold coming back as a good Terminator for me.
I’m tickled by the prospect of what ol’ Dr. Venkman'll look like as a ghost. It’s probably not just going to be the garden variety “translucent you” people are thinking of, but GHOSTBUSTERS' brand of appealingly-twisted, colorfully-grotesque ghosts like Slimer. And I do appreciate the irony of it, since Akyroid and Ramis intended the happy-go-lucky Slimer to be the ghost of party-animal John Belushi, making this something of another tradition for SNL alums.
G-Man and I were debating how relevant this bit of news was to the Comic Vine community and I figured it was natural. Forgoing 88MPH's LEGION book from a couple years back and the new IDW comics, I challenge anybody to go to a comics convention these days and say GHOSTBUSTERS isn't relevant to comics audiences after you count how many jumpsuited-dudes with proton packs are walking around.
-- Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABLE for Arcana Comics and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia Comics. Watch out for the HYBRID BASTARDS! hardcover collection this March - - available for pre-order now on Amazon.com.