You know, spooky things have been abound at hecklerspray HQ of late.
We've tried bringing this story to you on no more than two separate occasions now – and each time it's perished in a disastrous, headline-obliterating internet meltdown. Honestly… you'd almost think that supernatural forces were at work. Supernatural forces that made us smash up our keyboards, break our chairs into little pieces and scream "you worthless shitting bastard" at every PC screen within a five-mile radius.
Still. In a roundabout way, it's quite apt that such creepy goings-on should coincide with the following newsblast: that Dan Ackroyd has gone and confirmed that Ghostbusters 3 – officially the most eagerly awaited '80s franchise revival this side of Kindergarten Cop: The Sophomore Years – is now definitely going ahead.
Ackroyd revealed:
“Ghostbusters 3 lives today. A year ago it didn’t. I wrote a script called Hell Bent, Ghostbusters go to hell basically. The premise is that it’s Manhellton. There’s Manhattan and ManHELLton. And if you can build an inter-dimensional phase system so that you can go from one dimension to another. We’ve succeeded doing that and we go to the hell side. Downtown, Folley Square – where the cops are, they’re all blue minotaurs. Central Park is this huge deep mine, green demons there, surrounded by black onyx thousand foot high apartment buildings with classic red devils. Very wealthy. And we go visit a Donald Trump like character – Mr. Siffler. Lou Siffler, Lucifer. So I will say we meet the devil in it. It won’t happen as a live action because Billy [Murray] won’t come on to the live action but he will voice his part, as a CGI animated project. With CGI, and animation, the way these cartoons are done, we can do everything I wrote in that script for a lot less money.”
By far the most surreal aspect of all this, however, is that Dan Ackroyd chose to break this exclusive news during an interview with tiny US country radio network CISN.
Jesus Christ, Danny-boy. You give them an exclusive and not us? Even after all those bundles of flowers we sent you? And boxes of chocolates? And excrement-scrawled notes reading 'you can activate my proton-pack anytime'?
Honestly. Sometimes we think you don't want our love.
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Brendan says
A cartoon Ghostbusters 3 poses several important questions, namely what colour is Egon’s going to be? Dark like the films or blonde like The Real Ghostbusters? I MUST NOE
CA Highway Petrol says
Can Eddie Murphy play the token black guy Winston. I got an idea, maybe Winston can be out of shape and overweight. Because the world needs another movie with Eddie Murphy in a fat suit.