Bill Murray is not like other Hollywood actors. For starters, he’s really cool despite doing some lousy films. Apparently, he doesn’t even have an agent or manager and only looks at scripts after he’s checked the mailbox of a personal phone number… which he hardly ever checks.

This could well be the reason why Ghostbusters 3 has been long rumoured, but unable to get moving.

And, rightly, movie execs are going to scrap the film if Bill Murray refuses to sign up. Basically, there’s no replacing Bill Murray.

Plans for the third in the franchise have been muttered about for years now. And with cinema keen to redux, rehash and remake ’80s films, now is the time for another Ghostbusters.

However, Sigourney Weaver has opened that mouth of hers, admitting that she and the rest of the cast are not going to get the go-ahead if Murray doesn’t sign-on.

And yes, typically, he says he’s not even looked at the script yet.

Asked if there were any updates on the project, Sigourney said:

“I guess Bill hasn’t read the script yet. I don’t think any of us would do it if Bill said no. Why would we do that? I think the whole point is to get together and have fun.”

That said, Weaver knows what Murray is like. She’s insistent that she wouldn’t dream of calling Super Bill about the film because she knows what he’s like.

“I would never do that [call him about it]. I don’t think that works with Bill. I did actually ask him about The Guys, because he did it with me originally. I called the 800 number and left the message. And when he doesn’t respond, then you know that he’s not interested. It’s actually a pretty good system. I envy him in a way. No email, no phone calls, no agent, I don’t know what he does.”

So while Ghostbusters 3 seems as far away as ever, the Bill Murray Is Really Cool PR Machine is still kicking into overdrive.

The swine.

Next Week: Slimer’s son talks about his potential role in the film, which has been described as ‘a bit like Scrappy Doo’. Get ready to hate.

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Bill Murray is pretty freaking cool.  Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Zombieland, Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Groundhog Day are all awesome, and mostly because of him.  He’s just so much cooler than you’ll ever be.

So what do you do when you meet one of the coolest men on the planet? Invite him into your karaoke booth of course!

‘Haha’, you say?  ‘In your classic comedy inspired soggy dreams’ you say?  Well, screw you! It happened! To a guy called Mike.  We don’t know him, but we heard about him.  A friend told us about it.

What do you mean you don’t believe us?  Listen to Mike, he’ll tell you how it went happened; “IT’S BILL F@#KING MURRAY!”  See, we told you.  You still don’t believe us? Mike and his buddies are in a karaoke bar in New York and Bill Murray walks in.  Lost in Translation tells us that this is entirely possible, so what’s the problem?

Mike just did what hecklerspray would be too gooey eyed with admiration and too pissed of cheap Appletinis to do.  He spoke to Bill Murray.  Let us reiterate, HE SPOKE TO BILL F@#KING MURRAY! Mike instantly wins cool points.  Oh but, the funniest man in this universe or any other is invited to join Mike and his friends.

WHICH HE DOES!

Mike tells it better than we ever could:

“we get a knock on the door… IT’S BILL F@#KING MURRAY!” Bill wanders in with his friends, sits down, is really nice and very very cool, orders a round of “some weird green drink and wouldn’t tell us what it was.”

We respect you Mike, but we also hate you with venomous jealousy, so tell us, how was it?

“We were all shocked of course but at that point we were already pretty trashed so the party just kept going. He was super nice and they all fit right in. His girl was really cute, and as far as i remember, from Amsterdam.”

Bill Murray, lots of booze, hot girls.  The dream is complete…. or is it?

Mike, the total bastard, gets to sing with Bill.

Yeah, what a lucky tosser.

Sing with Bill Murray.

That’s like playing ping-pong with Elvis.

Or Tiddleywinks with God.

“Bill and I sang a duet of an Elvis song called, “Marie’s the Name.” Random I know, but so was the night. We were all drinking and dancing and screaming our asses off.”

The only way this could be any cooler is if Elvis himself was singing backing while Frank Sinatra mixed cocktails.  Life isn’t fair.  hecklerspray lives and breathes celebrity coolness.  And what do we get for it?  Kris Silver.  Who looks a bit like David Baddiel.

We are very jealous of all this, especially since it’s clearly true.  What? Lingering doubts?  Don’t you know everything hecklerspray ever says is totally true? You want proof? Fine, have a look at this other blog, here, where there are loads of pictures from the event. Just remember to come back to us.

Or we’ll start shooting puppies.

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Death and zombies, death and zombies – go together like a horse and carriage. Or so Frank Sinatra did not sing, ever.

But he should have done, because they are a great combination.

Like fish and chips or Madonna and the chronic desire to plunge nails into your eyes.

Of course, that’s because zombies are actually dead, but still somehow manage to die again and deal out death.

(Before you start, we know they are actually ‘undead’).

Anyway, the point is there are a lot of good death scenes in zombie movies – and after having so much fun writing our last zombie list – we decided to do it all over again.

Obviously, we have stuck some different clips in there (mostly) for you to enjoy, but essentially it was just an excuse to enjoy looking up some of our favourite horror films.

We hope you do too.

15. Celebrity death
From: Dawn Of The Dead (2004)

Bored, the survivors use a sniper rifle to pick out celebrity lookalikes in the parking lot. One of the best moments from a remake that is surprisingly good.

Zack Snyder take a bow.

14. Clown death
From: Zombieland (2007)

I hate clowns. God damn painted freaks.

13. Elevator death
From: Day of the Dead (1985)

Not your average elevator death. Shaun of the Dead paid homage to this scene.

12. Tummy ache

From: Day of the Dead

Genuinely quite stomach-churning.

11. Eye popping

From: Diary of the Dead

The only good bit in the film.

10. Kiss of death
From: 28 Weeks Later

Robert Carlyle has just been reunited with his wife, who he’d abandoned for dead in the first scene of the film.
What he doesn’t realise, is she’s still infected with the Rage.

9. Head explosion!!!
From: Dawn of the Dead (1978)

The second most famous head explosion in movie history.

8. Piano death
From: Zombieland

Woman takes out a zombie Harold Lloyd-style.

7. “I kick ass for the Lord!”
From: Braindead (1992)

A local priest goes all Bruce Lee on some zombies, but fails to see the point.

6. Don’t go into the cellar
From: Evil Dead 2 (1987)

Redneck is turned into a red pool.

5. Splitting headache
From: Dead Snow (2009)

Norwegian guy gets his head literally torn apart.

4. Lawnmower man
From: Braindead (1992)

Cutting the zombies down to size.

3. That bit with the tree (You know the one)

From: Evil Dead (1981)

Obviously, one of the most notorious deaths in horror history.

2. Kill Bill
From: Zombieland

Bill Murray in one of the best cameos ever.

1. “Choke on em”
From: Day of the Dead (1986)

Surely one of the finest deaths in horror history.

[Compiled by Holly Clarke]

Zombies – got to love them. Seeing their slow, shiftless bodies somehow catch up with and eat the brains of their unwitting, fully agile victims never ceases to amaze.

Their grotesque faces, their cold, emotionless eyes and laboured movements – it’s just like watching X Factor, only remarkably not as popular.

We cannot get enough of them. Maybe we secretly want to be one.

Maybe the idea of doing the same mindless things every day, with only our constant, base desires to keep us company is in some way appealing to us.

We could always do with a bit more brains, right? In fact, we are pretty sure a substantial proportion of the population have already been turned into zombies. How else can you explain the baffling popularity of Miranda – otherwise known as the ‘death of art’?

Plus, I am pretty sure the old guy who lives in flat six downstairs is already one. It would certainly explain the smell that comes from under his door and the annoying shuffling he does around his flat during the night.

Anyway, zombie films have given us some of the most memorable moments in horror cinema – and here at hecklerspray right now, we are in a giving mood. So much so we thought we would come up with a nice, bite-sized list of the most remarkable scenes in zombie movie history, complete with videos.

So pick the bones out of this little lot.

22. Eyeball munch
From: Evil Dead 2 (1987)

Getting a mouthful of eyeball. (I asked a zombie movie fanatic and she said the Evil Dead series counts).

21. Chopper chopper
From: Dawn of the Dead (1978)

A zombie looking a bit like one of the monsters from Carry on Screaming forgets to duck near a helicopter. Mindless idiot.

20. Eat The Parents
From: Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Young Karen Cooper, daughter of Harry and Helen, grows up into a zombie. One of the most iconic moments in zombie movie history.

19. A leg up
From: Planet Terror (2007)

Rose McGowan gets her leg eaten, but still makes the best out of a bad situation.

18. Headache
From: Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Probably the most famous death in zombie history. So bad, it was even banned in Britain. Boo.

17. Nazi cocksucker
From: Dead Snow (2009)

Brilliant clip from a really funny film.

16. London is finally quiet
From: 28 Days Later (2002)

Why can’t London really be as quiet as this.

15. Kill Bill
From: Zombieland (2009)

Bill Murray pretends to be a zombie as a prank. Is killed.

14. Zombie vs. Shark
From: Zombi 2 (1979)

The title says it all.

13. “More brains”
From: Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Eat enough brains and you get some.

12. Piano death
From: Zombieland (2009)

Woman takes out a zombie Harold Lloyd style.

11. Robert Carlyle does a runner
From: 28 Weeks Later (2007)

I never trusted that Robert Carlyle. Such a shifty face. Abandons his wife to be killed and is then chased by an ever-growing number of zombies. Surely, one of the best openings to a film ever.

10. “I kick ass for the Lord”!
From: Braindead (1992)

A local priest, looking remarkably like Father Ted, goes Jackie Chan on some zombies.

9. Lawnmower man
From: Braindead (1992)

Peter Jackson sets new lows in film gore. Sheer brilliance.

8. Zombie Baby
From: Dawn of the Dead (2004)

I am not sure what is more shocking: The fact a baby becomes a zombie, or the fact the Dawn of the Dead remake was actually good.

7. Kiss of death
From: 28 Weeks Later (2007)

Robert Carlyle has just been reunited with his wife, who he’d abandoned for dead in the first scene of the film. What he doesn’t realise, is she’s still infected with the Rage.

6. ‘Who’s laughing now’
From: Evil Dead 2 (1987)

Not sure what is the most shocking: the fact he cuts his own possesses hand off while laughing or the fact he thinks putting it under the tap would solve the problem.

5. Tarantino’s cock rots off
From: Planet Terror (2007)

Hard to watch this scene, to be honest.

4. “Choke on em”
From: Day of the Dead (1986)

Apart from the private in Dog Soldiers shouting at a werewolf as he is about to eat him, “I hope I give you the shits”, this is the greatest line ever uttered during a character’s death.

3. Baby blender
From: Braindead (1992)

That is no way to look after a baby.

2. That bit with the tree (You know the one)
From: Evil Dead (1981)

Raped by a err, zombie tree – WTF?

1. Giving it some real head
From: Re-animator (1985)

Simply brilliant.

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It’s pointless trying to second guess Bill Murray – just when you’ve got him pegged as crazy old joker he’ll turn up in a Jim Jarmusch movie.

Then, just when you’ve decided that Bill Murray is an indie wunderkid he’ll go and do Garfield 2: A Tale Of Two Kitties. Then, right when Bill Murray is being accused by his ex-wife of being a violent drunken drug addict, he goes and leaps out of plane to raise money for wounded war veterans, which he plans to do next month.

It’s so confusing, isn’t it? Why can’t Bill Murray just try and combine his various identities into one manageable identity. Yes, that’s right, we are suggesting that Bill Murray makes a zany comedy movie about a cartoon cat searching for meaning in his life by getting leathered on booze, jumping out of a plane and punching a woman in the face. That’s exactly what we’re suggesting. What of it?

Bill Murray is notoriously hard to pin down. Instead of an agent he’s got a voicemail that he chooses to answer as and when he wants to. Instead of an entourage he has whichever students are at the nearest drunken party he decides to crash. Instead of Access Hollywood he has bewildering appearances on American Chopper.

But lately, even by his standards, things seem to be going awry in Bill Murray’s life. Maybe all these years of playing middle-aged men in the throes of deep mid-life crises have rubbed off, because Bill certainly seems to be sliding off in that direction.

Look at the facts. Drink driving arrest? Check. Recent messy divorce from a long-term wife? Check. Completely unexplainable decision to star as the mayor of an underground city in a generic Walden Media film that nobody in their right mind would watch? Sadly, check.

Jumping out of an aeroplane? An actual flying aeroplane in the sky? On purpose? We’ll be darned if Bill Murray isn’t planning to do that too. We fear that leather trousers and an earring are only weeks away. E! Online reports:

The funnyman has signed up to parachute out of a plane next month to honor veterans during the 50th Annual Chicago Air and Water Show. The publicity stunt is on behalf of USO Illinois, an organization that provides aid to wounded war vets at home and overseas.

Wait, so Bill Murray is only jumping out of a plane to help injured soldiers? That’s not very mid-life crisisy at all is it?

Bill Murray, it’s important you stick to within the badly-defined parameters we set you. Look, let’s meet in the middle. You can still jump out of a plane, but you have to grow a ponytail first. And then eye up a dolly bird young enough to be your granddaughter. And then pretend that you think Vampire Weekend are cool. It’s the only way.

It must be great to be married to a comedic actor.

You would always be rolling on the floor with laughter and your text messages would be constantly filled with zany LOLs and your knee would have a constant bruise from all that knee-slapping hilarity.

That is unless you’re Bill Murray’s wife, in which case you’d be rolling on the floor after being clocked by your drunk, drugged up husband and you’d have non-hilarity induced bruises. Or at least, those are some of the things Bill Murray’s wife is saying led to her filing for divorce from Bill Murray just now.

Now what do we learn here, ladies? We learn that marrying a man for his stunning good-looks does not make for a lasting relationship.

Bill Murray has brought us many things over the years. He’s brought us movies about ghosts and busters and ghostbusters, and a bunch of other movies, but we really just remember him for Ghostbusters. He also brought many an unfortunate-looking funny men across the world hope in the ways of acquiring ladies like Andie McDowell and Scarlett Johansson.

According to Bill Murray’s wife of ten years, Jennifer Butler Murray, Bill Murray also brought chapters from the Charlie Sheen sex addiction and Dennis Rodman physical violence into their marriage, along with a little pot smoking and whatnot. According to court documents, Bill Murray’s wife cited the following reasons for wanting to divorce Bill Murray:

“…adultery, addiction to marijuana and alcohol, abusive behavior, physical abuse, sexual addictions and frequent abandonment.”

Bill Murray’s wife isn’t just mad that Bill Murray frequently abandoned her at grocery stores, public parks, parties, and the Oscars, but there are lots of juicy, sickening examples in the documents saying that Bill Murray:

“would often leave the state or country without telling [his wife]; travels overseas where he engaged in public and private altercations and sexual liaisons; hit her in the face and then told her she was ‘lucky he didn’t kill her.’ And left threatening voice messages on the home telephone which the minor children have heard.”

Surely, we’ll be hearing statements from Camp Bill pretty soon about how these allegations are false and how Bill Murray’s wife is actually the slimy twat in all of this. Actually, Bill Murray doesn’t have a publicist, or an agent, so maybe we’ll just get a slurred, belligerent voice mail from Bill Murray calling everyone stupid little pigs, confusing himself with Alec Baldwin, and confusing us with his kids.