Bill Murray Talks Ghostbusters 3!

The man behind one of my favorite characters in film history (Dr. Peter Venkman) just dropped an extremely juicy tidbit out at Fantastic Fest.  Check the video to hear the man promote his new film, City of Ember, which premiered at Fantastic Fest, as well as answer a few questions.  One of which was about his thoughts on Ghostbusters 3.  It sounds like he not only likes the idea of the guys from The Office writing it, but also states that enough time has passed since the second movie (which he apparently is not too fond of) to make a third one really work.  It sounds like doing the voice work for the video game got him really excited about the characters again.  

This has me all giddy and excited, like I'm ten years old again.  My one concern was that they wouldn't be able to get Murray to come back for another one.  With that concern remedied, I hope they get the ball rolling and fast track this mofo.  I want to see it on a 2010 release slate (which as it turns out, is exactly how IMDB lists it, although we all know how trustworthy that thing is).

Who else is pumped?

UPDATE: Ramis confirms Ghostbusters 3!

I won't bore you with the details, check out cinematical for the full quote from Ramis, but it sounds like everything I posted about a couple days ago is in fact true. Ramis' Year One writers are working on a script. The idea is for all four original members to come back as "mentors," Ramis specifically stating that according to Aykroyd, Dr. Venkman may even return (for those not in the know, there is some bad blood between Murray and Ramis, so Venkman's return was iffy). And Ramis confirms that the hope is the Apatow crew will produce and hopefully be involved in the acting side of things. Apparantly readers at cinematical found the Apatow crew as the new Ghostbusters problematic, where as I see it as the perfect fit, as the Apatow crew are to our generation what I'll call the Animal House crew was to theirs.

Thoughts anyone?