'Ghostbusters III' a no-go without Bill Murray

His latest movie may be called "No Strings Attached," but it seems there are quite a few hitches involved in getting director Ivan Reitman's planned "Ghostbusters" sequel off the ground.

"All of the actors but one have read [the script] and loved it," Reitman tells CNN of "Ghostbusters III." "We're waiting for one of them to read it and see where we are.”

The holdout?

“That would be the famous Bill Murray — Mr. Venkman," Reitman says of the quirky karaoke crasher/funnyman, who starred alongside Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis in "Ghostbusters" (1984) and "Ghostbusters II" (1989).

Reitman, 64, adds that he feels the latest installment is better than the previous two movies. "I'm really jazzed about it," he tells CNN.

And if Murray doesn't like it? “We have a very complicated deal," says Reitman. "Let's just put it that way."

i loved the first one, but the second sucked... they are all kind of old now, so i wonder what it would be about?

They are old, senile and fart dust and think that it was a ghost.

I read they are bringing in a younger cast to train them as Ghostbusters. Ben Stiller is reportedly in talks.

Over the years, various rumours have floated around about the film, including reports stating that Murray was the only original Ghostbuster not interested as he disliked sequels, and that Ramis wanted Ben Stiller to join the cast.

During a 2009 interview, Ramis stated that the project stalled due to lack of interest and motivation to do it. Both Ramis and Aykroyd have confirmed that the script would call for a new group of younger Ghostbusters taking the lead, with Aykroyd stating, "There’ll be a whole new generation that has to be trained and a leader that you'll all love when you meet her. There'll be lots of cadets, boys and girls who'll be learning how to use the neuron splitter and the inter-planet interceptor - new tools to enable them to slip from dimension to dimension." Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd were in the planning stages and the film was expected to be released in 2011 with Bill Murray on board. Rick Moranis had not officially stated whether he will or will not be a part of the sequel as he has retired from acting. Sigourney Weaver said she expected to return alongside all the other original cast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_(franchise)#Ghostbusters_III_.282012.29

kinda sounds like the cartoon they had on for a while...