• Just replace Venkman with two characters: One played by Eddie Murphy and one played by Kurt Russel, Bruce Campbell, or Jeff Bridges. Done. 

• Vodka has a flavor? I always thought it was kind of like turpentine, no matter what brand it was. 

• I would see it. Just to spite you and let you know you can't make decisions for me, I would see it. 

•  Murray has a stick up his ass, he's had it ever since Stripes. He detests sequels and only did Ghostbusters 2 out of the fact he was coerced by Akoroyd with a fatter paycheck than everyone else. And the only reason Murray did Garfield 2 was for the paycheck, a stupid move on his part for saying "I hate sequels" when he does something like that anyway. But in all honesty, Murray needs to get off his high-horse and realize he's not getting any younger so he might as well be in the movie or just throw up the cash for the movie to be made instead of prancing around with his dick in hand and jerking it off at the fans of Ghostbusters.

• I'm thinking Akroyd is just using these occasional blurbs to stay in the public eye and not be forgotten.

•  On the contrary.  Crystal Skull vodka has got to be the smoothest vodka I've ever tasted.

• Can they just make another Ghostbusters video game and forget about a third movie? I mean, everyone was pretty pleased with the game, right? There was no constant bickering and posturing through interviews. No multiple script revisions. They were just like, "Let's make a fucking video game." And BAM! Decent game.   Just make another one of those. Hell, they can make two if they want - it's not like we won't buy it. It takes a couple of hours for voice work, no one has to be in same room as someone they don't like (because at this point, I think Ernie Hudson is the only one who doesn't have a problem with someone else). A whole company will write it/make it for them, and then slap their names on it.  Then just fucking LET GHOSTBUSTERS GO.

• "FRANKIE ANGRY! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE"

• Oh my God, it's the "The Internet" (2002).

• What Aykroyd needs to do is release special editions of the Ghostbusters films with a new Venkman CGI-ed into them. Then, à la George Lucas, he should just say that Bill Murray was never intended to be in the series and that his vision is now complete. Ghostbusters 3 will then be able to move ahead and kill what's left of  our memories.

• Awesome post!!!

• Screw it, here's my dream Ghostbusters reboot line-up (assuming that the original cast are unobtainable for G3): Venkman:       Neil Patrick Harris Stantz:           Simon Pegg Spengler:        Seth Rogen Winston:         Chiwetel Ejiofor Louis Tully:     Steve Carell Dana:             Summer Glau Go on - pour your scorn upon me :-)

• LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE LIKE

• They're hoping to cast Christian Bale as Slimer. 

• Folks, you're all forgetting that this is Hollywood. If anything, saying something like this is only a negotiation tactic to get Murray on board with the film faster. "What? They can't recast me! I'm Bill Murray! Get me Columbia Pictures and tell them to send a contract over!" Even if Aykroyd said it, it doesn't mean its true.

• has anyone said "choose the form of your destructor" yet?

• Did somebody forget that this is a nerd-humor site, you dumb shit?

• He's not acting like a whiny little bitch. They asked him to do a movie, he doesn't feel it's going to live up to the quality of the original, so like a good, talented actor, he knows enough to let old classics stay just that, old classics. But they insist on making another, so he's smart enough to stay away from it. It's not his fault they keep trying to drag him into it.

•  Wow, you suck.

•  But then shouldn't it be spelled "Raymond Luxury Yacht"?

• I can buy that at Sam's Club. Now I need to.

• I'll still go see it...

• It's pronounced Throatwarbler Mangrove.

• These days I'm getting tired of Bill Murray. He's been acting like a whiny little bitch when it come to Ghostbusters 3. He wont do a sequel huh? Then why did he say yes to Ghostbusters 2 then? Ghostbusters 2 ended up pretty good.  I would still go see Ghostbusters 3 if they replaced Murray with some other actor to star as Venkman. Why should Venkman have to be a Bill Murry only character?

• Am I really the only person who doesn't care about Venkman? ... ...  Geez to me he's easily the most replaceable of the group.

• Especially Annie Potts

• You forgot "fuck Eddie Murphy for doing Norbert."

• Did he learn nothing from Blues Brothers 2000?  

•  I was wondering what it tasted like. I may still pick one or two up just for the bottle.

•  Rob, why isnt this a contest? Topless Roboteers 'If I ran the world"?

•  Well. Somebody didnt get enough hugs this valentine's day.

• orson welles as the voice gozer roy scheider as the nyc police detective the ghost of harrison ford's career can be peck

• Dan Aykroyd's Skull Vodka crap is the worst vodka ever.  My friend and I vowed to finish the bottle that we got at my bar.  Everytime we are both there we have a pact to take a shot of it and it never gets any better.  It's like rubbing alcohol blehh!

•  I know, right? Plus, this is TR. You can properly swear here. Titty-fucking Jesus cock. See?

• Not while Bernie Mac is still dead

•  What bottle isn't?

• Regardless of the current status of the Ghostbusters 3 script, Dan's Crystal Skull Vodka is outstanding.  :)

•  Why can't there just be a Real Ghostubusters movie? Granted, I liked Lorenzo Music better than Dave Coulier as Peter, but dammit, I'd watch the hell out of an animated Ghostbusters flick, especially if Tokyo Movie Shinsha was still around to animate it.

• Hey, you weren't the one misspelling Aykroyd!

•  ..... And now I feel like an absolute idiot.

• I cannot believe you just genuinely attempted to insult somebody by calling them a 'worthless punk'. I mean, I wasn't aware that uptight deans from bad eighties college movies had internet access, for one.

• even back when it was in the theaters,  i wasn't a big fan of ghostbusters.  but even then the only thing good about it was bill murray.    and actually, the fact that he wasn't even that funny (compared to say Stripes) was pretty disappointing, at the time.  i tried to watch it recently and fell asleep after an hour or so, it was so boring.  

• I searched on wikipedia, but didn't notice it correct my spelling for me (it even auto-filled in 'Akroyd')

• bitching and moaning at a site that's all about bitching and moaning (and butthurt) damn TR's gone meta!

• ha, as if, just like your jockies at a TRON screening, no prison can contain me, bricken also - vote Cthulhu 2012 for mayhem and insanity!  go aykroyd!

• Whitney as Winston.... too soon ?

• I would rather they reboot the whole thing rather than proceed even if they did have Murray on board. Too much time has past and just like Indy 4 nothing good is going to come out of it.

• Maybe a Google search next time you feel like correcting someone? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000101/

• Here is Worf's take: Fuck Dan for even thinking about this Fuck Bill for being such a prick about not doing it. At some point, it stopped being cool and detached and just became like the kid we all wanted to punch in school. Fuck Ramis for getting fat Fuck Annie Potts because I kinda still want to Fuck Sigourney because I really don't want to anymore and that depresses me. Fuck Moranis because, who exactly told you that you could retire, jackhole? Fuck Hudson for not being Eddie Murphy In short, fuck them all.

•  Pryor and Farley.

• Every time I make a hyperbole joke, I feel bad knowing that somebody will take me seriously :-)

•  Okay, this is totally going to invalidate any of my opinions, but I found Batman & Robin to be the best of the Burton\Schumacher films. <a href="http://www.comicsalliance.com/tag/Remedial%20Batmanology/">I used to hate it, but this series of Remedial Batmanology posts from Comics Alliance made me rethink and rewatch them all, and yeah, B&R is the best of that series . . . . </a>

• Crazy McCrazypants can make the movie. We aren't going to watch it and we will all talk as much shit about it as possible, so no one goes and sees it. Now go back to trying to revitalize your career based on other people's accomplishments. That's right I said it.  You were an expendable character.  Murray pretty much carried you.

• Let's do a better job right now... Let's cast an all ghost Ghostbuster squad. Don't tell me they can't do it. John Wayne just sold me some tires on TV a minute ago... Ideas? I think we'd have to start with Candy & Belushi... We need 2 more.. Come on people...

• But it's pronounced "Akroyd."

• Actually, it does.  All of BAtman is retroactivelyruined by Batman & Robin. All of it.  period.

• I am intriged by your views and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

• Only in your silly "real" world.  In MY universe, it's spelled however I want!

• Actually, it IS "Aykroyd."

• To be fair,I would like to state for the record that his CRYSTAL HEAD VODKA is some awesome stuff...best vodka I've ever had,and the bottle is fun to talk to when you're drunk off your ass.

• Terry Gilliam did something like that with Heath Ledger's character in Dr. Parnassus and it worked well.

• Sorry, this is www.toplessrobot.com, you must have taken a wrong turn somewhere.

• I imagine legions of stormtroopers dedicated to preventing such a thing from happening. Instead of brownshirts, they're neon-pipingshirts?

• NOT POSSIBLE IN BRICKEN'S AMERICA

•  Will Dr. Abraxas be your running mate?

•  ... You may have written a flawless argument, you may have convinced me to your side if I was bothered about the future of the Ghostbusters franchise, you may have even been able to turn me away from TR... ...but what self-respecting hater would use the words "bitches" and fuckin'" and then finish with "worthless punk"?  Come on, go all out!  If it were me writing this, I can think of at least 5 strong or stronger words to finish on. ...oh yeah, also TR's doing fine without your input, mate.  We don't need "whiny bitches" (as you so eloquently put it) to listen to and follow for advice.  Thanks for the heads up, wanker. XD

• Maybe they can recast him with Lorenzo Musi—oh. Right. Maybe Dave Coulier, then? Voicing a Venkman muppet?

•  I'd like to get some of that national endowment for MOTU please.

• Will national elections from that time onward be determined by whoever has the most number of TR shirts? A mental endurance test by reading the Comicsnix fan fiction of your choice? 

• Or worse, The Matrix sequels!

• In other news Alan Moore has just been hired to play Peter Venkeman in the Ghostbusters reboot ...  

• Nah, this seems more like William Atherton to me.

• But what if the new Tron movies end up like the Star Wars prequels, or the Bayformers movies, or DC's new 52?

• I would totally see Ghostbusters 3 in theaters about a dozen times if they recast Bill Murray just to spite this annoying asshole on Facebook who went on this huge rant about this the other day . . . I'm vindictive, even if it ends up hurting me. Seriously though, I'm not a fan of the idea, but I try not to dismiss a movie when it's still in the rumors stage. I'm sick of angry fanboys (not you personally, Rob,) decrying EVERYTHING before they can even give it a chance. I thought Heath Ledger was an unusual but interesting choice for the Joker. A group of people I knew online were foaming at the mouth for months, and that was before they even saw a photo or trailer. And when they DID see the photo, they flipped their shits even more. And look at how that turned out. Freaking amazing performance in a freaking amazing movie. Yes, someone else playing Venkman would most likely suck at Bayformers levels, but who knows? Maybe a recasting would bring us a heretofore unknown comedic genius? I'm just sick of angrily decrying ideas before they can even be given a chance. And really, with this and Watchmen, would a crappy prequel-or-sequel destroy the enjoyment of the originals? The fact Burton and Schumacher made some bad Batman movie doesn't mean there's no way I can enjoy Nolan's. Alternately, the absolute suckitude of Final Fantasy 13 doesn't mean I don't still enjoy going back to play FF3 (er, FF6 . . . I still can't get used to that . . . . )

• Dad ... Dad is this you again? I asked you not to get on my laptop when I'm away at work ....  

•  Why choose one? We can say that Venkman's ghost is serially possessing people. That'll let us throw all three of them in!

• If I ran the world: 1) No Bayformers 2) A new Tron movie every year 3) Internment/rehabilitation camps for erotic fan fiction writers 4) A National Endowment for Masters of the Universe figures 5) Dan Aykroyd would get the medication he needs to realize recasting Bill Murray is the worst fucking idea he's ever had. Vote Bricken 2012

• I hear he is in talks to get John Candy to join the ghost busting team.

• Oh uh, Rob, it's "Akroyd," not "Aykroyd." Doon't feel bad, I'm proofing some stuff on Mormonism that's been misspelling Oliver Cowdery's name.  Everyone makes typos!

• While I would like to believe that there is no way in hell a Ghostbusters movie would happen without Murray, this is the same douche bag that made a Blues Brothers movie without Belushi.  I would imagine a Murray-less Ghostbusters would be equal to or less the quality of a Belushi-less Blues Brothers.

• To defuse the tension, here is a picture of a spider pooping skulls. http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y185/Ridureyu/figures/SpiderYokai.png Wow, that sounds disturbingly like FFF, doesn't it?

• Much of NTJ behavior strikes others as madness,and then.... then it starts working and you wonder why you ever had any doubts.

• I can't decide who would be better for the Venkman role. Seth Rogen, Michael Cera, or Jack Black. They're all such great comedians!!!

• Also, Beluishi already joined the cast as a ghost. He was surprisingly popular with the fans. {g}

• I notice that the "Scribol" article weblink thingy kicked up "Bill Murray Kills Ghostbusters 3 Again...", reporting Murray's position from back in December that he doesn't want to do another one. I suspect this has some bearing on Aykroyd's intention to just reboot from scratch and recast the characters.

• Mr. Akroyd at least have the balls to post under your own name. Oh and aliens did not shape human history nor is there evidence ghosts exist.

• You do realize that the only thing more pathetic than bitching and whining on a website about what they do to a franchise is people bitching and whining about that, right?

• I'm sorry that the creator of a movie franchise didn't get your permission before he decided to continue working on his own creation. It is clear, that if you ran the world, everything would be great because you believe we're all here to cater to your childish whims and pointless wants. Think about it: If hollywood actually listened to whiny fanboy bitches like you, nothing of any value would ever come about and originality would be dead and buried. You can't even run a fuckin' website properly, so learn how to do that before you think you have any idea or right to tell someone else how to do the job, you worthless punk.

• Aykroyd told Empire that  "None of us would want to do the movie without having [Moranis] as a participant", but apparently it's fine to do it without Bill Murray?

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