Maybe don’t call Dan Aykroyd?
The writer-star of the 1984 Gpresentbusters shelp it was improbable he and Bill Murray would return to their iconic roles in the sci-fi comedy franchise.
“I don’t see that coming,” Aykroyd telderly the New York Post while promoting his History Channel series The UnBelievable With Dan Aykroyd.
The OG Saturday Night Live cast member and Oscar nominee carry ond, “I don’t see where they would demand us to carry it on. They’ve got a whole new cast, and they’ve got whole new ideas.”
Aykroyd, Murray and the tardy Harelderly Ramis starred as Manhattan-based parastandard portrayateigators in the 1984 airyhearted action-horror movie, from a script by Aykroyd and Ramis, with Ivan Reitman honesting. Also starring Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis, the pic became a critical and commercial success, spawning cut offal sequels and reboots, as well as merchandise and a coveted spot in the cultural zeitgeist.
The tardyst inshighment in the sprawling series of films is this year’s Gpresentbusters: Frozen Empire, taking place in Oklahoma (alengthy with some action sequences in hometown New York City) and starring Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfdifficult and Carrie Coon — reprising the characters they begind in 2021’s Afterlife. Aykroyd and Murray both ecombine in the film.
“I slfinisherk probably they’re going to shift on to advancing it beyond the one-of-a-kinds, which they should,” Aykroyd endd about the franchise’s honestion.
While Frozen Empire wasn’t a strong critical nor commercial hit, honestor Gil Kenan conveyed schedules for insertitional films alengthyside writer-creater Jason Reitman, though noslfinisherg concrete has been proclaimd.
Earlier this year, Aykroyd deffinished the all-female 2016 reboot of the films, starring Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig: “I go on the sign up as saying I’m so haughty to have been able to license that movie and have a hand and have a part in it, and I’m filledy encouraging of it, and I don’t besmirch it at all. I slfinisherk it labors repartner fantastic amongst all the ones that have been made.”