Bill Murray: Ghostbusters Afterlife “brings it back to life”

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Bill Murray recently received the Maltin Modern Master Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival during a live virtual presentation on Friday, during which he weighed in on all things Ghostbusters past, present, and future. As transcribed by Collider, Murray seemed optimistic about Jason Reitman’s forthcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife. 

"He had a really, really wonderful idea that he wrote with another wonderful guy that I got to work with, Gil Kenan, who made City of Ember. The two of them wrote a Ghostbusters movie that really brings it back to life. It really has the feel of the first one, more than the second one or the girls’ one. It has a different feel than two out of four."

Murray also praised the cast of Paul Feig’s divisive (to put it mildly) Ghostbusters reboot (to which he memorably contributed a cameo):

"I did the one that the ladies did, and those are some of my favorite funny people. Those girls are so funny. You talk about improvising, and they did nothing but fire grenades, all day long. I sat in amazement, watching them. They circled the globe. You want a trip around the world, do a scene with those four girls sometime."

You can also watch Murray's bit on Ghostbusters via Deadline. After a long series of COVID-19 related delays, Ghostbusters: Afterlife is finally due to hit theatres November 11th.