Entertainment Weekly scored some quotes from actor-turned-director Harold Ramis about the long awaited sequel GHOSTBUSTERS 3, which finally picked up some steam several months ago with the announcement that Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky had been commissioned to write up the script.  Ramis confirms that you can expect all 4 original Ghostbusters to make a return - Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray, even Rick Moranis.

"Everybody said they'd do it," he told EW. "They’ll be looking at younger actors [for the lead roles], I’m sure. But we’ll be in it as mentors or advisers. I think the first one captured something that hadn’t been seen for a long time: the combination of scary movies and smart broad comedy. That was a great comic edge to play. Fortunately, we stopped before we beat it into the ground. If we’d done a third one then, no one would want to see one now, I think, cause we were headin’ downhill, even with the second one," he laughs. "We’ll see, everyone’s gonna have to love the [Ghostbusters III] script to move it forward."

Ramis says that even if the script was completed by summer, it'd take about a year of prep to do this thing right. (Eisenberg & Stupinsky are currently wrapping up the most recent season of THE OFFICE)

Of the current story, Ramis says, "It’s interesting, beyond the kind of mythology of it, there’s a personal story that’s pretty grounded."

More at the EW article HERE!

You can read Bill Murray's comments on GHOSTBUSTERS 3 from our previous news post HERE!

The original GHOSTBUSTERS was directed by Ivan Reitman from a script by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, and starred Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis and Annie Potts.