While promoting the third season of The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd, the Ghostbusters co-creator and star joined Aaron Sagers on Talking Strange to discuss strange phenomena and, naturally, the conversation soon turned to Ghostbusters, writes Ghostbuster News‘ Jason.
When asked about whether the world could use a dose of positively charged pink slime, like the kind that united New York in Ghostbusters II, Aykroyd agreed while touching on the future of the franchise, particularly the next feature film.
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“Well, yeah, we sure could use pink slime at any time. We’ll see what we do as far as the next Ghostbusters feature, and there will be one,” Aykroyd assures us.
“It’s just what avenue we’re going to take. I think that given creative people in the world we’re living in today, how can you not factor in some of what we’re looking at in terms of the human species’ execrable behavior. That may be looked at. Maybe it manifests itself in some kind of an evil formation. Not sure, you know, Jason (Reitman) is working with the creative crew there at Ghost Corps out there in Los Angeles. And I’ll be very interested to see what emerges.”
Aykroyd also spoke about the upcoming Ghostbusters animated series currently in development from Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix, and while not necessarily an update, shared his positive opinion on what he has seen so far.
“We are doing a really neat animated Ghostbusters. It’ll be coming out quite soon. The characters and the whole take and the look of Manhattan is really exciting. So, I think maybe there’s an opportunity there for those writers to address some of the issues that we need to heal and move on with our lives.”
Continuing on, Aykroyd was also asked about his cameo as Ray Stantz in 1995’s Casper, below, in which he playfully confirmed what many fans have long debated, being asked if that moment was canon: “I think so. Given the fact that Spielberg asked for me and said, ‘Come and do this,’ and that they built me in there. Of course, it’s a beautiful nod to what we were doing with Ivan (Reitman) and everybody. I think you’ve got to include it there in the canon. No doubt.”
I knew it! Thoughts on all this, I know you have them and I wanna hear ’em!
Ray Stantz in Casper (1995):
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