He Came, He Saw, He said "Heck no!"

Looks like Ghostbusters 3 will be pushing on without one of it's biggest stars.  Bill Murray, comedian, actor, voice performer and pop culture icon does not seem to want to do the next sequal to the classic horror/comedy.  We have all been hearing the buzz on this film for the last year and a half give or take.  Dan Akroyd has been talking about it, we know Harold Ramis is aboards, and I believe that Rick Moranis is also coming on board.   Throughout the geek reporting of this upcoming sequel were report that numerous script re-writes were sent to Mr. Murray with no positive response.   To be honest, the news has been vague on what exactly Bill's actual response it so it cannot be said he said "no."  However his decision is holding up the movie and Dan Ackroyd had to come out on Feb 29, 2012 and finally admit the movie must go on without Bill.

In terms of icon, Bill Murray has earned his figaritve battle scars.  He kicked ass in the 1970's as a member of the first and still greatest Saturday Night Live crew.  While Eddie Murphy was kicking ass all by himself with the 2nd SNL crew, Bill spent the 1980's kicking comedy movie ass and becoming a world wide pop culture icon.  In the 1990's Bill kick character and bit actor ass, still managing to be part of pop cultures most famous works in film (see Groundhog Day, Kingpin & Rushmore), and the the 21st century Bill Murray has be kicking some serious acting ass even in movie that might not have had great critical or box office success but being one of those things everyone liked about the given movie.  Everyone would like to see a full Ghostbusters team-up, even if it was for the purpose of passing the torch on in order to revive the franchise.   But Bill Murray has given more then his share while earning his well deserved pop culture stripes.  If he doesn't want to do it, can't hate on the man for not wanting to look back.