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Dan Aykroyd determined to make conventional, all-Dan Aykroyd Ghostbusters 3

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Appearing on both SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show and Unmasked With Ron Bennington this week, Aykroyd shared some very similarly worded encouraging statements about Paul Feig’s reboot, twice declaring, “I’ve got three daughters, so I’m all for female empowerment.” He also acknowledged that the Ghostbusters franchise itself was, like a broken-down Ecto-1, in desperate need of “a new engine, new exhaust, new steering”—a statement Aykroyd felt comfortable making, because he also has cars.

But while he supports the idea of completely rebooting Ghostbusters into a “parallel reality,” where Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, and Leslie Jones are the first and only Ghostbusters who have ever existed, and he praised all those actors as “masters” of their craft, and he hailed Paul Feig’s “great, great script”—that, nevertheless, “we will work on and make better”—he’s also hopeful this much-needed overhaul will be just the thing to drag his old, broken-down Ghostbusters idea out of the scrap yard and slap a new coat of paint on it.

“Let’s get this one made and that will reinvigorate the franchise and then we’ll go on to maybe doing a more conventional third sequel as we were planning and another idea I have for it,” Aykroyd said, fairly certain that the only thing that was preventing that conventional third sequel in the first place was that people simply needed to be reminded of Ghostbusters’ existence.

Aykroyd admitted that Murray has “moved on,” and declared, “I don’t think we will ever work together again,”