Is Bill Murray In This?

So, no confirmation of either Bill Murray or Dan Aykroyd? But they're bringing back William Atherton?

That makes no sense! Walter Peck barely had any interactions with Winston (Ernie Hudson). If anything, Winston was the one Ghostbuster who went easy on him, so, if Peck is back for revenge against the Ghostbusters, it makes ZERO sense for him to be gunning for Winston.

Then again, that's modern Hollywood for you. Politics, forced (as opposed to organic) diversity, and cancel culture takes precedence over story and *LOGIC*.

I get the impression that Jason Reitman doesn't even like his father's films. He's part of the new generation of indoctrinated Millennial wokesters who've turned their backs on everything their forebearers held dear.

I think they have -- again as with Afterlife -- secured Dan Akroyd, Ernie Hudson AND the elusive Bill Murray to be in Frozen Empire.

Which continues a Hollywood tale about "the humanization of Bill Murray" as regards Ghostbusters . With a twist.

The story. Though Dan Akroyd was one of the originators of the Ghostbusters idea(with his pal John Belushi pencilled in to appear with Dan), once Belushi died and Murray was brought it -- it pretty much became a "Bill Murray movie" because Murray proved to have a more natural star quality for the movies than Akroyd. Indeed, Harold Ramis proved next-in-line funny in the movie after Murray, and Hudson was famously brought into the story a little too late. It was Bill Murray's show.

Then they made Ghostbusters II in 1989 which wasn't up to the improvisation and wit of the first one, as I recall even Bill Murray just wasn't that funny in it.

And for years -- DECADES -- thereafter, Bill Murray personally stopped any sequels from being made. He even stopped Akroyd from making sequels in which Bill Murray didn't have to appear -- rather righteously, Murray was "protecting the first movie" from any further damage after Ghostbusters II.

Murray's top stardom somewhat eroded as the 80s shifted to the 90s(where Groundhog's Day was his big hit) to the 21st Centuray. And Murray had some sort of falling out with Harold Ramis(who directed him in Groundhog's Day.) And Murray started to get a bad reputation "behind the scenes' as tempermental and mean to people.

And then in 2014, Harold Ramis died.

And the humanization of Bill Murray began. He appeared on the Oscar broadcast to briefly honor Ramis while announcing his awards category.

Then he gave clearance to the 2016 Ghostbusters remake -- with the all-female cast -- and took a cameo in it, (NOT playing his character from the original.)

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