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Bill Murray Talks Ghostbusters: Afterlife And Why He Thinks It's Going To Be Really Good

Murray will appear in the new movie, which finally releases in November after a delay.

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Actor Bill Murray, who has appeared in every Ghostbusters movie to date, has shed some light on the new movie, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which is coming this year.

The new movie comes from the mind of Jason Reitman, the son of Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman. Murray told Collider that he remembers attending Jason's Bar Mitzvah, so it was surreal to hear him pitch a new Ghostbusters movie all those years later.

"I remember him calling me and saying, 'I've got an idea for another Ghostbusters. I've had this idea for years.' I thought, 'What the heck could that possibly be?' I remember him when he was a kid. I remember his Bar Mitzvah," Murray said. "I was like, 'What the heck? What does this kid know?' But he had a really, really wonderful idea that he wrote with another wonderful guy that I got to work with, Gil Kenan, who made City of Ember."

Murray said Afterlife will have a positive impact on the Ghostbusters series. He said the film "really brings it back to life."

"It really has the feel of the first one, more than the second one or the girls' one," he said of the 2016 film. "It has a different feel than two out of four. I think he's really got something. It was hard. It was really hard. That's why I think it's gonna be good."

Murray only had a small part in Afterlife, but he said it was "physically painful" to wear the Ecto-Suit again. "Wearing those packs is extremely uncomfortable. We had batteries the size of batteries," he said.

Murray went on to describe the physical nature of the scenes he filmed for Afterlife, which will involve special effects in some capacity.

"The special effects in this one are a lot of wind and dirt in your face, and there was a lot of going down and getting back up. I was like, 'What is this? What am I doing? These are like Bulgarian deadlifts, or a Russian kettlebell, getting up and down with this thing on my back,'" he said. "It was very uncomfortable. Usually, when something has a very high misery quotient, something comes of that and some quality is produced that, if you can capture it and project it, comes on the screen and affects you. I think it comes out sometime in the fall."

Afterlife was one of the many films to be delayed due to the pandemic, but it's finally releasing in November 2021. Murray said of the long-awaited debut, "It will be worth seeing."

Other stars of the earlier Ghostbusters films--including Dan Akyroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, and Annie Potts--are all set to appear in Afterlife along with Murray.

Afterlife takes the action from New York to rural Oklahoma. Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and Phoebe (Captain Marvel's McKenna Grace) are the grandkids of one of the original team, who are forced to move to an old farm with their mom. Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon also star.

For more on Afterlife, check out GameSpot's feature, "Ghostbusters Afterlife: Everything We Know About The Spooky Sequel."

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