Monday, April 06, 2009

Who You Gonna Call? Ernie Hudson

Looks like a second sequel to the greatest movie of all time is in the works. From Comcast:

In September 2008, Columbia Pictures announced that, almost two decades after the last film came out, a new “Ghostbusters” movie is finally in the works. Recently, MTV spoke to Harold Ramis (otherwise known as Dr. Egon Spengler) about the upcoming film and got some exciting news. Most notably, Ramis dished that although the original actors (Ramis, Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray) will appear in the updated version of the film, their roles will be slightly different.

Rumor has it that Ghostbusters 3 will feature a new generation of Ghostbusters and that Judd Apatow will be producing the film. These rumors have led to speculation that Seth Rogan, Paul Rudd, Jason Segal, and the like will be donning proton packs.

Rumors aside, re-read this sentence: "Ramis dished that although the original actors (Ramis, Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray) will appear in the updated version of the film, their roles will be slightly different." Now answer me this question: "How many Ghostbusters were there?" If you answered "three," you're part of the problem. Absent from the parenthetical list of "original actors" is Ernie Hudson who played Winston Zeddemore.

Excluding Hudson is nothing new. His name didn't even appear on the promo posters for the original movie. But leaving off Winston Zeddemore in a list of Ghostbusters is akin to leaving off George Harrison in a list of Beatles.

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