Dan Aykroyd - Ghostbusters game is the third movie, future projects may just end up as games instead of movies

A few more bits from Mr. Aykroyd’s press junkit…

On how the game influenced the third “Ghostbusters” movie: “I’d want to see the third movie made. I think [the video game] is the third movie and if everything is creative and right, and this game helps get the third movie made… We have a good concept there; [we have] the young writers from ‘The Office.’ I’ve worked with Harold [Ramis] on [upcoming film] ‘Year One,’ which is coming out. The Book of Genesis adapted into a comedy? Who but Harold Ramis could pull that off! So these two writers — [Lee] Eisenberg and [Gene] Stupnitsky – they sound like a vaudeville team or a law firm — are brilliant young guys. And they come up with a good story.

On whether he thinks games are a better home for stories like “Ghostbusters”: “I have two incredible — what I think are great — science-fiction stories myself right now that I think I’m just going to skip the movies altogether. And I’m going to find maybe some gamers and maybe go with [Atari] again. And I’ll just give them the scripts and say, ‘Pretend this movie got made.’ Which today, games make movies.”

Sounds like Mr. Aykroyd is pretty serious about video games as of right now. I sure hope the sales for this upcoming game turn out to be stellar. I think Dan Aykroyd could be a great person to raise the status of games, at least in the public eye.

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