Rick Moranis. You see cameos by all the other main people from the original Ghostbusters. Aside from the Ghostbusters from the first movie you also see cameos by Annie Potts and Sigourney Weaver at the very end. Bill Murray gets thrown out a window, Dan Ackroyd is a taxi driver and Ernie Hudson runs a funeral home and owns the hearse that they borrow for their ghost busting business. Even the late Harold Ramis makes a cameo as a statue. I kept waiting for a Rick Moranis cameo and was disappointed when he didn’t make one. From what I heard he just didn’t want to be in the movie. They offered him a big check to make an appearance but he just didn’t want to do it.
Yeah he basically said it made no sense and didn’t want to be shoe horned in.
Yeah that Louis Tully guy… He didnt want to be part of it because he stated that he has retired from acting. From what I read. the movie has referance of him. The Contatment Unit has the Keymaster and Gate Keeper writen on it.
I am aware everyone else showed up. But they could have kept their roles and just stay on the story line. Like. say, what would they be doing 27 years AFTER Ghostbusters 2?
But Paul threw all that away and screwed some of that up by making a remake. Honestly. it wouldnt have to be a remake but it would be more of a 3rd film. That was my option.
To be clear, he said it made no sense for him to do one day of shooting for something he did years ago. It’s nothing about being “shoe horned in”, he’s just very picky. Hell, he didn’t even voice his own character on that new Bob and Doug cartoon.
He’s not really retired either as much as taking it low. Most of his recent work was small local things, nothing big. He’s been offered parts over the years, but said they just didn’t interest him.
Moranis lost his wife tragically then retired from acting to raise his daughters. Leave the man alone, he doesn’t want to be involved anymore.
He sounds like a great guy in real life. Sorely missed from acting. Little Shop of Horrors is immense.
Agreed. My favorite Moranis character:
He’s not retired anymore, his kids have grown up. He’s picky about what he does now, I’m hoping he signs onto Spaceballs 2.
He’s more than earned the right to be picky. He’s a fucking comedy genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5USqOOf6RUM
Arguably the funniest person in Ghostbusters.
Looks like he hasn’t done much besides a few appearances since 2009.
I like to think of the video game as the 3rd story of the Ghostbusters. I say story not film because it isn’t a film its a video game but it is a story nonetheless about the Ghostbusters which takes place after the 2nd film. Im not sure if this is canonical but I like to think of it as such.
Anyway what I would’ve wanted to see as a 3rd film 27 years later is the original Ghostbusters are all retired and they have opened a ghost busting school where they all teach. It could show the next lineage of Ghostbusters and ghost busting students and they could call it “Ghostbuster Academy.” I’ve heard that it might sound too much like, “Police Academy,” but I like the idea.
I heard they were going to make a sequel to Spaceballs and the were going to call it, “Spaceballs 3 The Search For 2” but now with John Candy dead its unlikely.
Yeah. i read that the Ghostbusters 2009 is actually taken place right after GB2. This time they bought a rookie onboard. I have that game for the Playstation 2. I just havent been able to play it much to go though the whole storyline. My console broke down after playing too much WWE Smackdown VS Raw simply because some moron stole my memory card with all my WWE saves and he had formated or deleted everything. Anyway. when I get my PS2 console fixed I may go back in playing Ghostbusters the video game.
While I do agree with Photon Guy about seeing the retired Ghostbusters holding a class to teach about ghosts and so forth. But what about the time where they have to go support themselves? In Extreme Ghostbusters, Peter, Ray and Wiston left and Egon stayed around. I think he was the mentor for the new team? Only in one episode. Peter, Ray and Wiston showed up so Egon went with them. They evenually decide to team up with all 8 ghostbusters together.
Egon could have been the one teaching all the classes. He could have a masters degree. Ray might have something like Egon but I think his role was just tne engineer?
On a side note. You like to say that Ghostbusters the Video game (2009) was like Ghostbusters 3. Not by film but on a story line. Its the same as having a Back to the Future the Video game. which takes place AFTER BTTF 3. Not on film but the storyline is just that.
As for Janine. she would have been a secretary for a law firm or something after being in all the Ghostbusters cartoons. But I dont think she was in the Extreme Ghostbusters?
Well thats just what we would be putting out minds together.
In Wikipedia it stated that Dan did ask Rick to come on board for the 3rd film. and Rick as the Louis Tully guy stated that he was disapointed with the second movie. and then said he has long retired from acting. He may be picky. just like Jim Currey who refused to star on sequals except one for Ace Ventura Pet Detective. Bill Murray was said to dislike sequals. But he has shown in a few if you looked them up.
I really wished I seen the GB 2016 film. but I will wait for it on DVD. Dont know how long it will take.
John Candy has been gone for over 20 years, but many of the rumors about a second Spaceballs movie didn’t start until much more recently!
I heard the rumor about them making “Spaceballs 3 The Search For 2” from a friend in the early 90s, when John Candy was still alive.
Rick Moranis is a great actor, but if he wants to retire then let it be. Frankly, I missed him in the reboot, and it’s sad knowing that he doesn’t want to act anymore, but I can respect his choices. Life can be tough, so let it be.
I’ll admit that it is sad to know that he’s done, but we’ll always know him as Louis, and and as Seymour in Little Shop.
I’ll add Wayne Szalinski from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids!
I like him in GB and love him in Spaceballs, but this is his best performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ea5jKFGgUw
very closely followed by this gem of a scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0
Do we have a Ramis appreciation thread around here somewhere?
I know every song in this movie by heart.
And as Dark Helmet.
I do wish they at least maybe made a reference to Louis Tully somewhere in the movie, maybe just mention the name Louis Tully as a tribute to his character. If Rick Moranis didn’t want to be in the movie that’s his choice but I think they should’ve at least mentioned his character somewhere.