Hey, leave it to video games to get things going in another medium. Sure, we’ve seen plenty of recent movie adaptations of popular video games, but it looks like this time a video game may be helping to reinvigorate a preexisting movie franchise - and one that’s been in limbo for some time, apparently without much hope of being revitalized.

Ghostbusters III rumors have abounded for some time, but ultimately nothing ever came of them and Bill Murray was long a road block to the film being realized, being unwilling to participate in another sequel. However, alongside recent news of writers from The Office working on a GBIII script, Ain’t It Cool News reports Murray seems to be coming around…. because of the Ghostbusters video game.

[Murray] also went on to say that his enthusiasm for Ghostbusters was heightened after recording the voice of Peter Venkman for the video game over the summer. In fact, he said he found himself walking down the street singing the Ghostbusters theme song and then thought people walking around him were going to start yelling at him to “get over yourself, Bill,” so he stopped… But the enthusiasm was there.

Murray also commented that “the wounds from Ghostbusters 2 were healed”. Whatever the reason, we’ll take it. It’s great to hear that games are a partial force behind possibly bringing back a classic movie franchise, and it speaks to their modern cultural impact, even if that impact is at times unintended.

Source: Ain’t It Cool News, MTV Multiplayer