Coover5 wrote: ↑September 17th, 2019, 2:58 pm Also let's not forget the '94 Fantastic Four film that cost 1 million (add 700k for inflation to update it) just to keep rights. And that's one example of many where studios sacrificed big money.
And yes many Hollywood movies do have scripts with alternate scenes. Some major movies will film large sections of fake movie just to hide the film they are making. This movie doesn't have a tight budget. It has a tight budget for the kind of film it is. We aren't talking about them trying to make this movie on 15 million. We're talking making it on 70-85 million.
Bill Murray is such a power house American Zoetrope started production on a 4 million dollar movie (Lost in Translation) with no idea if they even had a leading man. But it was worth the risk if they could get Murray. That's what he's worth to Hollywood.
Christ, on the *original* Ghostbusters films they weren't sure if he was going to show up...until he did.
Also, consider this. And it may mean something and it may not. Dan & Bill were in Ontario Canada quite a few times in 2017. They were in photographed at a pizzeria together. So it's not like they don't see each other or talk.
Then again, and this may mean something and it may not. I had heard everything was a go and fine and the cast was back in Febuary I think it was. Then something changed around late May early June. All of a sudden a comic con panel I was told might be happening was NOT and that everything was getting pushed back. Now it's not uncommon for productions dates to get pushed back(rewrites and whatnot). But here's how we will know if he's back.
We will be getting a trailer between now and Christmas. If they don't do what Star Wars did, with a "Chewie, We're Home" moment. Then I wouldn't get my hopes up. Sony and everyone wants this movie to be a hit. Advertising Bill Murray, even a small 1 second glimpse, will light up the Internet. Then again...this is Sony. I have zero faith in their marketing.