A couple of months back, Sigourney Weaver let slip that Bill Murray’s Peter Venkman will be a ‘Ghost’ in the upcoming GHOSTBUSTERS 3. The actress, who’ll be reprising her role as Dana Barron – Venkman’s on-again off-again squeeze - in the flick, later back-peddled, suggesting she hadn’t even read the script, let alone knew what the boys in grey would be up to in sequel number two. It was pretty obvious she had a gun to her head during that interview...

Follow up:

Now that Murray’s come out and confirmed that he’ll indeed be playing a spirit-to-bust in the upcoming sequel, one’s got to assume Sony emailed Weaver over a cease-and-desist pretty quick smart when she blurted that biggish spoiler.

In an interview with The Daily Mail, Murray - who has long resisted doing another "Ghostbusters" - said, “I’ll come back in Ghostbusters III only if I get to be a ghost. I said to them, ‘I’ll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.’ So now they are going to have me as a ghost in the film.”