--- description: Ramis had been expected to cameo as Egon Spengler title: 'Ghostbusters III' On Track Despite Harold Ramis's Death image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2eed468d5d988bad/6986830c13c79f18e6190c4b/184143109.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Ghostbusters III_ Going Ahead Despite Harold Ramis's Death by [Megan Gibson / London](/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson / London Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 26, 2014 1:12 PM CUT  Director Harold Ramis at the "Year One" press conference at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on June 13, 2009 in New York City. Director Harold Ramis at the "Year One" press conference at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on June 13, 2009 in New York City.Vera Anderson—WireImage by [Megan Gibson / London](/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson / London Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 26, 2014 1:12 PM CUT Following Harold Ramis’s death on Feb. 24, Sony execs will be reworking the script for the upcoming _Ghostbusters III,_ reports[ _The Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ghostbusters-iii-script-be-reworked-683518 "undefined")_._ Ramis not only co-wrote the original _Ghostbusters_, he also starred in the 1984 film and its 1989 sequel, along with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson. The four played a team of parapsychologists in New York. The third installment,which was written by _The Office_ writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, had small parts for the original squad of ghostbusters where they pass the torch on to a new generation. In the wake of Ramis’ death, however, Ivan Reitman, the film’s director, will be meeting with the Sony team to discuss how they’ll move the project forward. Sadly, the discussions are likely to be something of an echo of meetings for the first _Ghostbusters_, which originally included a part written for John Belushi. That script also needed to be reworked after Belushi’s death in 1982. \[[_The Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ghostbusters-iii-script-be-reworked-683518 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/9844/ghostbusters-3-harold-ramis/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/9844/ghostbusters-3-harold-ramis/"},"headline":"Ghostbusters III Going Ahead Despite Harold Ramis's Death","datePublished":"2014-02-26T13:12:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:29:27.283Z","description":"Ramis had been expected to cameo as Egon Spengler","url":"https://time.com/9844/ghostbusters-3-harold-ramis/","keywords":["movies","Bill Murray"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2eed468d5d988bad/6986830c13c79f18e6190c4b/184143109.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Gibson / London"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2eed468d5d988bad/6986830c13c79f18e6190c4b/184143109.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Year One Press Conference","caption":"Year One Press Conference","creditText":"Vera Anderson—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/9844/ghostbusters-3-harold-ramis/","name":"Ghostbusters III Going Ahead Despite Harold Ramis's Death"}}]}] ```