Comedian Dan Aykroyd found himself in the middle of a homicide investigation briefly because of a scene in one of his really bad movies.
According to TMZ, a landfill worker in Canada found a strip of film that showed Aykroyd standing over a corpse with blood on his hands. Calgary police told the site that the worker turned into the film on Wednesday, under the assumption that it could be evidence for a murder case.
Police cleaned the negative and eventually recognized the Ghostbuster star, but they knew it wasn’t a scene from Ghostbusters and it certainly couldn’t be from Driving Miss Daisy. They eventually got a hold of Aykroyd’s reps, who told them that it was a shot from Loose Cannons a 1990 movie that he made with Gene Hackman.
You can’t blame the cops for not recognizing it. The movie only made $5 million.
“The movie should have been left in the landfill where it belongs,” Aykroyd told TMZ.
The cops quickly closed the case.
However, the case is still open on Ghostbusters 3. Earlier this month, ComingSoon.net reported that Aykroyd talked to Larry King about the long-gestating project. He revealed the plot and said that bill Murray is still not interested in doing it.
“It's based on new research that's being done in particle physics by the young men and women at Columbia University," Aykroyd told King on Larry King Now. "Basically, there's research being done that I can say that the world or the dimension that we live in, our four planes of existence, length, height, width and time, become threatened by some of the research that's being done. Ghostbusters -- new Ghostbusters -- have to come and solve the problem."
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