Actress Sigourney Weaver first spilled the beans on Ivan Reitman’s plans to shoot Ghostbusters 3 back in December (read here). Among the details the actress told the UK’s Channel 4 News was that Bill Murray would return to the franchise as a ghost.

Murray recently confirmed Weaver’s announcement during an interview with MailOnSunday.

The actor says:

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.

I’m not a 45-year-old pot-smoking hippie so I’ve never really found Murray to be funny. I think Stripes, Groundhog Day, and Lost in the Translation all sucked donkey balls. I will admit, however, that Murray’s performance in the Farrelly Bros. Kingpin comedy was sheer genius.