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Ghostbusters got all the glory, but Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd starred in another 1984 sci-fi film that’s largely been forgotten — until now.
The pair appear briefly in Nothing Lasts Forever, which was written and directed by Saturday Night Live veteran Tom Schiller, starring Gremlins’ Zach Galligan as a man caught between two worlds.
A copy of Nothing Lasts Forever was leaked online in 2011, but it went largely unnoticed until this week.
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MGM reportedly declined to release the film because it did not test well with audiences. It has been screened over the years, gaining something of a resurgence in 2004 when Murray had it included in a retrospective of his work at the BAMcinematek in New York.
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“I think they thought it was low-budget or something to get off the hook of their contract, but I had total freedom,” Schilling said at a 2010 screening. “No one was watching hardly, and I got to make a personal film with a studio crew.”
He also said the film was accepted to Cannes twice, but MGM did not allow it to screen there.
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