Bill Murray Is Back as Venkman, Busting Slimer in a ‘Ghostbusters’ Commercial You’ve Got to See

Remember when getting Bill Murray back as Peter Venkman seemed almost impossible? Well, now he’s catching Slimer in a car commercial, and it’s pretty fucking cool.

Electric vehicle maker Rivian has brought Murray back for a new Ghostbusters spot promoting its Halloween collaboration with Sony Pictures. Venkman gets behind the wheel of the Ecto-R1, a custom Rivian R1S SUV outfitted like a modern Ectomobile, for another encounter with everybody’s favorite green menace.

And this thing looks straight out of a movie. Set on Halloween eve, the spot opens inside a suburban house with flickering lights and Slimer tearing through whatever’s left in the refrigerator. Then a familiar siren announces Venkman’s arrival. He pulls up in the Ecto-R1 and puts his new ride’s ghostbusting equipment to work. It’s incredibly well-shot and a whole lot of fun.

There’s a reason it feels like an actual Ghostbusters production: Gil Kenan, who co-wrote Ghostbusters: Afterlife and directed and co-wrote Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, directed the commercial, titled “Answering the Call.”

For anyone who spent years following the attempts to get Ghostbusters III made, seeing Murray casually slip back into the jumpsuit for an advertisement is pretty funny. Dan Aykroyd and the original team spent years trying to get another movie going, with Murray famously resistant to returning.

At one point, Murray even floated coming back on the condition that Venkman die early and return as a ghost. He later described that suggestion as “a half-true, half-joke thing,” but the filmmakers actually worked it into a proposed sequel.

Murray eventually appeared in 2016 as a different character before finally reprising Venkman in and . In a bittersweet turn, was the movie that brought back a Ghostbuster as a spirit: Egon Spengler, recreated through visual effects following death.