Dan Aykroyd is crossing streams with Paul Feig's rebooted Ghostbusters.
The veteran actor and comedian tweeted on Tuesday night that he was on the set of the new Ghostbusters movie, filming a scene with "funny beautiful Kristen Wiig."
Though he later deleted the tweet, Aykroyd's reps confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that he will, in fact, appear in the film.
So should we expect to see Aykroyd appear once more as Dr. Raymond Stantz -- the heart of the original Ghostbusters, whom he played in the franchise's first two films (which he also co-wrote)? It doesn't seem likely. The upcoming film appears to be a true reboot, one that forms a new Ghostbusters continuity; Aykroyd's tweet also implied that he only has one scene in the film, meaning he probably isn't showing Feig's new 'Busters -- Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones -- the ropes of parapsychology.
There's also this report from Indie Revolver, which describes Aykroyd's scene as viewed by someone who was supposedly on set during filming:
Aykroyd is cameoing as a Cabbie in the new film and that he was on set filming his scene last night. The scene featured Kristen Wiig attempting to gain access to Aykroyd’s cab in vein. At some point Aykroyd throws out the iconic line, “I ain’t afraid of no ghosts!” and drives off with Wiig yelling something along the lines of “That’s a double negative! That means you ARE afraid of ghosts!”
It's unclear whether Aykroyd will be the only original Ghostbuster in the new movie. Harold Ramis died in 2014; Bill Murray was so famously resistant to starring in another Ghostbusters film that the franchise's long-awaited third installment was stuck in development hell for decades.
Their costar Ernie Hudson, however, has expressed an interest in appearing in Feig's movie: "I'd love to be a part of it," he told EW in April, months after blasting the movie for casting a team of female Ghostbusters. ("All-female I think would be a bad idea," he told The Telegraph. "I don't think the fans want to see that.")
Feig's Ghostbusters hits theaters July 22.