The massive success of Murder 2 has given the Bhatt’s and Emraan an urge to start working on Murder 3 as soon as possible.

Raaz 3 was supposed to go on floors before Murder 3 but now the plans have changed and the Bhatt camp is eyeing the summer of next year for releasing Murder 3.

Mukesh Bhatt confirmed the reports stating, “Yes we're already looking at Murder 3. We hope to release it by summer 2012."

Emraan Hashmi is elated with the news and said, “Murder 3 is definitely on the cards. We haven’t started work on a script yet, but it should flag off by mid-2012. We have no choice. After the super success of Murder (2004) and Murder 2, we have to take the franchise forward”.

The pre production of movie has already started.