Then Belushi passed away and the script sort of sat dormant for a couple of years. Dan had written a treatment for something called Ghostbusters for himself and John Belushi. Ivan Reitman director/producer: I was always a big horror and science fiction fan-as much as a comedy fan-and I had always had this dream of doing a movie that successfully combined both, comedy and scary stuff. All four of the core creatives-Aykroyd, Reitman, Murray, and Ramis-would go on to better, if not bigger, things, but Ghostbusters remains the moment when their brand of humor and our culture crossed streams, and invited all of Hollywood to the other side. Ghostbusters wasn't as massive as Star Wars at the box office, perhaps, but it represented something just as seismic by validating the new craft of comedy that had been knocking for nearly a decade. "Rarely has a movie this expensive provided so many quotable lines." "This movie is an exception to the general rule that big special effects can wreck a comedy," wrote Roger Ebert. But whereas Stripes and the Harold Ramis-directed Vacation appealed to the red-eyed college-kid demographic, Ghostbusters surprised everyone, including its creators, when virtually everyone, kids and grandmoms, began singing its theme song. Stay Puft? Terror dogs?-that seemed like the inhabitants of an epic ’shroom trip. In fact, they went even further, with a B-movie plot that was both ludicrous and stuffed with images-Mr. When Columbia gave Ghostbusters a green light, though, they handed the keys to the kingdom to an irreverent creative dream team that refused to flinch or be reined in by a bigger budget. Still, those hits were safe bets: raucous thumb-nosing comedies that mostly consisted of slobs outrunning or outsmarting Nixonian snobs. Saturday Night Live had yet to celebrate its 10th anniversary, but the seeds of SNL and Second City sketch comedy had already begun to bear fruit in Hollywood, with movies like Animal House, Caddyshack, and The Blues Brothers scoring at the box office. Dan Aykroyd was just 31 and director Ivan Reitman was 37. In June 1984, when the film opened in theaters, Bill Murray was only 33 years old. As exciting as any of this may seem, we'll simply have to wait until anything further is released or until the next outing premieres on its tentative release date of December 20 of this year.Ghostbusters has been such a huge part of our popular-culture for the last 30 years that it's easy to overlook what it represented at the time. Putting these points together alongside Vigo's penchant for Demonic Magic, and the properties of the psycho-reactive slime from the same movie creates a great dramatic base to not only bring back the evil magician, but also potentially create a plot similar to what was originally intended for the third movie. This would be a perfect point for them to use the videogame as an influence since Vigo reappeared as an Easter egg in the 2009 game. There isn't much information on the plot of Afterlife's sequel, however, Reitman did tease the possible return of Vigo the Carpathian from Ghostbusters II. While this potentially removes Ghostbusters: The Video Game from the primary canon, it isn't unreasonable to think that it or any of the ideas for Hellbent could have an influence on Afterlife's upcoming sequel or any subsequent films. In an interview with Uproxx, Jason Reitman made it clear that Ghostbusters II is canon to Afterlife, which made no reference to the events from the 2009 game. Following the premiere and success of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, however, that could be different. This is reflected mainly during the latter portion of the game in which the dead reanimate, causing the Ghostbusters to travel to "Ghost World," assumedly its version of the hereafter, via dimensional portals.Īfter its release, Ghostbusters: The Video Game was essentially considered the third canon movie, which is reasonable considering it involved the original talent in their famous roles and how much Hellbent influenced the game's storyline. Fortunately, Aykroyd and Ramis were asked to collaborate on the video game's script, providing an opportune way to create something different that would still honor the intended third movie. Unfortunately, that movie in any of its conceptions never made it to theaters, making it a damn shame we'll never see Chris Farley as a Ghostbuster at the very least. I couldn’t get his attention, and in the midst of that, Harold got really sick. Bill Murray dies in the first scene, because he always said, “I won’t do it unless I die.” And I said, “Okay, you got it.” It was a father-son story, with him as a ghost. "Bill and Sigourney’s kid, Oscar, is a postgrad student, and weird things start to happen.
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