My ideal ghostbusters 3 actors?
Paul Rudd
Dave Chapelle
Jack Black
David Hyde Pierce(Niles from Frasier) OR Stephen Merchant
The idea I’ve always had is that if it had to be a passing of the torch movie then like the original it should be a going into business movie. The basic premise is that 3 of those guys are old friends who have just had to close a business they co-owned due to the big corporate big box store pricing them out of the market. So they visit a franchise expo where companies like McDonald’s, Burger King, Taco Bell, Car Dealerships etc get you to invest in a franchise and open up a new location. All these franchises are waaaay out of our down on their luck guys’ budget. Finally, tucked away in a small pathetic corner is the “Ghostbusters” table. It’s a sad sight. It’s the cheapest franchise option available. They meet the Ghostbusters representative but don’t buy in. It’s not until one of them has a paranormal encounter that they decide “ok screw it”. They buy in but there are stipulations. They have to work out of the old fire house, they have to sign waivers saying GB inc can’t be held responsible for any accidents or cancer or diseases brought about by the equipment. The OGB’s have all become sterile from proton pack usage. It’s basically Ray and an assistant(the David Hyde Pierce/Stephen Merchant) who live in the fire house. Winston is a security guard for a bank, and Peter had just recently ran & lost an election for Mayor. He placed 4th.
So what’s the big bad? Something lovecraftian. I’d love to take some of the premise from the RGB episode “Collect Call of Cthulhu” where we can dig deep into mythology. But Why is New York such an epicentre for paranormal activity?
Basically it’s a curse the Native Americans put on the land after the Europeans came & pushed them out. They sold their land for really cheap and erected an enchanted/cursed stone structure which happens to intersect with ley lines. This opened New York up to a dangerous Native American “spirit” which is actually Cthulhu. He’s gone by many names over the eons. So we get a mix of mythologies, Native American & European which we eventually find out is all taken from the same source. The metaphor being while we have different cultures and differences, humans all come from the same place. Our stories are a shared one.
One of the bust scenes involved our new GB’s facing off against a ghost that has a powerful scream that can blow and rip the clothes right off a person. So the GB’s bust their first ghost almost completely ■■■■. Another has them completely destroying a customers house catching a ghost where just as the GB’s are leaving and give the customers the bill, the entire house collapses with the family witnessing it on the front lawn.
Another is a scene that takes place at a restaurant, maybe during a montage, where at this fancy steak house, this well-to-do patron goes to cut into his ribeye. But it dodges his knife and fork. Suddenly this starts happening all over the restaurant and the pieces of meat leave all the tables & start collecting to reform the cow it was butchered from. So there’s this meat ghost.
Another scene, maybe part of a montage, has a morgue attendant listening to music on headphones when behind him all the doors to the chill box opens and all these dead bodies get up and walk out the door. The morgue attendant is really into the music& is facing us into the camera and does not see any of it. On the way out one of the ghosts sees a hat/coat stand & takes a hanging fedora & puts it on his head. He adjusts it just so & leaves.
There’s also a ghost whose comically burnt to a crisp and he buys a pack of cigarettes @ a bodega and lights up. He exhales and smiles.
I have a lot more but that’s some it.