GB3: The Comic Con Concept

Ghostbusters Discussion Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016)
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Hey GBfans! :cool:

I’ve edited a video describing what I’d love to see in Ghostbusters 3. I used all my old Real Ghostbusters action figures and a green screen program to visualize some of the scenes I have in mind.

To me, Ghostbusters 3 should feel like a Christopher Guest film. Some parts could even have a found footage or documentary feel to it. It could also have an improv element, sort of like “Curb Your Enthusiasm”.

Basically, the Ghostbusters reunite at a comic con and ghosts are unleashed. It’s up to the GB’s and their fans to stop the class 5 full roaming vapors. By the end of the film, a new Ghostbuster team is formed, thus making it possible for more sequels (with potential cameos from the original GB’s, sort of like how Leonard Nimoy pops up in the new Star Trek movies.)

I know this is sort of a different direction to take the franchise in, but to me, it celebrates the fans, allows for countless celebrity cameos and could explore how the culture has changed since the original films.

Here’s the video: (I don’t know how to embed videos on this board. Please let me know if there is a way. Thanks!)

For the last 2 months, I’ve been trying to send this to Dan Aykroyd. I just contacted him on Twitter (I joined yesterday and have no idea how to use it!). I don’t have an agent, but I’m looking into how to get one. I questioned whether or not to make my video public but after seeing the news about Ruben Fleischer in talks to direct GB3, I figure it’s now or never.

I hope you enjoy my GB3 pitch! Any feedback would be great! Also, I’m interested in hearing your GB3 concepts, so please post! I’m pretty obsessed with imagining all the different ways GB3 could turn out. :walterpeck:

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Not to burst your bubble, but isn’t there already a script written for GB3? Just saying…

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This is pretty close to what IDW did in the Ghostbusters: Convolution one shot comic.

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I will admit, it would be super cool if they called upon all the GB franchises worldwide to take part in the movie…

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Thanks, pyhasanon… Yeah, I never really took into consideration the screenwriters already attached. Also, I don’t read the IDW stuff so I wasn’t aware the concept had already been claimed… Danggit!

Oh well. Just an idea. :whatever:

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Nothing wrong with sharing, though… Again, I like the idea of utilizing existing GB fans as part of the storyline… Wouldn’t really cost the studio much either, because all the uniforms and props are already made! Imagine if you can say that your handmade prop was “screen used?”

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One thing anyone who actually works in a creative field will tell you is “DON’T SEND ME CREATIVE IDEAS.” Ownership of their IPs is how these people get paid. Even if he wanted to, Mr. Akyroyd can’t legally look at your script without risking you suing him for “stealing” your work. This is every screenwriter’s worst nightmare.

Your idea may be good. It may be bad. I don’t think there’s anyone on this board who doesn’t have thier own ideas for the perfect GBIII kicking around in their head…mine own involves Oscar growing up to be a powerful psychic/ telekinetic who keeps having conversations with a red-eyed demonic version of himself that only he can see, corpses found at the scenes of no-longer-haunted buildings with curious wing-shaped burns on their backs, an archdemon who is quietly building an army of spirits by wiping out smaller GB franchises (no survivors means word of the attacks is slow to spread) and raiding their ECUs, a “damsel in distress” who turns out to actually be a professional thief who absconds with the Heroes gear at the worst possible time, and a climax where a cosmic world-eating Azathoth-style entity is destroyed by every franchise in the world firing full stream into the sky at the same time…

I don’t bear any illusions about this idea. Dan Akyroyd’s never going to see it. I made it up just because I couldn’t really stop myself from making it up. I may even use parts of it (I really do like my archdemon villain) in my totally original stuff, if I come up with the proper replacement story.

The point is, have your idea. Enjoy it. Sure it will never make it to the big screen, but at the same time, it exists in YOUR head, and you can sit down in your little mental movie theater and watch it as many times as you feel like. Nobody can take that from you.

Also, fanfiction is a thing, everybody’s phone has a video camera these days, and the internet exists. Nobody can keep you from making anything you want to make, if you can figure out how to do it.

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Cool, M. Thunder. Your idea about a psychic Oscar is really intriguing. The video is really just to visualize my concept. If Mr. Aykroyd sees it, great! If not, I still think it’s a pretty cool video. Hope people enjoy it. :vinzclortho:

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This one is WAY better. (Credit to Pat Lochelt and of course, poewriter)

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SCENE 1: Ghosbusterrs Firehouse new York Cite

Egin: Guys we almost got kill in that last job. I thnk its time to retired

Peeter: Ok

Ray: Sure ok but we better trian the new recroots

Egun: Ok

SCENE 2: Ghostbussters trian the new members

Noob 1: Im getting good at this

Noob 2: Me to, Im feeling cocky

Noob 3: Lets go out to stop the main ghost

Noob 1: Ok

SCENE 3: Noobs Go after the main ghost and get captured

Noob 1: we got captured

Noob 2: we shouldt have been so cocky

Noob 3: Ok

SCENE 4: Originel Ghostubtsre Suit Up again

Egyn: I guess wehave to suit up again

Peterr: Yes we have to save the noobs

Winstin: before its to late!

Ray: Ok

SCENE 5: Originol Ghostbusts save the Noobs

Winstun: I LOVE THIS TIWN

Ray: Hows that for a third?

Also as dumb as that script sounds…here’s what YOU are saying…“I have a Screenplay I’d like for you to see…well, it’s not a screenplay it’s an idea, but I sort of outlined it on youtube, and you should totally let me direct and cast it, because all screen writers also direct and cast while having NOTHING to do with production…so, major Hollywood studio, kindly hand me the keys to one of your largest intellectual properties…”

Ultimately its already been said, but they literally CAN NOT use your idea anyway, which frankly is bad and poorly demonstrated.

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Thanks for the feedback, Chace. May not be what I want to hear, but it sure is constructive! :angryvigo:

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Yeah, sorry man. If they didn’t take my script idea (and Poewriter’s), then there’s no hope for any of us.

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Good to hear you have a positive outlook despite some disappointment, more power to you… Besides, doesn’t make you any less of a fan! Keep busting! =D

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Thanks, guys. Y’all keep bustin’ too! :boogieman:

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There’s no harm in wring a spec script but unfortunately you’ll get nowhere without an agent. Even with an agent the chances of a studio even reading a spec script are slim to non. Having said that there have been some lucky writers who’ve managed to sell their spec scripts in the past.

Firstly I’d say learn the craft. Don’t just get good at it. Get great at it. Write a great script and get an agent. There’s always a chance.

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I appreciate the advice and the encouragement. Thanks ScriptWriter. For the last few days I’ve been reading up on agents and familiarizing myself on how the hollywood system works… It’s a difficult business, for sure.

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It’s also good to research your concept first, too. Just to make sure nobody’s already doing it.

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There’s some great books out there which I highly recommend getting hold of. First is The Hollywood Screenwriters Directory which comes out every year. As the name suggests it’s basically a directory which lists all the agents in Hollywood and has all their contact information listed. There are also some really useful books on the craft of screenwriting. I recommend 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters by Karl Iglesias, Story Maps by Daniel P Calvisi, Save the Cat by Blake Snyder and The Definitive Guide to Screenwriting by Syd Field. You’ll also need a good writing software. My personal Favourite is Movie Magic Screenwriter version 6.

Before you even think about looking for an agent or selling a script you must learn the craft of screenwriting. Read the books I’ve suggested, and read as many scripts as you can. This will teach you the essentials like how to format a screenplay, how to lay out a story and how to write interesting characters. Other than that it’s just a matter of writing every day. You’ve got to put the hours in to get good at it. It can’t be something that you just do from time to time if you want to succeed in the business. You must write every day.

I wrote a spec script for a third Ghostbusters a few years ago. I gave it to my agent who read it and thought it was good but told me I didn’t have a hope in hell because of the way Hollywood works. After a lot of insistence from me she agreed to try to set up a meeting with someone at Creative Artists Agency but unfortunately nobody seemed to want to know. I should have listened to her… If a studio wants a sequel they hire a writer. If they don’t like the script he’s written they go and hire another writer. That’s how it works. Disappointing because I think that script would have made a great movie.

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Sorry to hear your script wasn’t produced. Sounds like you made it pretty far though, in terms of getting it seen by people. That’s awesome.

I own a book by J. Michael Straczynski about screenwriting, though I’ve yet to read it all yet. I’ll definitely try to look up the books you mentioned next time I’m at a book store. Thanks for the advice, Scriptwriter and M. Thunder. :slight_smile:

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The Complete Book of Screenwriting by J. Michael Straczynski. I own it too! Like you, I’ve not read it yet.

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Ha! That’s funny. It looks like a good book, but I just never get around to reading it. Glad to know I’m not the only one! :roland: