Gestures towards Gozer
Has anyone heard any details of the Ghostbusters 2 preview cut and what deleted scenes extended scenes are included in it
I was talking about the stand-alone deleted scenes, not the assembly cut. Ghostbusters II, the deleted scenes all basically look the same as they were all unearthed during the 21st century. Ghostbusters, on the other hand, has some deleted scenes that were on disc in the DVD era, and some from the 21st century, and the bonus disc here just compiles the exact copies of material from those respective discs and puts them on this new disc.
[quote=RichardLess post_id=4966622 time=1643810140 user_id=47215]I say for the next movie Sony goes all out and spends like 300 million to de age and deepfake the OGB’s and do some sort of time travel thing. The latest episode of “The Book of Boba Fett” features bar none the best de ageing/deepfake I’ve ever seen. I won’t spoil it but..it’s flawless. We are living in a strange new world with that technology.
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Even though you can hang a “pandemic box office” asterisk on it, given Ghostbusters: Afterlife is only going to squeak into the black at the box office assuming Japan is good, there’s no way they raise the budget for the sequel to more than $100m.
There is no Ghostbusters II preview cut. There is only a preview cut for Ghostbusters. You do get television edits of both.
Yeah i know that as i have the boxset.
I’m asking generally about the GB2 preview cut which must be out there in the vaults
I wasn’t going to re-buy a bunch of movies I already own. I’m waiting to see the “new” stuff released online. It will show up eventually…
I’m patient and can wait. :mrgreen:
I’ve been slowly delving into the special features disks over the last couple of days.
the Dailies and preview cut especially have been an amazing surprise and a real treat to watch and analyse.
It’s an expensive set for sure but for my obsessive ass, it was worth it to own all of that content plus the infamous making of book.
I’d liked to have seen the possessed Ray driving Ecto 1A scene included and a directors commentary for Afterlife, which I found to be odd that they’d forgo but overall its thoroughly impressive.
I’m watching the edited-for-TV version of the first movie on the special feature discs right now, and am I awful for wishing Sony had edited some old commercials into it? 
[quote=RedSpecial post_id=4966636 time=1643824549 user_id=21507]I’d liked to have seen…a directors commentary for Afterlife.
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It’s too bad, he’s been pretty good at recording them, too.
- Thank You For Smoking (2005)
- Juno (2007)
- Up in the Air (2009)
- Young Adult (2011)
- Labor Day (2013)
- Men, Women, & Children (2014) ✘
- Tully (2018) ✘
- The Front Runner (2019)
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) ✘
There isn’t necessarily a preview cut of Ghostbusters II.
Low key best thing about this set?
Janine using the pole
That sounds like it.
It’s too bad, he’s been pretty good at recording them, too.
- Thank You For Smoking (2005)
- Juno (2007)
- Up in the Air (2009)
- Young Adult (2011)
- Labor Day (2013)
- Men, Women, & Children (2014) ✘
- Tully (2018) ✘
- The Front Runner (2019)
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) ✘
There isn’t necessarily a preview cut of Ghostbusters II.
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There is, or was, a preview cut of GB2. Whether or not it still exists I’m not sure. But they tested the movie. This is why Slimer’s role was reduced to a short cameo. The audience tapped out whenever he appeared, according to Michael Gross. If you’ve ever read the Cinefex article on GB2 they discuss it I think.
Even though you can hang a “pandemic box office” asterisk on it, given Ghostbusters: Afterlife is only going to squeak into the black at the box office assuming Japan is good, there’s no way they raise the budget for the sequel to more than $100m.
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It’s funny. When I wrote “300 million” I thought to myself “make it a higher number. Someone is going to think you really are suggesting Sony spend 300 million dollars”. But I didn’t. I thought no way will someone “Well actually..” me on this. 300 million is high enough that the facetiousness will be obvious.
Well it was only a matter of time before tylergfoster proved me wrong on something lol.
I do agree tho that they’ll keep the budget relatively low. It’s actually pretty shocking GBA cost 75 million. It seems like a lot for what’s on screen. Thinking of movies with a comparative amounts of location work & FX. Super 8 & It Part 1 come to mind. It Part 1 cost 35 million. Super 8 40 million. The OGB’s didn’t have main roles so their payday probably wasn’t much. Paul Rudd is a supporting role. They only shot for 60ish days.
I have waited a long time to hear Gozer’s real voice. When Venkman replies “Jews and Berries?”, I laughed. Murray actually worked that one in there. I always thought that was just him ribbing for interviews.
No that’s how I remember it myself. And then see it on VHS that I recorded onto and the end of the movie leading into a movie called Murphy’s Law
Halfway through Making Ghostbusters. Thrilled to have it, and this is a minor complaint at best, but it is kind of wild to me that they clearly just scanned a copy of the existing book in order to reprint it. Obviously, it would take a long time to have the book retyped, but it is a little weird seeing photocopied hairs, dirt, and patches that didn’t properly scan on some of the pages.
They are my scans of my first copy of the book that I gave to Paul Rudoff for his free PDF of the book on Spook Central. For whatever reason, Sony wanted my raw scans, not the final cleaned up version that Devilmanozzy painstakingly did for Paul’s PDF. Shrug.
EDIT: I was wrong, Paul gave them both versions.
WHY DO THEY MAKE SO MANY WEIRD DECISIONS? I DON’T GET IT
At the time, we speculated they wanted to do cleaning and cropping themselves but uh… guess we were wrong. I don’t know what version they used or why. I’ll know for sure what version they used when my copy comes.
EDIT: To reiterate, Paul gave them both the raw scans and the final version.
TBF, if Sony execs were to incur some kind of collective head trauma and budget $300million on the next Ghostbusters movie, the last thing I’d want them to spend it on is de-aging the older Ghostbusters. But, I get your point with the tech.
The logical explanation is that Afterlife had the budget to get the World’s Fair coin scene and the dailies restored to cinematic quality compared to the Blu-Ray set’s likely budget - if they were restored, rather than transferred from a better, previously-unseen copy/work print of the film.
I doubt a return of Vigo would serve as some barrier to including the deleted scenes in full.
And with that said, I think bringing Vigo back would be a waste of an opportunity to create a new antagonist for the Ghostbusters to face, especially as it’s largely implied that Vigo’s presence was destroyed at the end of the second film.
Gozer was easy to bring back as the door was sort of left open at the end of the first film (not that we knew it at the time), and any changes in voice or appearance can be attributed to Gozer’s ability to choose it’s appearance, and resurrecting Harold/Egon digitally worked for the film - helped by the fact it was in night-time shots, he was ghostly-transparent, and appeared on-screen for a short period of the film… I think resurrecting Vigo digitally following Wilhelm von Homburg and Max von Sydow having passed away isn’t as necessary a plot point or an expense.