How would YOU have made a Ghostbusters reboot?

[Skyknight]

@Ralf Castleknifer

However, if I was to make a new live action Ghostbusters movie, since the original actors are old and Harold Ramis is gone, I’d have new actors play the original characters and have it be just another adventure for the Ghostbusters. Just because it’s new actors doesn’t mean you have to go back to the beginning and start the story over.

Please not! No new actors could ever cover for the original ones. These guys are the Ghostbusters and shouldn’t be replaced. If you want something fresh let the remaining ones train a new team!

My new movie would not simply be called Ghostbusters, it would have a subtitle relevant to the story. Ghostbusters I & II and The Real Ghostbusters have the perfect balance of seriousness and light-heartedness, so I would maintain that, not make a full-on comedy nor a gritty Dark Kight (ugh) style. Old school effects all the way. I would also consider giving the Ghostbusters multicolour costumes like in the cartoon and action figures.

I like this one, but the colours should be looking more real. Like more of an olive drab for Winston instead of mint green and no pink collar on Egon’s grey one. Ray could simple use the regular tan and Peter cold have coyote brown. Those are all colours you can actually get in flight suits!

Make it animated if you want, but don’t replace the original actors as the first Ghostbusters!

[Slimered]

I would have made it more like Jurassic World. It would have been a sequel-reboot focusing on new characters rather than the original team, however instead of JW ignoring the likes of Alan Grant and Ian Malcolm I would have had the original Ghostbusters appear in cameos during the beginning of the movie (where they realise they are too old to bust ghosts during a hilarious ‘disadvantages of being old’ montage featuring a slowed down version of Ray Parker Jnr’s theme song) and elsewhere training up a new team to bust ghosts.

The new team would have consisted of Chris Pratt, David Tennant, Noel Clarke and Ben Stiller.

Harold Ramis would be represented via a ghost of Egon Spengler who assists the new team in catching ghosts and spouts lines from the videogame.

The big bad would be a human character (I agree with Paul Feig’s idea of a human antagonist) who bitches about the new Ghostbusters team not being as good as the originals on social media and sets out to prove they aren’t as good by manipulating them into releasing every ghost the original Ghostbusters have ever caught from the containment unit and filming them doing it on his phone to upload to YouTube.

The ‘Stay Puft’ style monster would be one of those emojis, only giant-sized to reflect popular culture. Times have changed since Stay Puft.

Slimer would be in it.

The original Ecto-1 would be in the beginning montage, only it would cough and splutter as it makes slow progress on the way to a Ghostbusting job. It would be replaced with an Ecto-1 that looks similar to the one in the reboot to show the business has little money to afford on cars.

The Proton Packs in the opening montage would take ages to warm up and the original Ghostbusters would have to blow into the neutron wand in order to get them to work. The new Proton Packs would look pretty much the same as the ones in the Reboot only without the heart sticker.

The PKE Meter would appear old and outdated. It would be replaced with a PKE Smart Watch.

[Ralf_Castleknifer]

I don’t like the ideas about Ghostbusters becoming a big corporate brand with franchises around the world and having the government involved. I prefer to think of the Ghostbusters as unique, independent adventurers. Maybe they can encounter other groups of paranormal investigators and eliminators around the world, but they don’t have to take on the Ghostbusters name and brand. Yes, Ghostbusters is a business, but I like to think they mainly do it for the love of the paranormal. After all, there’s been lots of times in the cartoon when they helped ghosts and other creatures rather than busted them. They just bust the trouble makers.

I want Egon, Ray, Winston, Peter, Janine, Louis and Slimer to be immortal characters like Batman, who has been played by many actors and re-imagined many times. Some versions are good, some not so good, depending on your tastes. Extreme Ghostbusters is OK, but to me it’s mostly a failed experiment. You can guess what I think of the concept of the new movie. I don’t want the characters replaced. That does not mean the first Ghostbusters movie has to be remade, that story has already been told wonderfully, but the original characters can still be re-imagined and have new adventures.

I agree that reboots these days tend to not be good and that’s why my knee-jerk reaction to the news that they were remaking Ghostbusters (even before I heard they were replacing the characters) was “No way! Sacrilege!”, but think about how many times reboots have been good. My favourite Batman movie is Batman (1966), but Batman (1989) is wonderful too, as well as several of the cartoon series. Batman (1989) is not really a remake because it does not tell the same story as Batman (1966), it re-imagines the characters (does not replace them) and tells a new story. More recently, there’s the wonderful Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated series.

Some of you here are good writers, but don’t you think it would be hard on Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson to play parts where they have to talk about Egon being dead?

Anyway, none of you have to worry about what I would do because it’s not up to me. These are just my thoughts right now and it’s possible that I might see things differently later.

[Skyknight]

@Ralf Castleknifer

I don’t like the ideas about Ghostbusters becoming a big corporate brand with franchises around the world and having the government involved. I prefer to think of the Ghostbusters as unique, independent heroes. Maybe they can encounter other groups of paranormal investigators and eliminators, but they don’t have to take on the Ghostbusters name and brand. Yes, Ghostbusters is a business, but I like to think they mainly do it for the love of the paranormal. After all, there’s been lots of times in the cartoon when they helped ghosts and other creatures rather than busted them. They just bust the trouble makers.

I want Egon, Ray, Winston, Peter, Janine, Louis and Slimer to be immortal characters like Batman, who has been played by many actors and re-imagined many times. Some versions are good, some not so good, depending on your tastes. Extreme Ghostbusters is OK, but to me it’s mostly a failed experiment. You can guess what I think of the concept of the new movie. I don’t want the characters replaced. That does not mean the first Ghostbusters movie has to be remade, that story has already been told wonderfully, but the original characters can still be re-imagined and have new adventures.

I agree that reboots these days tend to not be good and that’s why my knee-jerk reaction to the news that they were remaking Ghostbusters (even before I heard they were replacing the characters) was “No way! Sacrilege!”, but think about how many times reboots have been good. My favourite Batman movie is Batman (1966), but Batman (1989) is wonderful too, as well as several of the cartoon series. Batman (1989) is not really a remake because it does not tell the same story as Batman (1966), it re-imagines the characters (does not replace them) and tells a new story. More recently, there’s the wonderful Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated series.

Some of you here are good writers, but don’t you think it would be hard on Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson to play parts where they have to talk about Egon being dead?

Anyway, none of you have to worry about what I would do because it’s not up to me. These are just my thoughts right now and it’s possible that I might see things differently later.

The thing I don’t like about letting new actors take over the roles is it just feels wrong to me. Like with James Bond. My favorite Bond is still Sean Connery and he always will be! The other Bond movies just aren’t as good as the Connery ones. The 1966 Batman movie was intended as a pilot for the tv show with the same actors and costumes but got hold back for some time and the series started early. It was never meant to be a stand alone movie!

But if you want to make a two decades old tv show into a 2h Hollywood Blockbuster movie, you have to change a few things here and there and kind of reboot the story to show the beginnings. Now the 89 Batman movie did it right(for the protocol, I like it much more than the most recent reboot movies), but a lot of others didn’t. I also didn’t like that they replaced the actor and the costume a few times in the following movies. The last two of them even had the same Robin but different Batmans and neither of them was a good one. Clooney felt completely wrong as Batman and as much as I like Kilmer, he’s also not a good Batman!

Btw Batman is far from being immortal! He’s just a normal guy with fancy equipment just like the Ghostbusters. The writers could kill him any time they feel like it would be a good end! And he did age in the cartoons! In “Batman of the Future” old man Bruce Wayne realizes that he’s too old to be Batman and that he’ll get killed if he continues. So he starts to train a teenage boy to become the next Batman. Kind of a soft reboot with a new main character, but still set in the same universe! It was a bit like Extreme Ghostbusters, but very much like EGB it didn’t have many fans.

I wouldn’t mind if they make a new cartoon or a live action tv series with new actors(completely new faces that didn’t have any bigger roles yet), because it’s a different medium. But I don’t like to see the old Ghostbusters portrayed by new actors in a movie. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson will always be the only real “Movie Ghostbusters”!

Just imagine they would remake Beverly Hills Cop with Will Smith! Sounds wrong, doesn’t it?

[Ralf_Castleknifer]

Understandable points, Skyknight. It’s all in how you look at it, I guess.

When I say “immortal”, I don’t mean that they’re immortal in the their own reality, I just mean the fictional characters could be around in our world forever. They can age and die, but it doesn’t have to be written and I prefer not the see it.

[Scum]

With me as the star, collecting a big fat paycheck.

[GBfan77]

@gold333

Egon’s daughter and Oscar end up in the same Physics University both for different reasons (their history).

There’s no way Egon would’ve had a daughter. I always figured he was Asexual, his focus was always on science, not the ladies. A nephew or niece might work.

How would I do the remake? I’d make it it’s own story. Maybe some nods to the original here and there but It would be a completely different movie. I’d chose a mixed team that would work together as equals. I’d chose a 1975 hearse for Ecto.

[Scum]

@GBfan77

@gold333

Egon’s daughter and Oscar end up in the same Physics University both for different reasons (their history).

There’s no way Egon would’ve had a daughter. I always figured he was Asexual, his focus was always on science, not the ladies. A nephew or niece might work.

How would I do the remake? I’d make it it’s own story. Maybe some nods to the original here and there but It would be a completely different movie. I’d chose a mixed team that would work together as equals. I’d chose a 1975 hearse for Ecto.

I disagree, remember Egon’s reaction in GBII when Dana kisses him on the cheek? “Now let’s see what happens when we take the puppy away”

With such a brilliant scientific mind, I would think that Egon would engage in ■■■■■■■■■■■ specifically FOR sceience, the spread the Spengler seed. Not for pleasure, but for the betterment of man.

[HauntedWallflower]

I will read ANY idea you people make up, as long as Egon and Janine are happily married.

[Slimered]

@HauntedWallflower

I will read ANY idea you people make up, as long as Egon and Janine are happily married.

I’m sorry to inform you that Egon and Janine got married for a few months, then got divorced because Janine hated how he devoted more time to science than with her.

[HauntedWallflower]

@Slimered

I’m sorry to inform you that Egon and Janine got married for a few months, then got divorced because Janine hated how he devoted more time to science than with her.

Oh well, as long as it was an amicable divorce.

…NAH!

They’re SO happy and Janine is his widow now.

[HauntedWallflower]

@Zach Blanton

I’ve been thinking on this a lot lately!

BUT you know, I do like Erin Gilbert, Abby Yates, Jillian Holtzmann, Patty Tollins, & the whole premise of Rowan! I’ve had a plot rolling around in my head for awhile, so here goes …

Rowan was a 1920s/1930s mafia gangster in New York City, who also delved into the occult & ghost worlds, and wanted to connect with ghost spirits. Rowan is arrested and subsequently executed, but not before he says that he shall return one day in the future and terrorize New York from the spirit world.

We go to 2014, where we see the funeral of Egon Spengler and in attendance is Venkman, Stantz, Zeddemore, Janine Melnitz, Louis Tully, Walter Peck, Dana Barrett, Dana’s son Oscar Wallance, & Egon’s niece Jillian Holtzmann.

Jillian Holtzmann is Egon Spengler’s niece.

After the funeral, Ray, Peter, & Winston tell Jillian that they have something to show her that Egon had left for her. In essence, Egon had given the Ghostbusters headquarters firehouse to Jillian in his will. The original three would give Jillian a brief tower of the firehouse and they’d end up cranking up the old Ecto-1, which Egon had renamed back to from the Ecto-2. We’d get a cool scene of the original theme song playing as the siren blares and the original three attempt to drive the Ecto out of the firehouse into the street, only for it break down and start pouring out smoke from the hood.

Jillian says she would turn the firehouse into a paranormal investigative center, & Ray says that Egon would be proud of her.

Two years later …

We’re introduced to Erin Gilbert & Abby Yates, Gilbert attempting to get tenant at Columbia University, but her chances of that are ruined when Yates publishes a book that she & Gilbert had written years ago. Gilbert & Yates reunite when someone comes to Gilbert asking her for help on a paranormal issue at a local mansion.

Yates tells Gilbert that she knows someone that can aide them in their first paranormal investigation, Holtzmann. Yates, Gilbert, & Holtzmann goes to this mansion, where they see the ghost from the trailer, that ends up puking green slime onto Gilbert, with Yates filming the entire thing.

After the incident, Gilbert who had been a skeptic, admits on camera that ghosts are real while yelling hysterically. The video makes it back to her boss at Columbia University, which coupled with the fact that she basically co-authored a paranormal book with Yates, has no choice but to Gilbert go.

After this, Gilbert, Yates, & Holtzmannn decide to start taking calls about paranormal sightings in the city, and they eventually start calling themselves the Ghostbusters, and the Mayor’s spokeswoman says that the woman aren’t to be taken seriously, & even local news station ask whether the Ghostbusters should be taken seriously or not.

We then are introduced to Patty Tollins, a Metro worker in the NYC subway system. We see her at her ticket booth, doing her job, & smiling at people passing by. After this however, Tollins goes to investigate a strange noise coming from the subway tunnel and as she is walking down the line she shines her flashlight onto a faint blue haze, which turns out to be a group of ghosts, some that look like they are dressed in 1920s clothing.

After her sighting, Patty decides to go to to the Ghostbusters, who had set up temporary shop above a Chinese restaurant while the firehouse is renovated for them. Patty tells the three girls that she knows New York, that they need her because she knows all of the city’s history & the nooks & crannies that they wouldn’t be able to find otherwise.

After they hire Patty onto the team, she creates the team’s suits, as well as gets a Cadillac hearse that would become the team’s vehicle of transportation.

We are later introduced to Kevin, who comes to be the Ghostbusters’ receptionist, and Gilbert who has a huge crush on Kevin, instantly hires him, though he is an idiot.

To make a long story short, all of the sudden paranormal activity in New York is caused by Rowan, who has kidnapped & acquired enough spirits in the spirit realm to become a very powerful being. Rowan’s next step is to reenter the physical world again, almost as if he’s coming back to life.

Rowan however is strong enough to enter the physical world as a ghost, there in lies where he is able to possess Kevin and use him as his vehicle to start his evil plan, which is to inundate Earth with ghosts & spirits in order for him to come back to life and wreak havoc on New York & even the world.

We later learn that one of the spirits Rowan had managed to capture was the spirit of Egon Spengler, who was about to crossover to the afterlife, when Rowan nabbed his spirit and absorbed him, basically holding him hostage.

Rowan continually taunts Holtzmann with this, revealing to her that he is holding her uncle hostage from crossing over into peace, & even uses it against Holtzman, in order for her to help him with research about leaving the spirit realm essentially and return to a physical form.

Holtzmann’s reluctant research & Rowan’s growing power leads him to have the ability to take the form of anything and therefore he exits Kevin & asks the Ghostbusters what form would they like him to take, and Patty remembers seeing a Ghostbusters logo in the subway and that it ultimately what Rowan turns into, in the climax of the film.

Before the huge climax, the team feels defeated, they feel as if they can’t conquer Rowan and his gang of evil spirits by themselves, which leads them to reach out to Venkman, in attempt to get the original Ghostbusters to help them in their big battle. Venkman initially denies and says that Ray & Winston wouldn’t be interested either, as they are getting up in age. Venkman gives the girls an encouraging speech and tells that they have the capability to conquer the threat themselves.

Back to the climax of the film … As our four Ghostbusters gear up to battle Rowan in his final form as the logo, Venkman, Stantz, & Zeddemore appear willing to help. Venkman says that after things started to get really bad they couldn’t just sit back & let NYC go down to an old dead mobster.

The battle ensues, & at the end, as Holtzmann, Yates, Gilbert, Tollins, Venkman, Stantz, & Zeddemore are crossing the streams and zapping Rowan, spirits are seen leaving Rowan’s body signifying that they are free to cross over now into peace. We then hear the voice of Egon (voiced by the voice actor that voiced Egon in the Real Ghostbusters) urging Holtzmann on to defeat Rowan so that he may live eternity in peace.

In the end, Egon’s words of encouragement help both Ghostbuster teams defeat Rowan into a mess of white goo (sound familiar?).

In a post credits scene, we see Dana & her son Oscar standing over a storage shed full of Ghostbuster memorabilia, with Dana asking Oscar if he’s sure he wants to do this, & Oscar says he’s sure of it …

Sequel? Well, I’d like to see Kevin & Oscar form their own Ghostbusters team, but that’s another idea for another time!

This only a rough version of what I had in my head!

I love it!! Oh and it’s Patty Tolan.

I would add to this idea, by having Jillian be Egon and Janine’s daughter (she dyed her hair and used the name Holtzmann as a pseudonym to not be overshadowed by her famous dad). I mean, look at her, she’s got Egon’s quirkiness AND Janine’s sass! At the part where the originals come to help, I would include Janine along with Venkman, Stantz and Zeddemore, because over time she got sick of being stuck on the sidelines while the boys had all the fun. She’d have taught herself how to wield a Neutrona Wand on the sly, before and after Egon died.

[SpenglerTheWrangler]

Pretty much they made the movie somewhat similar to how I would have made it.

The only changes I really would make would be a mix gender team(both guys and girls, and probably more members with brand new names, no using the originals names), some of the unused ideas that were in early drafts of the original movies script(like the gas station containment unit, the main villian having an office decorated with human bones, several destructor forms, etc), and would have made it more of a darker action thriller, pretty much I want you to question if they will actually save the day or not, as well as possibly give a grown adult nightmares.

[Bangoose]

Extreme Ghostbusters would have been the basis of my reboot, only difference is that i would have both the original team and the extreme team in the movie. The originals would be training the EGB through most of the movie, even taking them on call assignments. All 8 of them would battle the main villian in the climax of the movie.

Cast :

Eduardo - Hal Sparks

Roland - John Boyega

Garrett - Emile Hirsch

Kylie - Audrey Peebles

Egon - CGI resurrected Harold Ramis with Maurice Lamarche providing the voice

Ray - Dan Ackroyd

Peter - Bill Murray

Winston - Ernie Hudson

Dana - Sigourney Weaver

Oscar - Drake Bell

Louis - Rick Moranis

[craigtheowl1]

I’m actually really surprised that Sony didn’t incorporate Extreme Ghostbusters into the reboot. It’s what the people want.

[Nassik]

If the new Ghostbusters movie gets a sequel, they could still tie in the original Ghostbusters. As was stated:

People forget. The cat gets put back in the bag

This allows for the possibility that the world moved past the events of the 1980s.

With that stated, ignore the cameos we’ve seen. In the new Ghostbusters 2 have Abby getting more into paranormal research. Her search for reference leads her to Ray’s Occult Books. In this movie, Egon’s deceased, Peter’s whereabouts are unknown. Winston’s around and has his own life (but pops up as needed) and Dana ( and Oscar) aren’t even mentioned.

Ray sold the firehouse years ago (the mortgage was in his name so he’d be the one to sell it) and returned to his shop. Abby has no idea about the original Ghostbusters and only has an acquaintance with Ray through his bookshop. In the course of her research she discovers the existence of the original Ghostbusters and Ray’s history with the paranormal. The existence of the original Ghostbusters (who are all but forgotten) explains how the modern Ghostbusters got their name… (the crowd calling out “Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters…” was sparked by by a faded memory of a team that once was).

Ray takes on a Yoda sort of role… there for advice and information but not an actual member of the team.

[Jetstange]

@Raystantz Italy

The funny thing is that even the feig script can be turned into a sequel.

You’re 100% correct! because while watching this movie I saw a lot of openings on how this could’ve been a pathway of part 3 instead of a Reboot.

[GB_Long]

I haven’t given much thought into a better plot. But they should of kept to original roots everything as original as possible. All reboots should be that way. Cause then it upsets true original fans like me. They can easily take original ideas and make it modern. I have not seen the movie so idk if some things were taken from the original.

[MagicPrime]

I would have loved to see Akroyd as Ray one last time. Supporting character. His role size would be akin to Obi-Wan in A New Hope.

I could see him still wearing an old blue GB2 flightsuit under a brown long coat.

[Kammerice]

I posted this on Reddit and got zero love for it. Maybe here’s a better, more receptive audience.

Copy/pasted.

Straight up - I have to admit that I haven’t seen the new film. I saw the trailers and didn’t find any spark or connection with the new characters. My primary issue is a simple one: in Ghostbusters, Venkman et al weren’t aware they were in a comedy. The characters could have been lifted from a contemporary horror. In the trailers for the new film, from what I could see, the characters knew they were in a comedy and act accordingly. They don’t seem to take anything seriously and so the film seems to lose a lot of the tension of the original.

Right, so that’s the disclaimer out the way. Which brings us to the point. I fancy myself as a bit of a writer, and an RPG-er and I write and game based on inspiration from the media around me. Based on that, I figured that I could write a different story than Sony produced. To make things a bit of a challenge, I intend on keeping Sony’s new characters and their characterisation.

Below is the synopsis of this story…my fan-fiction, how I would’ve done a 2016 Ghostbusters film/book. Oh, and one further challenge I like to set myself is to name chapters after songs - I’ve chosen REM for this experiment.

GHOSTBUSTERS: COLLAPSE INTO NOW

Chapter 1 - The Final Straw

Open with Pete, Winston and Ray sitting on ECTO-1. They’re covered in slime, smoking traps scattered around them. Through conversation, they reveal that Egon is missing (dimension-hopping, Sliders-style) and with his disappearance, Janine has quit. They realise they’re old, and that things haven’t turned out they way they thought. Pete sighs, stands up, and asks “Are we done?” Winston and Ray agree that, yeah, they’re done.

Credit to one of you for this scene - I can’t remember the username to attribute appropriate credit, though.

Chapter 2 - I Took Your Name

Stantz is the only one left in the HQ as the mortgage is in his name. He goes back to Columbia University to see if he can get back into academia. He stops into the Psychology Department, where the original three first met. There he meets Drs Abby Yates and Erin Gilbert who are parapsychologists. Part of their research is interviewing Dean Yager’s ghost about the start of the Ghostbusters. Stantz asks the women if they’d like to make things a little less theoretical…

The women talk to their friend, the experimental physicist Dr Jillian Holtzmann who is about to be kicked out for blowing up another lab. With smoking eyebrows, she agrees.

Chapter 3 - Welcome to the Occupation

The girls’ first mission, which will mirror the Sedgewick Hotel scene. Perhaps even have Slimer, but maybe not.

Chapter 4 - Imitation of Life

Kevin Beckman encounters animated mannequins in the clothing shop he works in. He is previously shown to have decent organisational and interpersonal skills. Calls the Ghostbusters, who turn up. Gilbert has the hots for him and offers him a job as their secretary, which he accepts.

Chapter 5 - Losing My Religion

Father Rowan North has lost his faith and is losing his mind. He talks to the spirits of his dead congregation. They didn’t want to leave, which makes him fear for the afterlife. Several apparitions are not of his flock. They taunt him until he finds a glowing mystical book in one of the crypts beneath his church. The book details how to get to a place called the Dreamlands.

Chapter 6 - All the Right Friends

The Ghostbusters hire Patty Tolan as their historical guide after a call into the catacombs beneath Grand Central Station. Gilbert is knocked out, and Tolan proves her worth with a proton pack, helping to bust the ghosts they’re hunting. The Ghostbusters offer her a job.

Chapter 7 - Carnival of Sorts

Montage of the Ghostbusters going on various jobs and getting experience.

Chapter 8 - Daysleeper

North wakes in the middle of his church facing a youthful man, Crane. He tells North that he will bring peace to the restless dead by helping them cross into the Dreamlands. North does so, sacrificing his dead congregation and thus empowering Crane. Parts of the church are replaced by weird dimensional structures (gothic architecture and weird glowing lights etc.)

Chapter 9 - I Wanted To Be Wrong

Martin Hiess, an old flame of Yates’, gets caught up in a bust at a gala dance. He works at City Hall and has only ever tolerated the Ghostbusters’ activity due to pressure from the public. But after the girls completely destroy the gala, he publicly decries the Ghostbusters, calling them frauds and/or dangerous criminals. He sets out to shut them down

Chapter 10 - Dream

North is now bringing people back to the church and killing them. Crane is consuming the resulting ghosts and his power is stretching from the Dreamlands. More and more of the church and the rest of the block into hellish-ness. The Ghostbusters each suffer a nightmare. The news the next day shows that this is a city-wide problem, seemingly focussed on the church. Tolan recognises the church from her studies, and vows to investigate

Chapter 11 - Exhuming McCarthy

Tolan and Holtzmann enter the church and follow a whole bunch of weirdness into the crypts. There, they find North and his book – North is skeletal, having been continually drained by Crane. He babbles about the Dreamlands and the coming of the Dreamer King. Tolan and Holtzmann return to HQ with North, and begin to work out what’s going on.

Chapter 12 - Tired of Singing Trouble

Yates heads off Hiess as he goes for lunch. She tries to convince him that what the Ghostbusters do is just as important as what he does. He tells her he’s sorry, but he’s already started the process to shut them down

Chapter 13 - Bang and Blame

Kevin fields a call…Yates has been arrested for hitting Hiess. Tolan and Gilbert jump in the car and head to the precinct to post bail. Holtzmann continues working on new bits of kit whilst keeping an eye on North. Crane manifests from the book and transports the HQ to the Dreamlands.

Chapter 14 - Bad Day

The three Ghostbusters get back to the HQ to find it gone. In the Dreamlands, Stantz, Holtzmann and Kevin are using everything they have keep from being devoured by the inhabitants. Crane directs the creatures to go for the containment unit – he wants to feast on the ghosts

Chapter 15 - Maps and Legends

The Ghostbusters hightail to the library to find everything they can about the Dreamlands. They find that Crane was one of a number of cultists buried with magical books: each contains a way into the Dreamlands, but they also are a way back. The cultists were powerful enough that they could shape reality to their desires – but only in the Dreamlands. However, if they could become powerful enough, they could bring the Dreamlands into reality The other cultists appear to be dead – not ghosts or dreams

Chapter 16 - I Don’t Sleep, I Dream

Crane breaks the doors off the firehouse. He reveals he is the last of the cult, the Dreamer King. He killed his fellows, devoured their essences and is now almost powerful enough to bring his dream city into the real world. The Ghostbusters drop back, unable to defend their position any more. Crane reaches the containment unit and begins to feed

Chapter 17 - The Wake-Up Bomb

The Ghostbusters arrive back at the HQ with the recovered books. They begin the spell to bring the building back from the Dreamlands when Hiess and a bunch of police turn up. They try to arrest the girls for desecration of graves, public endangerment. Yates hits Hiess again. At that, the HQ comes back. So to does Crane’s dream city – huge swathes of New York have been turned into the same weirdness from the church. Dreamland monsters running all over.

Chapter 18 - It’s the End of the World As We Know It

Holtzmann and the others escape the building, straight into the arms of the police. Stantz collapses from a non-fatal heart attack: he’s way too old for this shit. With the new team, assembled, the Ghostbusters inform the police they can be arrested later – they have a Dreamer King to put to sleep. Crane floats out to them, part-ghost and part-god. He wrecks the street. The Ghostbusters have a running battle with him, falling back into a nearby building. Tolan shows Holtzmann one of the other books they recovered. Inside, is a series of scribbled numbers and symbols. The others don’t know what they are, but she does – frequencies. She retunes each of their packs.

Chapter 19 - What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?

Full-scale battle with Crane. The new frequencies blast chunks from him and his city. Reality stutters – the Ghostbusters fall in and out of the Dreamlands. They struggle on. Kevin distracts Crane. The Ghostbusters blast hiim to pieces, returning New York to normal.

Chapter 20 - The Great Beyond

With Stantz recovering in hospital, the Ghostbusters approach him with an offer for the firehouse. After he signs, they take on the mantle of Ghostbusters properly. Something breaks or a ghost escapes right at the end.

END

Okay, so that’s a long 'un, with a whole bunch of plot holes and stuff that needs fleshed out, but as an early draft…any thoughts, questions or comments?