So I was browsing around the inter webs and come across this picture of the subway Frog ghost that was cut out of GB2. I’ve seen the behind the scenes photo but this looks like it might be a screen grab from a work print. I don’t know. Has anyone else seen this image?
Awesome find.
Looks scarier than you’d think from the behind the scene photo.
Its a leak from the upcoming “The Director’s Son had nothing better to do during Quarantine after reviewing multiple reels from the original 2 films for his new one & realizing GB2 can be improved cut” …
It’s a heavily-photoshopped snapshot of the monster prop whilst it was at (I presume) the ILM production workshop. You can see the unedited photo here on the Ecto-Containment Unit: Link
Good eye, Kingpin!
I’d say that’s definitely a match.
Alex
Ben beat me to it! It’s an older fan mockup. Not a bad one, either! They did a better job of showing the creature in context than the standard goofy, bright creature shop photos. The art really reminds me of the ILM key art pieces from GB2.
The Frog ghost was built at John Dykstra’s Apogee before Ivan cut the sequence, well before any compositing work had begun. I don’t believe the subway driver/plates were filmed, but I could be mistaken.
I’m guessing they were trying to have some sort of continuity with “giant frog ghosts”, as the bathtub monster was a similar frog at one point. There were even a few dinosaurs in the script at one point… hmmm…
The original version of this scene with Stantz, Spengler, and the dead commuters in the 8/5 draft was way, way cooler.
There’s another production photo on the Wiki: Link
“Ok, who brought the frog?”
Did someone say, Terror Frog?
HAAAAAAAA!!! I love it!
Say Alex, whose Facebook did you get this image from? Does Lazzarini have one?
Thanks, Ben.
Much appreciated 
Wait. Are you sure no compositing or plate work was done? You’re the behind the scenes guru on this stuff so is the story about Ivan cutting the sequence, due of the reactions of the extras, not true?
What’s interesting to me about the image I posted is the frog looks a little too “clean” for it to be legit(which means it was done digitally) yet the blue lightning looks rotoscoped.
I wasn’t a big fan of the frog creature in the bathtub idea. She fries it by putting the blow dryer in the bathtub. But if it’s a “ghost”…how exactly does that work?
I wish we would have access to someone who worked on this films post production so we can get answers on what was finished & what wasn’t. Like all the Slimer stuff. I was always under the impression all that stuff was 100% finished. We’ve even seen the picture of Slimer going after the chicken on wires. I find it hard to believe the deleted scene included on the blu ray of Louis trying to catch Slimer with the proton pack was as finished as that scene got. The end credits have that shot of Slimer in the rear view mirror, which is missing from the deleted scene on the blu and it’s not like they would’ve completed just that rear view mirror shot only for the end credits. Which begs the question. Where the hell are these finished scenes?
The schedule for GB2 was so nuts I think a lot of the stuff that was cut that features VFX was finished. That Slimer going after the chicken is totally finished. And we’ve all seen that Will Forsche home video footage of all the Slimer footage they shot with Robin Shelby.
I got it at the link Kingpin provided in the post above mine.
Alex