# Where to read the First Draft? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Ghostbusters Discussion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/where-to-read-the-first-draft/23160 "2015-01-10T01:16:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![systemcat](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/systemcat/32/6591_2.png) [@systemcat](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/systemcat)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/where-to-read-the-first-draft/23160/1 "2015-01-10T01:16:25Z")
Recently I found an old script site that some how missed my attention in earlier web browsing. Loaded with tons of Hollywood goodness, I bookmarked the site and proceeded to download what interested me. I enjoy reading scripts that aren’t the final draft. The site had Ghostbusters, but it was labeled that it was the shooting script, so so much for reading “what if” to what we’ve seen. Is the first draft any where to be found online for free reading? ---
**Author:** ![mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/mrmichaelt/32/188045_2.png) [@mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/mrmichaelt)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/where-to-read-the-first-draft/23160/2 "2015-01-10T05:16:30Z")
No, the first draft (Ghost Smashers) is not available to be read. Sequentially, the first and second Aykroyd-Ramis collaborative draft are not, as well. The earliest available one is the third Aykroyd-Ramis collaborative draft. > **[Spook Central - Ghostbusters Scripts - theraffon](http://theraffon.net/spook-central-ghostbusters-scripts-2/)** > > The book “Making Ghostbusters” says that there were five drafts made of the “Ghostbusters” script. I have found that there \[…\] ---
**Author:** ![systemcat](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/systemcat/32/6591_2.png) [@systemcat](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/systemcat)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/where-to-read-the-first-draft/23160/3 "2015-01-10T13:16:23Z")
Thanks for the info, and the link :). ---
**Author:** ![mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/mrmichaelt/32/188045_2.png) [@mrmichaelt](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/mrmichaelt)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/where-to-read-the-first-draft/23160/4 "2015-01-11T03:34:33Z")
You’re welcome and hope you enjoy the read. ---
**Author:** ![VincentVegaFFF](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/4af34b/32.png) [@VincentVegaFFF](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/VincentVegaFFF)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 7:58am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/where-to-read-the-first-draft/23160/5 "2015-01-19T07:58:59Z")
I wish some company would publish the first drafts of this and Blues Brothers as books. I’ve wanted to read these for years. ---
**Author:** ![d\_osborn](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/d_osborn/32/179392_2.png) [@d\_osborn](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/d_osborn)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/where-to-read-the-first-draft/23160/6 "2015-01-19T20:23:20Z")
> [@VincentVegaFFF](#): > > I wish some company would publish the first drafts of this and Blues Brothers as books. I’ve wanted to read these for years. Don’t we all! Aykroyd’s original GB script is sort of my “white whale”. It would be really cool if IDW would adapt Aykroyd’s original script into a graphic novel, similar to the recent THE STAR WARS rough draft series, based on one of the early George Lucas SW scripts. [Tristan Jones](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/uncategorized/tristan-jones) hinted around about possibly adapting the HELLBENT script for RGB or EGB, so I guess it’s possible. Aykroyd’s 324 page first draft of THE RETURN OF THE BLUES BROTHERS from 1979 is out there, though. ---
**Author:** ![Xxoxia](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xxoxia](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Xxoxia)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/where-to-read-the-first-draft/23160/7 "2017-01-16T21:48:03Z")
While I can’t help you with Ghost Smashers, I surely can help you with the first draft of the Dan and Harold collaborated Ghostbusters. I have a scan of it, if you are still interested and haven’t found it already. ---
**Author:** ![systemcat](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/systemcat/32/6591_2.png) [@systemcat](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/systemcat)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 4:09am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/where-to-read-the-first-draft/23160/8 "2017-01-17T04:09:47Z")
That would be cool too, I’d love to read it, thanks! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Xxoxia](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/958977/32.png) [@Xxoxia](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Xxoxia)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/where-to-read-the-first-draft/23160/9 "2017-01-17T13:52:50Z")
I made another thread which has the link in it! ---
**Author:** ![Seth\_Rex](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@Seth\_Rex](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Seth_Rex)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/where-to-read-the-first-draft/23160/10 "2017-02-08T01:16:22Z")
What is this web site you speak of? I too love to read a good screenplay…as well as write them lol.