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Nov 20, 2021 · Gozer, just as they were in the original, is quite visually striking. While the creature is genderless, Gozer again takes a visibly female form, one which closely resembles their appearance in the 1984 movie. Unconfirmed reports prior to Ghostbusters: Afterlife's release alleged that Olivia Wilde (House, Vinyl) would be playing Gozer. Those ...
May 17, 2023 · Gozer was brought to life by three different actresses in Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sony Pictures/YouTube Slavitza Jovan has 10 acting credits on IMDb, including one in 1999's "House on Haunted Hill ...
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Gozer (also known as Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Gozer the Traveler, Volguus Zildrohar and Lord of the Sebouillia) is the main antagonist of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters: Afterlife. It is an ancient, ultra-powerful, malignant entity from another dimension who was summoned to New York City in 1984, and to Summerville in 2021, to destroy the world.
Gozer in the Primary Canon is developed from Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters: Afterlife. In Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Realistic Versions), a Secondary Canon, Ghostbusters (1984) pre-dates the game, Ghostbusters: Afterlife conflicts with the game as it comes after. Gozer (prime) appears in the IDW Comic Series, a Secondary Canon, which foll...
Primary Canon HistorySecondary Canon HistoryTertiary Canon HistoryIn "The Real Ghostbusters", Gozer never appears, but has been referred to on a few occasions. In one episode where the PK readings were through the roof, Winston referred to the rapidly rising rates as similar to when they fought Gozer, however Egon reassured him that he studied the readings and rightfully concluded it would not mean the return of Gozer. In the NOW comic based on The Real Ghostbusters, Egon was briefly transported to an alternate Earth where Gozer had apparently won and wiped all life from it. In one panel, graffiti reading "Gozer rules!" can be seen. •For more information of the animated version of Gozer go to the animated article.Tertiary Canon HistoryGhostbusters: Afterlife ScAReAs seen from Gozer's violent behavior when confronted by the Ghostbusters, Gozer is a cold, ruthless, godlike being, who has no qualms about killing those it deems inferior. Its reaction to Ray Stantz's blunt response to it asking if he was a god, also shows that it looks down upon mortal beings, seeing them as not worth bothering with. As seen from its aggressive response to the Ghostbusters attacking it to begin with, it also has a tendency to lash out whenever provoked. As indicated by its monologue prior to its transformation, it is bookish and overly dramatic in its mannerisms. In an interview, Slavitza Jovan described Gozer as being "almost arrogant," as well as "seeing humans as being beneath her".
As evident from its few utterances in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, it sees ordinary human beings, children included, as nothing more than potential sacrifices. It is also shown to be somewhat officious, as it seems uninterested in conversations with those it deems beneath their notice, as shown when it bluntly and straightforwardly asks Phoebe if she has come to it to offer herself in sacrifice, as well as its exhibited social cues when Phoebe was telling jokes to it. Gozer also responds violently when a follower oversteps their boundaries. This was evidenced when Ivo Shandor suggested he and Gozer would rule the world together and it violently bisected him in response, which also shows that it much prefers to rule alone.
Secondary Canon Classification
In IDW Comics' ongoing series, Ray remarks Gozer is a Class 7. In Ghostbusters: The Board Game, Gozer is a Class 7.
Tertiary Canon Classification
In Ghostbusters: Afterlife ScARe, Gozer is a Class 7.
Primary Canon Powers and Abilities
Gozer the Gozerian is usually reputed, with few exceptions, to be the most powerful being the Ghostbusters have ever faced. It displayed an extraordinary array of abilities including dimensional travel, shape-changing, telepathy, great agility and stamina, lightning blasts, invisibility, intangibility, pyrokinesis and weather control. In fact, its mere entering Earth's dimension caused increases in paranormal activity and the disruption of natural forces (the storm clouds and earthquake before the battle). However, Gozer does have limitations and weaknesses (as few as they may be); primarily, the Gozerian Temple atop the Shandor apartment building was its means for entering Earth's dimension. In fact, by the time the Ghostbusters crossed the streams, Gozer had still not fully entered our world and must therefore create a form chosen by man as an irony. Because of its limited time on Earth, Gozer's true power is not known. Had the Ghostbusters delayed, Gozer might have become too powerful for Total Protonic Reversal to stop it. This remains pure conjecture and speculation. Thankfully, the Ghostbusters did destroy the temple and banish Gozer back to its own universe. In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, it is shown that Gozer requires both Zuul and Vinz Clortho in order to maintain its form on the physical plane. If one is removed (such as the case of Zuul being captured in a Trap), Gozer's form and power is split. Despite that, Gozer's fractured form is still powerful in its own right, as it was able to wrangle Lucky's Proton Stream and pull her away from the others, as well as successfully wrestle the Trap containing Zuul from Callie and break it open. In its completed form, Gozer was able to un-cross three crossed Proton Streams, and its lightning was powerful enough to beat back a single Proton Stream.
Secondary Canon Powers and Abilities
In Ghostbusters: The Video Game, during its second coming, it had no portals to transport it fully, so in its new (but still Stay Puft) form, it was relatively weak and required a lot more power to absorb to become the true being it is supposed to be. Because of that, the Ghostbusters managed to defeat it a second time.
Ghostbusters (1984) Trivia
•In the January 20, 1983 script, Gozer was noted as the absolute ruler of the sixth dimension. •According to Dan Aykroyd, Gozer was based on several things - a Gozer Chevrolet dealership in upstate New York and was a name related to a documented haunting in Enfield, England in 1977, the one "Poltergeist" was based on. During the haunting, the name Gozer appeared on walls and things. •In the Enfield case, a medium named Annie Shaw was brought in to investigate the Enfield manifestation. While in a trance she moaned, "Gozer, Gozer, help me. Elvie, come here." After coming to from her trance, Annie explained that "Gozer" was a user of black magic and "Elvie" was an elemental, or form of lower spirit generally used by other spirits to do things for them. This "Elivie" was allegedly being used by "Gozer" and both were draining energy from residents of the house. •In addition, a "gozer" is a Hebrew term that refers to the mohel or surgeon who performs circumcisions within the religion of Judaism. •Gozer was originally supposed to look like Bert Parks then in later Aykroyd-Ramis collaborations, a Robert Young-type. For a while, the look of Gozer was going to based on David Byrne of Talking Heads. One day, Ivan Reitman came into the office and suggested they make Gozer a woman. Reitman thought it might be more interesting if Gozer was rather androgynous-looking, someone like David Bowie or Grace Jones •At first Harold Ramis didn't think the androgynous look would work but later realized Gozer choosing a contemporary form made sense. •In the original premise for the movie, Gozer was originally conceived as taking the form of Ivo Shandor, the builder of Gozer's temple. Ivo was to be played by Paul Reubens and described as being a kindly looking man in a nondescript suit and tie. Possibly an appearance for having first been introduced to the Earth realm during the 1920s. (Which, in turn, may have also been the inspiration for Peter's example describing Gozer returning in the form of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover) •Originally, Gozer was to have another form after the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. •Anne Carlisle, a punk rock singer, was offered the role of Gozer but she declined. Carlisle denied she was offered the role and turned down Gozer for sexist tones. •During auditions, Slavitza Jovan played Gozer as a timeless figure and an "almost arrogant Roman empress" who felt regular humans were beneath her. •The bright light from Gozer's arrival was done with a light bulb on a wire. •Due to Slavitza Jovan's Slavic accent, Gozer's voice was dubbed by Paddi Edwards. •Going off Jovan's accent, in the "Choose or perish" dialogue, Bill Murray did a take where he responded 'Jews and berries? I don't understand.' •Ivan Reitman was concerned Jovan's accent would come off as funny. Six to seven voices were considered. Reitman tried a traditional 'voice of God' but he thought it was too boring. He tried an effeminate male voice with mixed results. Ultimately, a very low Exorcist type female voice was chosen. •At around the 1 hour, 42 minute mark of the Preview Cut, included first in the 2022 Ghostbusters Ultimate Edition, after Gozer tells them to choose and perish, the "Jews and berries?" line appears. Peter telling Gozer they don't understand what "choose" means follows. •In the June 6, 1983 draft, Gozer was to have taken the form of a "a swirling psychic maelstrom topped by a disembodied aphid's head of monstrous proportions" over New Jersey. •In the July 6, 1983 draft of the movie script, Vinz Clortho stated there were more servants than he and Zuul, declaring the "Precursors of Gozer" numbered one hundred. •In the August 5, 1983 draft of the movie script, Gozer had one more title, "Scourge of the Glethestements," Glethestements being the religious text of the Sebouillia. •Because Gozer is referred as genderless, it (she) speaks with an androgynous voice neither feminine nor masculine but a combination of the two. •Gozer's double-flip was done by a stunt double at Entertainment Effects Group. •Gozer seems to share some similarities to the Babylonian goddess of fertility, sexuality and war Ishtar. She is also often depicted with her favorite pets, lions, like Gozer has its hell hounds.
Ghostbusters II Trivia
•In the August 5, 1988 draft, page 83, (and September 29, 1988 draft on page 85) Peter alluded to Gozer.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Trivia
•The passage Podcast reads refers to the Sumerians believing in a land of the dead. In Sumerian mythology, this realm was named Kur. It was said to be a dark and dreary cavern located deep underground where "a shadowy version of life on earth" existed. Some interpretations also refer to it as a desert. The dead did not have to undergo final judgment, nor were they punished nor rewarded for their deeds in life. They all ended up in the same place. The dead's quality of existence in Kur was determined by their conditions of burial. The ruler of Kur was the goddess Ereshkigal, who lived in the palace Ganzir. •The teenagers looking down the mine shaft and seeing a figure say "Gozer" mirrors the first movie when Dana Barrett looked in her refrigerator and sees a Terror Dog say "Zuul". •After coming down the mine elevator, there is a statue of the pre-chosen form Gozer took in first movie. •The Gozer statue was heavily inspired Polish sculptor Stainislaw Szukalski. •Phoebe notes Gozer is genderless. In the first movie, Chapter 26: Gozer, Winston thought Gozer was male then Egon states it's whatever it wants to be. •Jason Reitman reached out to Olivia Wilde via text and asked if she wanted to be Gozer in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. •Emma Portner portrayed Gozer whenever unusual body language was required and did the body performance for the spirit of Gozer. •Originally, Gozer's eyes were red but for unknown reasons, they were changed to black in post-production. •There are a few shots when Gozer briefly has red eyes, including after Phoebe shoots it in the head and during the shoot out between it and Phoebe. •It was Olivia Wilde's idea to add more spikes to the Gozer suit. •Olivia Wilde wasn't available to fittings prior to filming so Arjen Tuiten and his team had to figure it out on the fly the morning of Wilde's scenes. •Preparation for Olivia Wilde took five and half to six hours each day to get into costume and make up. •Lou Elsey and Beth Hathaway fabricated the Gozer bodysuit while Arjen Tuiten sculpted the neck. •Michelle Nyree made the wig, Aimee Macabeo styled the wig, and Jessica Nelson painted the lenses. •From the upper torso up to her mid-section, Wilde wore a zip-on silicon piece. Everything else was prosthetics. There was a forehead piece but Tuiten's team decided not to use it. •When Ivo Shandor is ripped apart by Gozer, an animatronic puppet with a switch blading mechanism was used. J.K. Simmons got to watch his puppet being ripped in half. •In one cut of the movie, Phoebe told more jokes to Gozer. •Bill Murray added variations on Peter's barrage of insults at Gozer. Only some ended in the theatrical version. Finn Wolfhard suggested Trevor should laugh to annoy Gozer even more but Jason Reitman urged him to keep playing it low-key. •Olivia Wilde eventually broke character and laughed at Bill Murray's insults to Gozer. •Jason Reitman advised Dan Aykroyd to join in and insult Gozer's godly aspects. •Olivia Wilde sat with Ernie Hudson for lunch while still in her Gozer costume. Wilde, in her spiky exoskeleton bodysuit and Pazuzu makeup, approached the introverted Hudson in the food line. •Peter refers to Gozer as "Flattop," a callback to the first movie when Ray says, "Aim for the flattop!" •Ray addresses Gozer to stop in a similar way he did in the first movie, Chapter 26: Gozer. •As a callback to the first movie, Chapter 26: Gozer, Gozer asks the Ghostbusters if they're gods. •Peter stalls Gozer by rambling on much like with Vigo in Ghostbusters II, Chapter 26: Ghostbusters vs. Vigo. •Gozer does not assume a Destructor form in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, nor does it offer the characters the choice of what form the Destructor should take. •In the end tag, Winston quotes one of his lines from the first movie, Chapter 26: Gozer, when they thought they defeated Gozer, telling Janine "I had the tools and the talent."
•Stay Puft Marshmallow Man - Gozer's Destructor Form.
•Ivo Shandor - The one who made Gozer's manifestation possible
Primary Canon Appearances
•Ghostbusters (1984) •Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard •Mentioned by Dana Barrett and Peter Venkman. •Chapter 19: Peter's Date with Zuul •Mentioned by Dana Barrett (possessed by Zuul). •Chapter 20: Keymaster •Mentioned by Louis Tully (possessed by Vinz Clortho) and Peter Venkman. •Chapter 22: Holding Cell •Mentioned by Peter Venkman. •Alluded to by Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddemore. •Chapter 26: Gozer •Chapter 27: Stay Puft Man •As Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. •Chapter 28: Crossing Streams •As Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. •Ghostbusters: Afterlife •Chapter 06 •Mentioned by Podcast. •Chapter 07 •Mentioned by demonic voice. •Chapter 10 •Mentioned by Trevor Spengler. •Chapter 12 •Mentioned by Podcast and Phoebe Spengler. •Chapter 13 •Statue of Gozer seen. •Mentioned by Trevor and Phoebe Spengler. •Chapter 15 •Chapter 16
Secondary Canon Appearances
•Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Realistic Versions) •IDW Comics •"Displaced Aggression 1" •Referenced by Peter on page nine. •"Displaced Aggression 4" •Referenced by Koza'Rai on page eight. •"IDW Publishing Comics- Past, Present, and Future" •"IDW Publishing Comics- Tainted Love" •Ray mentioned Gozer on page eight. •"Ghostbusters: Infestation 1" •"Ghostbusters: Infestation 2" •Volume One •Issue #1 •Issue #2 •Issue #4 •Issue #6 •Mentioned in P.C.O.C. Datasheet. •Issue #14 •Ray asks about Gozer on page two. •Volume Two •Issue #11 •Mentioned by Kylie Griffin on page 6 and 16. •On page 21, Tiamat alludes to Gozer. •Issue #12 •Mentioned by Ron Alexander. •Issue #13 •On page 19, Tiamat refers to Gozer. •Issue #14 •Issue #15 •Dramatis Personae - Louis Tully •On Page 8 and 9, mentioned by Kylie. •Issue #16 •Mentioned by the Judge Ghost on page two. •Mentioned by Future Egon on page four. •Mentioned by Ray on page 14. •Mentioned by Peter on page 15. •Mentioned by Narrator on page 18. •Issue #17 •Issue #18 •Issue #19 •Issue #20 •Mentioned in Story So Far •Mentioned in Tiamat's biography in Dramatis Personae •Alluded to by Peter on page 3. •Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ghostbusters •Issue #1 •Mentioned by Kylie on page 13. •Ghostbusters Annual 2015 •Mentioned in the Story So Far page. •Volume 3 •Ghostbusters International #7 •Mentioned on page 19 by Egon Spengler. •Ghostbusters International #8 •Alluded to by Winston on page 18. •Ghostbusters International #9 •Alluded to by Peter on page 9. •Winston alludes to Gozer's "Are you a god?" question on page 9. •Ghostbusters International #10 •Egon Spengler/Animated mentions Gozer on Page 15. •Ghostbusters Annual 2017 •Mentioned by Ray on page 41. •Ghostbusters 101 •Ghostbusters 101 #1 •Alluded to on What Came Before Page. •Ghostbusters 101 #3 •Ghostbusters 101 #4 •Mentioned on page 24 in Megatraps section. •Ghostbusters 101 #5 •Mentioned by Erin Gilbert on page 12. •Mentioned on page 23. •Ghostbusters Crossing Over •Ghostbusters Crossing Over Issue #1 •Mentioned on page 13 by Walter Peck. •Issue #3 •Mentioned in Prime Ghostbusters' bio on Dramatis Personae Page 1.[100] •Issue #5 •Mentioned on page 16 by Koza'Rai.[101] •Issue #7 •Mentioned in memo on page 21.[102] •35th Anniversary: Ghostbusters •Mentioned by Ray Stantz on Page 13.[103] •Transformers/Ghostbusters: Ghosts of Cybertron •Issue #1 •Issue #2 •Issue #4 •Alluded to by Kremzeek on page 10.[104] •Mentioned by Ray Stantz on page 11.[105] •Ghostbusters Year One •Issue #4 •Mentioned by Egon Spengler on page 6.[106] •Insight Editions •Tobin's Spirit Guide •Section I: Ghosts of New York •Mentioned on page 21.[107] •Section III: Metaspecters •Mentioned on Page 38.[108] •Section IV: Gods and Major Demons •Mentioned on Page 63.[109] •Mentioned on Page 69.[110] •Section V: Gozer •Mentioned on Page 78.[111] •Mentioned on Page 79.[112] •Pages 80-81 •Mentioned on Page 82.[113] •Mentioned on Page 84.[114] •Mentioned on Page 87.[115] •Mentioned on Page 88 •Mentioned on Page 90.[116] •Mentioned on Page 91.[117] •Mentioned on Page 92.[118] •Mentioned on Page 93.[119]
Tertiary Canon Appearances
•The Real Ghostbusters ••Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed •Act 1 Scene 1 Ray's Introduction •Alluded to by Ray Stantz.[120] •Mentioned in Tobin Page #10.[121] •Ghostbusters: Afterlife ScARe •Episode 6: "Rest in Pieces" (voice only) •Episode 8: "Sumarian Showdown" •IDW Comics •Ghostbusters: Deviations •Cryptozoic Entertainment •Ghostbusters: The Board Game •Ghost Busted (manga) •On the preface, Chapter 5 page 107, and Chapter 6 page 157, Gozer is mentioned. •88MPH Studios •Legion 1 •Referenced by Corkie and Peter on page four. •Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular •Ghostbusters: Novel
Nov 26, 2021 · In a recent interview with TheWrap, director and co-writer Jason Reitman explained how the casting came about. “I’ve known Olivia a long time, we’ve wanted to work with each other a long ...
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Dec 31, 2021 · December 31, 2021. 6:27 pm. As part of a new interview with Empire, Ghostbusters: Afterlife director Jason Reitman touched on the return of franchise baddy; Gozer the Gozerian, revealing that not only did Olivia Wilde play the character in Afterlife, but two additional actresses had a hand in the character’s on-screen return!
My friends didn't think so, and I know yours didn't. [Zuul tries to attack, but Gozer signals her to stop] Winston Zeddemore : Okay, playtime's over. Let's toast this muffin. [they get out their proton-wands] Peter Venkman : Light them up. [they activate the wands] Winston Zeddemore : Man, I love that sound.
