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Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City.
- Ivan Reitman
- Elmer Bernstein
- June 8, 1984
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Ghostbusters (also known as "Ghost Busters", the original title) is a 1984 supernatural comedy film. The film was released in the United States on June 8, 1984. It was produced and directed by Ivan Reitman and stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver, Annie Potts, and Ernie Hudson. It is the start of the Ghostbusters Franchise related media and fits into the Movie and Animated continuities.
The movie is most known for its No-Ghost Sign, the line "Who ya gonna Call?", the Ghostbusters (theme song), and the Ecto-1 vehicle.
Main Characters
•Dr. Peter Venkman (portrayed by Bill Murray) •Dr. Raymond Stantz (portrayed by Dan Aykroyd) •Dr. Egon Spengler (portrayed by Harold Ramis) •Winston Zeddemore (portrayed by Ernie Hudson) •Janine Melnitz (portrayed by Annie Potts) •Dana Barrett (portrayed by Sigourney Weaver) •Louis Tully (portrayed by Rick Moranis)
Minor Characters
•Alice (portrayed by Alice Drummond) •Jennifer (portrayed by Jennifer Runyon) •Male Student (portrayed by Steven Tash) •(Library Administrator) Roger Delacorte (portrayed by John Rothman) •Dean Yeager (portrayed by Jordan Charney) •Removal Men •Real Estate Woman (portrayed by Rhoda Gemignani) •Marty •Hotel manager (portrayed by Michael Ensign) •Man at Elevator (portrayed by Murray Rubin) •Chambermaid (portrayed by Frances E. Nealy) •Hallway Bystander •Mrs. Van Hoffman (portrayed by Kathryn Janssen) •Mr. Smith •Donald •Roger Grimsby •TV Reporter during montage (portrayed by Christopher Wynkoop) •Chinatown Client •Larry King •Reporters (portrayed by Stanley Grover, Carol Ann Henry, James Hardy, Frances Turner, and Nancy Kelly) •Casey Kasem •Joe Franklin •Violinist (portrayed by Timothy Carhart) •Walter Peck (portrayed by William Atherton) •Woman at Party (portrayed by Patty Dworkin) •Tall Woman at Party (portrayed by Jean Kasem) •Marv at Party •Ted and Annette Fleming (portrayed by Paul Trafas and Cheryl Birchenfield) •Louis's Neighbor (portrayed by Eda Reis Merin) •Doorman (portrayed by Lenny Del Genio) •Policeman at Apartment (portrayed by Ric Mancini) •Coachman (portrayed by Danny Stone) •Police Sergeant (portrayed by Joe Schmieg) •Police Captain (portrayed by Joe Cirillo) •Con Edison Man (portrayed by Larry Dilg) •Ron Jeremy (a crowd extra) •Businessman in Cab (portrayed by Winston May) •Hot Dog Vendor (portrayed by Sam Moses) •Jail Guard (portrayed by Reginald VelJohnson) •City Hall Police •Mayor Lenny (portrayed by David Margulies) •Fire Commissioner (portrayed by John Ring) •Police Commissioner (portrayed by Norman Matlock) •Mayor's Aide (portrayed by Tommy Hollis) •Archbishop (portrayed by Tom McDermott) •Bill Walton (a crowd extra)
Entities
•Library ghost (known in The Video Game as Eleanor Twitty and portrayed by Ruth Oliver) •Terror Dogs •Zuul (voiced by Ivan Reitman) •Vinz Clortho •Slimer (portrayed by Mark Bryan Wilson and voiced by Ivan Reitman) •Dream Ghost (Ghost appearing in Ray's dream and portrayed by Kym Herrin) •Slimers (mentioned) •Sloar (mentioned) •Torb (mentioned) •Subway Ghost •Zombie Taxi Driver •Gozer (portrayed by Slavitza Jovan and voiced by Paddi Edwards) •Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (Gozer's Destructor Form)
•Electro-Shock Generator
•Camcorder
•Recording Module
•External Camera light
•Stethoscope
•P.K.E. Meter
•Stay Puft Marshmallows
•The Atlantic Monthly
•Omni
•Wise Foods Products
•Mass Sponge Migration (mentioned)
•Philadelphia Mass Turbulence of 1947 (mentioned)
•New York City
•New York City Public Library
•Columbia University
•Weaver Hall
•Manhattan City Bank
•Firehouse
Three misfit parapsychology research professors that specialize in ghosts, Dr. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), Dr. Raymond Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), and Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), find themselves looking for work after Columbia University terminates their grant.
Before they are kicked out of Columbia, they investigate a haunting at the New York City Public Library and after seeing some symmetrical book stacking they encounter a ghost librarian (the Gray Lady) that runs them out of the Library.
Without a way to share their findings, Venkman, Stantz, and Spengler take matters into their own hands. They start a business named "Ghostbusters", a "professional paranormal investigation and elimination service", out of an old firehouse, using a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Ambulance dubbed "Ecto-1" to get about the city and hiring Janine Melnitz (Annie Potts) to handle the phones and clerical work. Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) of 550 Central Park West, comes to the Ghostbusters and asks for their help after she experiences some horror in the kitchen of her own home. The Ghostbusters do a few tests to determine that she isn't crazy as she recounts a paranormal experience in her kitchen centering around the name "Zuul". Peter seizes the opportunity to get romantically closer to Dana and goes with her to the apartment. Using the Ghost Sniffer he checks out the place, finds nothing in the main room, and bedroom. Dana then directs him toward the kitchen where he finds eggs that cooked themselves on the counter but gets no readings on the Ghost Sniffer despite using it correctly.
Meanwhile, their funds are nearly dried up eating a Chinese food dinner, which they ate slowly. Janine gets a call with a serious client, and she rings the alarm bell. The Ghostbusters run and get dressed, then leave in the Ecto-1. They show up at the Sedgewick Hotel and the Hotel manager tells them that they are having problems with a resident ghost. Following a successful test of the equipment, they split up to search the hotel for the ghost. Peter finds the ghost which then slimes him. Egon calls Ray to tell him that the ghost is now in a ballroom. They enter the ballroom and as they attempt to capture it, they destroy the room and make a lot of noise. They ultimately manage to capture the ghost, and they find themselves an overnight success across both New York City and the nation. As the amount of calls grows, the team is required to hire a fourth member, Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson). An unwanted side effect of their newfound popularity produces Walter Peck (William Atherton) from the Environmental Protection Agency. He comes to the firehouse trying to inspect the Storage facility which Peter refuses to let him do.
One night, Dana enters her apartment and is talking on the phone to her mother. After she hangs up, she gets grabbed by claws that burst out of her chair. She is taken into the kitchen where she becomes possessed by Zuul. Meanwhile, Louis Tully (Rick Moranis), another resident of the apartments, is hosting a party for the fourth anniversary of him becoming an accountant when a dog (also described as a bear and a cougar - but really a Terror Dog) attacks, and chases him out of the building and to a restaurant where it possesses him.
Peter makes a visit to Dana's apartment. He quickly realizes that she has been possessed by Zuul, the Gatekeeper of Gozer. Changed radically by her possession, Dana aggressively tries to seduce him but ends up growling fiercely and levitating above her bed in frustration after he repeatedly rejects her advances.
Ghost Smashers
The concept was inspired by Aykroyd's own fascination with the paranormal, and it was conceived by Aykroyd as a vehicle for himself and for his friend and fellow Saturday Night Live alumnus John Belushi. The original story as written by Aykroyd "Ghost Smashers" was very different than what would be eventually filmed. In that version, a group of Ghostbusters would travel through time, space and other dimensions taking on huge ghosts. In late 1981, Dan Aykroyd began writing his first draft. Work on the script was slow and steady over the next few years due to other projects Aykroyd worked on. On March 5, 1982, while he was writing one of Venkman's lines, Aykroyd heard Belushi had passed away. Aykroyd sent a half-completed script to Bill Murray and spoke to him about picking up the mantle left by Belushi. Murray responded favorably to the script's concept so Aykroyd took it to Ivan Reitman. Reitman looked through the script, which only had 40-50 pages done at that point, and had no idea how he could make it into a movie- alternate dimensions, very little character work, an all black somewhat sentient car that could dematerialize and a special effects budget he estimated to cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Still, Reitman did like the comic attitude contrasted with a serious script. He set it aside. Undaunted, Aykroyd kept working on the script and finished it months later on January 20, 1983. The finished script was around 180 pages. He submitted the final script to Reitman in April along with concept drawings by artist friend John Daveikis and a videotape of himself wearing a jumpsuit based uniform and makeshift nutrona wands and a Proton Pack fashioned from styrofoam and old radio parts. At the time, several of Reitman's projects were stalled in various stages of development. Eager to get something into production, Reitman took another look. •"Ghost Smashers"-
The Meeting
Reitman honed in on the idea of a group of men operating from a firehouse and responding to emergency calls like firefighters would. Reitman got a laugh out of the concept, equipment, car and logo but had reservations about the fantasy elements. He had a lunch meeting with Aykroyd at Art's Delicatessen in May 1983. Reitman made some suggestions to which Aykroyd immediately took to such as setting the movie in a modern American city, doing an origin story, and bringing in Harold Ramis. After their meeting, Reitman and Aykroyd went to The Burbank Studios and talked to Harold Ramis. At the time, Reitman and Ramis had offices there. Ramis happened to be reading one of Aykroyd's other scripts, one about the Canadian Mounted Police. Aykroyd told him to put it aside and take a look at his Ghostbusters script. After about 20 minutes, Ramis was in. Later in the afternoon, Reitman called his agent Mike Ovitz, who also represented Aykroyd, Ramis and Murray, and asked him to set up a meeting with Columbia Pictures chairman Frank Price. Reitman did a 5 minute pitch to Price about the Ghostbusters concept. Price liked it and asked about the budget. Without a final script and knowledge of such a movie, Reitman pulled a number out of thin air since his last movie was $10 million. Price advised him to keep the budget in the mid-$20 million range and gave Reitman 13 months to make a summer tentpole movie for 1984. With no script, two writers, two associate producers, most of the main cast, and no special effects house, Ghostbusters was greenlit. •Scripts- •Casting History-
First Aykroyd-Ramis Draft
The first collaborative script between Aykroyd and Ramis was completed on June 6, 1983. The main thrust of the draft was to come up with a new story that made sense to Aykroyd, Ramis and Reitman. Ramis came up with setting up the main characters as parapsychologists working at a university. More were slowly added to the crew - John DeCuir, cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge, and editor Sheldon Kahn. With input from Edlund and DeCuir, the budget was adjusted from $25 million to $30 million. A rough story outline was achieved in the first draft. They settled on how the main characters would start out and where they would end up but the fine details still needed to be worked out. In terms of pacing, the movie didn't take off until the hotel around page 40. The Ghostbusters were fired from a small college in New England and went to New York. They investigated a converted farmhouse where a family was being bothered with incessant knocking. Aykroyd and Ramis added in a love interest named Zuul, an alien fugitive from another dimension. After watching a diet cola commercial, the alien and her compatriot transforms into a beautiful female human and a heavy set male human. The romance proved too comedic. Peter and Zuul go to a restaurant. Zuul sees woman taking their wraps off and attempts to take her blouse off. After leaving a restaurant, Zuul takes pity on a carriage horse and kisses it with genuine emotion, leaving the driver concerned. Peter takes Zuul to the Times Square Motor Hotel. The next morning, he wakes up to find Zuul has taken on a warthog form. Some effects were still rather elaborate. When the Containment Unit releases the ghosts, they descend upon a subway station and hover over the tracks then hitch a ride on the express train to uptown. Like the beginning, the end wasn't solely set in New York. Egon concluded a small community in northern New Jersey was the likely epicenter of major psychic activity. The reason was its proximity to three nuclear power plants and chemical waste storage areas. The Ghostbusters would ultimately regroup in New Jersey and battle Gozer, who took on the form of a swirling psychic maelstrom topped by a disembodied aphid's head of monstrous proportions
Films. Original series. Ghostbusters (1984) Ghostbusters, the first film in the series, is a 1984 sci-fi comedy film about three New York City scientists. After they are fired from Columbia University, they start their own business investigating and capturing ghosts.
- 1984–present
- Ghostbusters (1984)
Apr 9, 2024 · Set in New York City, Ghostbusters begins with three parapsychologists—Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Raymond Stantz (Aykroyd), and Egon Spengler (Ramis)—being called to investigate paranormal activity at the main branch of the New York Public Library.
Set 32 years after the events of Ghostbusters II, it follows a single mother and her children who move to an Oklahoma farm they inherited from her estranged father Egon Spengler, a member of the original Ghostbusters.
- $75 million
- Ivan Reitman
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Nov 19, 2021 · Ghostbusters: Afterlife follows Callie Spengler (Carrie Coon) and her children, Phoebe (McKenna Grace) and Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), as they move to Summerville, Oklahoma following the death of Callie’s father Egon, a scientist who was one of four original ghostbusters in the 1980s.
