@@Bulletsandblockbusters of course that game was unbelievable but this would have been so awesome if it was made in live action with the original actors
@@jeremyriley1238 Afterlife felt more like an epilogue. A true GB3 film should’ve been set in the 90’s like the video game, they probably could’ve even got Rick Moranis to return before he officially retired
@jeremyriley1238 I definitely would say Afterlife is a Ghostbusters 3. Like yes, it is the third installment of that universe. Ghostbusters the video game is by far more of a Ghostbusters 3 than Afterlife is. It literally continues from Ghostbusters 2.
To me, afterlife was more like a fourth movie than a third installment, really. I wish they did do that but that would probably confuse the majority of people that have sadly not played the game. It's also sadly. The reason it didn't do so well because the lack of marketing I bet I'm glad they did remastered it though. Still should be canon it even properly explained about everything about shandor and the moods line, which probably has a connection between gozar and vigo I always knew there was a connection between them and that she helped vigo rise ine power@HeyJay2000
There's also another major issue that put the brakes on ghostbusters 3 and played a roll in Bill Murray rejecting anything to do with it. From my understanding him and Harold Ramis weren't on good terms after making the movie "groundhogs day." There was a lot of friction on set between them and they had a falling out and weren't on speaking terms up until Harold Ramis became ill and was close to passing away.
I believe it was in Netflix's Ghostbusters episode of "The Movies That Made Us" where Ramis' daughter said Murray went to Chicago toward the end of Harold's life, stopped by a police station, asked if they could take him to see Harold (they hadn't spoken in so long, he didn't know where Ramis lived anymore), they did, and the two made up before Harold's passing. As a lifelong Ghostbusters fan, that story had me in tears.
the closest we'll ever get to the Ghostbusters 3 is the Ghostbusters Videogame, that had a script written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, and featured all of the ghostbusters since it was made before Harold's passing
I have a soft spot for Ghostbusters 2. It does have much too similar structure to the first one but I like that it brings in the river of slime, Vigo, elevated Louis' role, the Statue of Liberty scene, and just the overall message that kindness will triumph in the end.
I loved 2 more than the original when I was a very young lad in the early 90s, and I still have a soft spot for it, but the original overtook its place in my heart by my early teens. I even went well over a decade without seeing 2 until my late-20s, and I somehow never recognized the same plot beats until then.
Consider what box office competition it had, it did surprisingly well. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade had just come out in the previous weeks, Star Trek: The Voyage Home had come out the week before. Then Ghostbusters, then the next week The Batman movie and Honey I shrunk the Kids, then Lethal Weapon 2 the week after.
I quite enjoyed Afterlife, but in my ideal world, Ghostbusters 3 would have been made in 1991 or 1992 or something, and Ghostbusters 4 would have been a reunion movie made around 2011/2012 with the original cast coming back for one last adventure (along the lines of Star Trek VI:The Undiscovered Country). 2016 and 2022 would have been next generation movies with a handover to a new crew carrying on the legacy.
We kind of got Ghostbusters 3, it’s also set in 1991, it’s a video game written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, it casts all four of the original Ghostbusters, Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz and William Atherton as Walter Peck.
@@dino-man5475 Yeah I have played the video game, and I did enjoy it, but I sort of felt like it was Ghostbusters 1.5 bringing back all the usual elements like Slimer, Stay Puft, and linking back to Gozer and Shandor (which Afterlife was also guilty of). The game is the closest thing we’ll have to Ghostbusters 3, but I still dream of a parallel universe where there was a live action movie back in the early 90’s with a brand new villain and plot.
@@jasonorrissWell, at least we did get gorick. However, you spell his name. I just tell him that for sure. Cause it sounds cooler and he was definitely a cool villain. I would still love to see a team up with him and vigo and gozer Literally a sinister, six moment orchestrated and led by a god among gods that brings them together.
In all honesty, the fact that Ghostbusters Afterlife was able to reunite the original OG Ghostbusters, even for an appearance was a feat into itself. To be fair, Ghostbusters the video game with the original cast is as close to Ghostbusters 3 as we may as well get.
When I first heard about the all female Ghostbusters I was very excited about it. I thought it would be a cool new take on it and be different enough that people who loved the original wouldn't feel like it was stepping on any toes and it could be a whole new awesome thing. BUUUUUUUUUUUT the problem with it wasn't that it was four female characters, the problem was that it was horribly written and directed and was complete garbage. Truly disappointing.
This video essay conjured up a memory that before it went into production, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey had the working title of "Bill and Ted go to Hell". I don't know how many changes were made from the original draft from what we got (since there's at least one Hell sequence in the finished product), but it might make for an interesting essay if there's any information to mine about it.
I thought that the third would have Ivo Shandor as the main antagonist as his existence was hinted at in the first movie when the Ghostbusters were arrested as well the Videogame was closest thing to a third movie until Afterlife came and we got J.K.Simmons as Ivo Shandor. Do Ridley Scott’s I am Legend
In the original script, Ivo Shandor was supposed to be the original antagonist in the film, not Zuul. It was supposed to have been Paul Reubens as Ivo Shandor and it would have been that Shandor was posing as the owner of the Sedgewick Hotel who the Ghostbusters meet in the beginning (the "WE GOT ONE!" scenes) and orchestrated the whole downfall of the Ghostbusters via Walter "Dickless" Peck.
@@queencancerous5332Pretty sure he's still around because how can you possibly kill something that's already dead plus in the game. He was also a ghost. I won't suspected the reason gozer ripped him in half. Because she was still p***** of him, trying to overthrow her and then he acts like a coward and comes crawling back to her.
I absolutely love Ghostbusters 2. Also, the video game is phenomenal and Afterlife was really good. Especially considering it had to set up a whole new cast and it was focused on kids.
I think Hellbent could have been an interesting films, not sure through if it would have been successful as it sounds much more like a horror film with the Ghostbusters in it than a Ghostbusters films. I will disagree with a couple things you said. Saying the Ghostbusters audience is mostly male isn't exactly true, it also has a large female component. The fact that they didn't support the film either shows no one wanted this film. With Afterlife, it is actually a pretty good show. I have never seen Stranger Things, it has 0 appeal to me despite growing up in the 80s but I thought tying Afterlife back to the original film like that was a good way to restart things. Considering they are making a sequel to it and not dropping it like thr 2016 film, it couldn't have been all bad.
"Hellbent" sounded like it potentially would've been a lotta fun. Since such a movie nowadays would be impossible, if I were Sony, I would make the story into a video game. It could be the official-unofficial midquel between Ghostbusters 2 & Afterlife.
It went through a few versions with some radical differences like being set in Scotland for example. I’m not sure which is the one Murray liked. It may have been more of a case of the pitch he heard being better than the script he’d eventually read.
The 2016 film issue wasn’t that the team was all female, it was that it was led by a one trick pony, that the press tour had actresses label anyone with genuine criticism as a ‘moms basement dwelling troll’ & that they waited until the VERY last second to release any footage I felt for Jones & McKinnon as they weren’t bad in the film but they couldn’t save it
The actors themselves were good, but the marketing and press releases were a terrible way to market a movie. The same was with netflixs Cowboy Bebop, they literally said that fans are stupid, so how did they expect people to feel? I did like the idea of having Chris Hemsworth playing a guy who is nothing but eye candy for the ladies. Because that's what he is mostly made to be, and this seemed like a parody of that.
I disagree, I went in to watch Afterlife knowing that I had played the video game and watched the original 2 films. Yes, it doesn't feature the original team until the end, but I like the fact that it doesn't force it on you that it HAS to be ghostbusters this, ghostbusters that. I liked the fact that it was Phoebe Spengler who found her grandfather's ghostbusters stuff in the hidden bunker too.
I've said this before... if the girl ghost busters was a sequel, and didn't make every male character in the movie an idiot or evil... it could have worked. The fact that they didn't comprehend this boggles my mind
I view Ghostbusters: The Video Game as the third official movie. I've watched an edited together version of the cut scenes/play through and found it to be significantly better than what we got in Answer the Call and Afterlife. I completely agree with your take on Answer the Call: know your audience and don't actively antagonize them. I don't mind the prospect of an all-female team, but the execution and finger pointing that went into that production took away any interest I might have had.
Afterlife was really good, imo. Way, way better than expected. And I saw the original at the theater with my parents, when it came out. Had the game on my C64, too. 😊
I really don't think Afterlife is that bad honestly. I'll take that movie over Answer the Call which I just like to pretend doesn't exist. I would have liked to see a Ghostbusters 3 around 1999-2000. It's too bad that it didn't get off the ground.
This proves the point I made about "Afterthought" (aka: Afterlife) was nothing more than a bandaid movie in response to the major backlash of the 2016 movie. Both are incredibly bad movies. The video game was what we should have gotten as a proper CGI third Ghostbusters installment.
The animated series had an episode which must have existed in 1999 and must have been absorbed intentionally or unintentionally, by Akroid when writing this treatment 🤔 don’t recall the episode name, but in it the busters were transported to a ghost-themed parallel New York, called ‘Boo York’
I enjoyed every Ghostbuster movie. You cant hit a homerun every time at the plate. So some of the product will be better than others. I even enjoyed the female Ghostbuster movie I thought it was funny. Some things could have been tweaked story wise but it wasn't horrible as people say.
Certainly, it is a franchise that I am very devoted to. I love the original movie. I love Ghostbusters 2. I love the video game and I can see why the fans love to say it serves as a great stand-in for a “third movie” and in addition I love Afterlife. However, the Hellbent script sounds interesting and I would like to see it get more recognition. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this project.
I dont have as much hate for the 2016 Ghostbusters. But the Hellbent premise really highlights the problems with modern franchise revivals. Hellbent wanted to grow and mix things up and variety was what everyone wanted. Now, its all about reverence, reference, and nostalgia trying to capture or retread the old rather than doing fresh and interesting new ideas. I wish I had played the Ghostbusters game
Tbh the 2016 was alright and most of the comedy was funny but I do blame the very first trailer that was bad and misleading when the movie finally came out
The first trailer was a complete dumpster fire. Jokes cut up and out of context, Patty looked like a clown and she ends up being the most reasonable and level headed one of the team, one of the jokes in the trailer that just seemed cringe and pandering got a genuine laugh outta me in theater. Movie had a lot of problems, including basically all of the 3rd act, but that first trailer doomed the whole thing.
The 2009 Ghostbusters Game Actually DID Bring Back ALL The Originals in Voice Form & Used MANY GB3 Plot Elements! So It's The TRUE 3rd Film, Whereas #Afterlife is More Like Pt.4 & Therefore: "Answer The Call" Pt.5
Answer the call is not part 4 😂😂 it’s not connected to the main franchise and is quite honestly a piss poor excuse of a ghostbusters movie. Disrespecting the originals and their characters.
I loved Ghostbusters 2 when I saw it in theaters, but it definitely is inferior. Now I’d like to know what the original Ghostbusters 2 that Murray was excited for would have been like!
Re-release "Ghostbusters The Video Game" as a realistic CGI movie and name it "Ghostbusters 3", "Ghostbusters 3: Hellbent", or just "Ghostbusters: Hellbent". There, problem solved. "Ghostbusters: Afterthought"... uh, I mean, "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" was absolutely terrible. It was a piece of shit, and nothing more than a bandaid to the (all female-cast) one. I didn't bother with the 2016 one and only saw Afterthought once, and that was it! No need to buy it, cause I have NO desire to EVER see that crap again!
No, this is dead. It has been rewritten too many times and changed too many time. Either go back to the original and get Murray to direct it or co-direct with Ackroyd or don't waste your time or the fan's time.
You Know, a mid '90s 3rd Ghostbusters movie starring the "Bad Boys of SNL" ( Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, David Spade, and Chris Rock with Rob Schneider in a small role) would have been a good "Passing of the Torch" movie for the franchise.
GB 2 got way too much hate. It was good in parts just a bit stupid in others. Compared to the other sequels its far superior. Bill Murray was really the only reason we never got a proper GB 3.
I love GB2, but that's also because I grew up with it. It definitely has its moments, but if I'm being objective I can see why it was a disappointment when it came out.
THANK YOU for calling 'Afterlife' out for what it is. Everything you said about it in this piece is what I said. The fandom was so desperate for something--ANYTHING that wasn't 2016's 'Answer the Call,' they put nostalgia blinders on because 1) We finally see the old gang of Ray, Peter, Winston & Egon (postumously) reunited & 2) Because many saw Afterlife as a last attempt at truly reinvigorating the franchise. I had a sense of that from the trailers & preview clips with the mini pufts, so even though I'm a die hard GB fan, I didn't see it theatrically. Eventually, when I did watch it, that third act confirmed every fear. It was cringy, eyeroll inducingly BAD. Ghostbusters is one those films that even though it deals in the fantastic, it's still very grounded in reality. The most real aspect of everything being the passage of time. There was a window for a true 3rd film & we all saw it slip away thanks to Bill Murray. The End.
I think Ghostbusters 3 should've began at The White House, similar to X-Men 2, where the staff witness poltergeist activity and the president encounters a ghost. It's revealedthere are numerous amateur ghostbusters throughout the country. Some are good at catching ghosts; others are not. The President requests the original Ghostbusters team- the real Ghostbusters- to come to the white House to solve the problem. The president explains that he was in Manhattan during the events of Ghostbusters 2 and was there when the fhostbusters brought the statue of liberty to life. The 4 original ghostbusters are invited to the white House where they investigate. I think a precise like that would've been good and had potential for some memorable comedy
I hated Gb ATC but I really enjoyed Afterlife. Been a fan since the first movie hit UK tv in Xmas 1987 - and have been very overly protective of the franchise. But I think that Afterlife was a great follow up. Appreciate it follows many of the same beats of the first movie but there is a ritual to the coming of Gozer so you couldn’t avoid the Keymaster/Gatekeeper vibe. Thing is you have to move the story onto a younger cast as so much has changed for the originals. So it was always going to feel like a coming of age movie in some way. The only comparison to `stranger things is Finn Wolfhard. If Trevor had been cast by anyone else this comparison wouldn’t be so prevalent. Great video though 👍🏻
The year Harold Ramis passed away was also the year Robin Williams passed away. I loved both of them, but I was upset with how little time they paid homage to Harold Ramis during the 2014 Academy Awards recap that year of actors that have passed away because Robin Williams got the majority of the tribute time, followed by Paul Walker. Both were great and deserving of the tributes they received but Harold barely got any and it was frustrating to see that, as Harold should have had more time then he received.
I still like Ghostbusters 2 better than the first. As a kid i enjoyed the kid friendy speed of the 2nd. As an adult i like the first but i still have a bigger place in my heart for 2
Can’t blame Murray for turning down the Manhattan/Hell script. Sounds horrible. No wonder he hemmed and hawed about doing a GB3 for years afterwards. However, the 2009 video game plot was pretty well done.
Afterlife was GREAT and set the story for more movies in the franchise, that is the plan. I watched fans crying at the end of that movie, not sure why your opinion is worth anything here, look at the sales of Afterlife and then this critic might want to rethink his opinion. I think we now need to have critics of the critics, many opinions of movies these days are so far off that you really should just ignore them.
I enjoyed seeing the guys reunite at the end like everyone else but many, including myself, felt the rest of the film was weak and half baked. If you or others loved it I think that’s great and I’m not trying to dampen your enjoyment of it.
@@Bulletsandblockbustersis kids that like it. They've seen like 5 movies total. They don't know good movies. You can stick anything in front of them and they love it
@@BulletsandblockbustersI agree. I went to see afterlife and it really didn't feel like a Ghostbusters movie. I wanted to see more of the OG Ghostbusters. The new characters aren't really interesting at all and honestly I couldn't care less about them. Ghostbusters to me is Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddmore, and Egon Spengler.
I thought the name "Manhellton" sounded stupid but I can totally hear Ray or Egon coming up with that name in the movie and it would make sense. If they can make a 50 foot Twinkie work, so can Manhellton.
Man, original few movies was the best. Everything else sucks. Well, except cartoons but that's another story. And the latest Ghostbusters movie is just... meh. It is not even Ghostbusters movie because, we don't even get the proper action until the very end of the movie. And honestly, I don't like it. It was just a waste of time. Because, you watch half of the movie a boring talking between the characters and only then they slowly starting to give you the ghostbusting action. And that action should have started long before the middle of the movie and the movie should end on a big bang, making everybody dropping their jaw. But nope. The writers for the movie completely missed the point of what Ghostbusters should have been. Thus, I don't even understand, how that Ghostbusters movie with the kids got successful. Cause it is boring right until the last part of the movie.
Ghostbusters 3 movie was temporary canceled But ultimately it got revived as they reworked Ghostbusters 3 into Ghostbusters AfterLife I'm so happy.They bought it back the third Ghostbusters film of the original saga And they have to introduce The family of one of the Ghostbusters members Ego Spengler.
It sounds like the "Man-Hell-ton" idea was worked into the animated series, or maybe it was vice versa? There was an episode very much like what you're describing where they visit "Boo York", a mirror image of New York completely inhabited by ghosts. I think it was called "Flipside"
So… THIS movie was going to be "Ghostbusters 3"-The OG! Right? Give me a REPLY if im RIGHT or not. "Ghostbusters III-H3llbent" If THIS movie WASNT canceled. "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" will be the FOURTH movie. Then "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" will be the FIFTH movie.
For me the first is the better of the saga, but also the second is very good.... We know that for years Murray surely don't wanted to do the third, and after the sad dead od Harold Ramis for me the question was closed. No original cast, no Igon, nevermore Ghostbusters movie. Instead the reboot, then Murray, who I don't know why, changes his mind and agrees to make two really poor sequels like 3 and 4. Personally I don't even consider the last two film like a real part of the original saga. I don't know how would been Hellbent, but surely better than the third. However, I still think that without Ramis the saga are finished.
Guys, relax. We'll get a proper Ghostbusters III within the next 50 years once motion capture CGI and AI-voice-synthesizers are perfected. Hollywood will have no financial or moral decision not to make it.
I think they should’ve done a Ghostbusters film with this cast: Adam Sandler as a Ghostbuster Kevin James as a Ghostbuster Bruce Campbell as a Ghostbuster Ted Raimi as a Ghostbuster Vince Vaughn as the new lawyer of the ghostbusters Simon Pegg as the new receptionist & Nick Frost as the new Mascot of the Ghostbusters brand, wearing a costume of the ghost from the logo, promoting Ghostbusters as a brand.
I personally can't stand what they did to ECTO-1 in Ghostbusters 2... What I don't get is why they changed the Ghostbusters logo, both on their uniforms and on ECTO-1, to have the ghost showing two fingers.
So , We could've gotten Ghostbusters 3 in hell and have Donald trump as the villain, Chris farley and Ben stiller as Ghostbusters , and Peter venkman as GOD but stupid bill murray rather be in that piece of crap reboot whith Melissa MCARTHY. He also rather be in 2 flippin garfield movies . WHY DOES LIFE HAVE TO SUCK .THEN WE ALSO GET THAT STUPID REHASH SHELL OF ITS FORMER SELF GHOSTBUSTERS AFTERLIFE .
Farking stray mouse and this site NOT remembering the three paragraphs I just wrote!! GGRRR.......... I was unaware that there was a script with adult Oscar and ghost Peter. I had a similar situation in the GB3 fanfic I wrote. It must have been on the heels of Harold's death, as I included his passing in it. It starts out a couple years after GB2, with the disappearance of Peter and Dana on their way to set up a franchise team in NOLA. In the present, Ray, Winston, and Janine were getting too old for this stuff, and are about to pass the torch to a new generation. Adult Oscar would have been Seth Rogen. Kylie from XGB I think I had planned for Rosario? A homeless man (Galifianakis) who had taken up residence in the alley behind the firehouse was humored by the team, unaware he was psychic, drawn to the Big Trap and was always talking to the ghosts inside. and Venkman. I think I had planned to include Winston's nephew/niece, as well? The Big Bad of the film would have been the Cult of Shandor, trying to carry out Ivo's masterplan of Hell on Earth. They only stop the Cult with the help of the franchisees, played in cameos by the GH/GHI teams, among others. Oscar and the team get closure on Peter and Dana in the end.
I think we dodged a bullet.I bet Ghostbusters 3: Hellbent would have been a terrible film. I Bet Ghostbusters 2016 and afterlife are way better films then what we would have got. I think a satanic Hellblazer style comedy would have killed the franchise.
To me Ghostbusters: Afterlife is Ghostbusters 3 even though the Ghostbusters video game is the closest well ever get to a Ghostbusters 3. To me the Paul Feig Ghostbusters reboot from 2016 is non cannon
Too bad GB3 never materialized. The concept sounds really cool. Bill murray was being a dick at that point IMHO. And I kindda liked afterlife, even though it doesn't feel like a Ghostbusters film. The less we talk about the paul feig Ghostbusters, the better. That movie was just cringe-worthy.
There was nothing kid friendly about Ghostbusters 2. Ooze out of the tub faucet, child sacrifice to Vigo the Carpathian, and even Vigo himself. Incredibly creepy. I remember as a kid we begged my dad to go see it. He caved and took us. We tried to sneak out of the theater, but my dad was like ohhhh no.. you begged me to watch it, now you're going to sticking to it lol still won't watch it to this day. Also, it sucks.
I just sucks they couldn't play off the end of GB2 when Slimer became an ally when giving Louis a ride on the bus. A 3rd movie featuring Slimer as a GB ally and a situation that would have required Slimer's help would have made sense. You can't tell me that wouldn't have sold tickets, and Slimer action figures. Actually, you CAN tell me, it just wouldn't make sense.
it's unbelievable how many great ideas and awesome cast options have been wasted for this franchise. In my opinion, the comedians from the early 2000s SNL would have been the best choice for a third movie, but also some from The Office cast would have been amazing, can you imagine someone like Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson and Will Ferrell together as Ghostbusters, with Aykroid and the others, all in the same movie? it would have been the best grossing movie of all times. The hell with Murray, they had an endless choice of good actors to replace him and it would have been just fine, at least we would have had a third movie when the brand was still relevant and we wouldn't have the crap we got nowadays, because honestly, the new Reitman reboots are as much irrelevant as the hideous Paul Feig reboot. I watched Afterlife on a plane a few years ago and I switched to another movie after 20 minutes, so much I was bored
How did this not mention the Ghostbusters the video game??? It had all original cast voice acting, and the script created a story arc from 1,2, and concluded in the video game. You can't talk about What could have been in GB3 without at least mentioning the premise of that game.
I hope the game is still Canon. Because it's so good after life was awesome. Also better than the second movie. But I feel like that was more of a 4 film rather than a third installment, and as for Ghostbusters 5 I would really love to see the hell idea revisited it may have been too ambitious for that time, but I think now is the perfect idea to revisit that I'd also love to see Oscar return. Even though his actor is sadly dead, but there's a bunch of actors that have played.Older versions of kid actors that did not reprise their roles.So I don't see how it would be a bad immoral decision Like I would really love to see that movie.Honor him like the last two honored, herald and ivan.
I should note the script for this movie, GB Hellbent is floating around, co written by Aykroyd and Tom Davis. It’s awful. Like…really bad. The core idea is good but the movie itself is just awful. There’s a character in the script whose 12 years old and is head of the GB’s research team and he’s described has having a brain so big it deformed his cranium. I’m serious. The kid is a genius but…yikes. Not only that but the new team of GB’s are all interchangeable and are so arch. There’s not near enough character stuff and there’s waaay too much Ghostbusting and spectacle. It doesn’t read like a comedy. Aykroyd needs someone like Harold Ramis and Ivan Reitman to reign him in. He’s a good idea guy. But this script is awful
First I love your channel. I have to disagree on some things. I think the Hell idea was not good, and I can see how this could alienate much of the fanbase. That said, the idea of God being Bill Murray is actually quote funny. Maybe if the film wasn’t set in hell but they glimpsed it - with glasses or something. I agree GB2 was a rehash (Star Wars Ep VII) but I don’t think you can stray too far. I liked GB Afterlife, as it does bring in new elements - like coming of age - but keep some familiar ideas. The concept of tying up Ivo Shandor and Gozer brings the story full circle and we have the torch passed on to a new generation - literally. My fear, however, is the sequel here….
Ghostbusters II is what killed the franchise. That movie was so lame that it makes the 2016 reboot and Afterlife look like masterpieces. Pink slime? Viggo the villain? Ugh. I'd rather watch the 2016 reboot or grab a pillow and try to watch Afterlife any day, instead. I'll never understand why people always bring up the representation of male characters as dumb being a huge issue in the reboot, but these same people have no problem with Thor being turned into a complete imbecile in the latest Thor movies.
Ghostbusters 3 did come out in video game form with all the original cast member reprising their voices.
Yup and it rocked
It's also Canon. I remember Winston saying he was getting his degree.
The lore in that game is fantastic!
If you know you know!
@@willcorker763 check again mate. It was changed for afterlife by Dan
@@Bulletsandblockbusters of course that game was unbelievable but this would have been so awesome if it was made in live action with the original actors
Dan Akroyd said in interviews that Ghostbusters the video game (2009) is pretty much the closest to Ghostbusters 3 we will ever get.
And it was, until Ghostbusters: Afterlife was released.
@@jeremyriley1238 Afterlife felt more like an epilogue. A true GB3 film should’ve been set in the 90’s like the video game, they probably could’ve even got Rick Moranis to return before he officially retired
@@Bingo_the_Pug he retired effectively years ago to take care of his kids. Kind of un-retired lately
@jeremyriley1238 I definitely would say Afterlife is a Ghostbusters 3.
Like yes, it is the third installment of that universe.
Ghostbusters the video game is by far more of a Ghostbusters 3 than Afterlife is.
It literally continues from Ghostbusters 2.
To me, afterlife was more like a fourth movie than a third installment, really. I wish they did do that but that would probably confuse the majority of people that have sadly not played the game. It's also sadly. The reason it didn't do so well because the lack of marketing I bet
I'm glad they did remastered it though. Still should be canon it even properly explained about everything about shandor and the moods line, which probably has a connection between gozar and vigo I always knew there was a connection between them and that she helped vigo rise ine power@HeyJay2000
There's also another major issue that put the brakes on ghostbusters 3 and played a roll in Bill Murray rejecting anything to do with it. From my understanding him and Harold Ramis weren't on good terms after making the movie "groundhogs day." There was a lot of friction on set between them and they had a falling out and weren't on speaking terms up until Harold Ramis became ill and was close to passing away.
100% They were at odds after Groundhog Day for years unfortunately.
@@Bulletsandblockbusters Yes. That is strange, since Groundhog Day was a very good film!
I believe it was in Netflix's Ghostbusters episode of "The Movies That Made Us" where Ramis' daughter said Murray went to Chicago toward the end of Harold's life, stopped by a police station, asked if they could take him to see Harold (they hadn't spoken in so long, he didn't know where Ramis lived anymore), they did, and the two made up before Harold's passing. As a lifelong Ghostbusters fan, that story had me in tears.
I guess he really wanted to make Large than Life (1996) instead of a proper GB3.
Murray had a rep of being difficult to work with too.
the closest we'll ever get to the Ghostbusters 3 is the Ghostbusters Videogame, that had a script written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, and featured all of the ghostbusters since it was made before Harold's passing
I remember thinking that wasn't bad but don't remember much, have to see if I can find it back
I have a soft spot for Ghostbusters 2. It does have much too similar structure to the first one but I like that it brings in the river of slime, Vigo, elevated Louis' role, the Statue of Liberty scene, and just the overall message that kindness will triumph in the end.
I love it!
GB2 is my personal favorite.
I quite like Ghostbuster 2 as well. I do not think it is quite as good, as the first 1, but still quite good.
I loved 2 more than the original when I was a very young lad in the early 90s, and I still have a soft spot for it, but the original overtook its place in my heart by my early teens. I even went well over a decade without seeing 2 until my late-20s, and I somehow never recognized the same plot beats until then.
Consider what box office competition it had, it did surprisingly well. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade had just come out in the previous weeks, Star Trek: The Voyage Home had come out the week before. Then Ghostbusters, then the next week The Batman movie and Honey I shrunk the Kids, then Lethal Weapon 2 the week after.
I quite enjoyed Afterlife, but in my ideal world, Ghostbusters 3 would have been made in 1991 or 1992 or something, and Ghostbusters 4 would have been a reunion movie made around 2011/2012 with the original cast coming back for one last adventure (along the lines of Star Trek VI:The Undiscovered Country).
2016 and 2022 would have been next generation movies with a handover to a new crew carrying on the legacy.
We kind of got Ghostbusters 3, it’s also set in 1991, it’s a video game written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, it casts all four of the original Ghostbusters, Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz and William Atherton as Walter Peck.
@@dino-man5475 Yeah I have played the video game, and I did enjoy it, but I sort of felt like it was Ghostbusters 1.5 bringing back all the usual elements like Slimer, Stay Puft, and linking back to Gozer and Shandor (which Afterlife was also guilty of).
The game is the closest thing we’ll have to Ghostbusters 3, but I still dream of a parallel universe where there was a live action movie back in the early 90’s with a brand new villain and plot.
@@jasonorrissWell, at least we did get gorick. However, you spell his name. I just tell him that for sure. Cause it sounds cooler and he was definitely a cool villain. I would still love to see a team up with him and vigo and gozer Literally a sinister, six moment orchestrated and led by a god among gods that brings them together.
Dan Aykroyd should publish his Hellbent script.
It should be ghostbusters five fuck yes.
Afterlife film was fucking awesome and great for the third Ghostbusters movie
The fact the og cast is in that reboot is punch to the face
In all honesty, the fact that Ghostbusters Afterlife was able to reunite the original OG Ghostbusters, even for an appearance was a feat into itself. To be fair, Ghostbusters the video game with the original cast is as close to Ghostbusters 3 as we may as well get.
When I first heard about the all female Ghostbusters I was very excited about it. I thought it would be a cool new take on it and be different enough that people who loved the original wouldn't feel like it was stepping on any toes and it could be a whole new awesome thing. BUUUUUUUUUUUT the problem with it wasn't that it was four female characters, the problem was that it was horribly written and directed and was complete garbage. Truly disappointing.
Exactly. It was just a really bad movie.
This video essay conjured up a memory that before it went into production, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey had the working title of "Bill and Ted go to Hell". I don't know how many changes were made from the original draft from what we got (since there's at least one Hell sequence in the finished product), but it might make for an interesting essay if there's any information to mine about it.
I'll look into it
I thought that the third would have Ivo Shandor as the main antagonist as his existence was hinted at in the first movie when the Ghostbusters were arrested as well the Videogame was closest thing to a third movie until Afterlife came and we got J.K.Simmons as Ivo Shandor.
Do Ridley Scott’s I am Legend
In the original script, Ivo Shandor was supposed to be the original antagonist in the film, not Zuul. It was supposed to have been Paul Reubens as Ivo Shandor and it would have been that Shandor was posing as the owner of the Sedgewick Hotel who the Ghostbusters meet in the beginning (the "WE GOT ONE!" scenes) and orchestrated the whole downfall of the Ghostbusters via Walter "Dickless" Peck.
Ivo Shandor appears in Afterlife, and is immediately killed by Gozer
@@queencancerous5332Pretty sure he's still around because how can you possibly kill something that's already dead plus in the game. He was also a ghost. I won't suspected the reason gozer ripped him in half. Because she was still p***** of him, trying to overthrow her and then he acts like a coward and comes crawling back to her.
I guess I’m in the minority, but I loved Afterlife. Would definitely watch a sequel with Rudd
Plenty do! I thought it had potential but personally found it disappointing.
I liked it as well. 30 years since Ghostbusters 2, I think they did ok.
It was good. I loved it!
I absolutely love Ghostbusters 2. Also, the video game is phenomenal and Afterlife was really good. Especially considering it had to set up a whole new cast and it was focused on kids.
I agree, I don’t understand why people say it’s poor?
I don't like the kids idea tbh gives Dexter vibes
Ray Stanz's cameo in 'Casper' is canon btw, incase you didn't know. It was confirmed by the director in a interview. 👍
Hold up, so Casper is canon to Ghostbusters?
@@anomaly395 according to a Ghostbusters writer in an official interview, yes!
@@MosheMedia2000 Huh. And here I thought it was just a fun cameo lol.
The 2009 videogame is my Ghostbusters 3 even though we technically have a 3rd and 4th films now with Afterlife and Frozen Empire.
They should have just written Murray out in '99 and made the damn thing. He would have been missed, but we might have been better off.
I think Hellbent could have been an interesting films, not sure through if it would have been successful as it sounds much more like a horror film with the Ghostbusters in it than a Ghostbusters films. I will disagree with a couple things you said. Saying the Ghostbusters audience is mostly male isn't exactly true, it also has a large female component. The fact that they didn't support the film either shows no one wanted this film. With Afterlife, it is actually a pretty good show. I have never seen Stranger Things, it has 0 appeal to me despite growing up in the 80s but I thought tying Afterlife back to the original film like that was a good way to restart things. Considering they are making a sequel to it and not dropping it like thr 2016 film, it couldn't have been all bad.
"Hellbent" sounded like it potentially would've been a lotta fun. Since such a movie nowadays would be impossible, if I were Sony, I would make the story into a video game. It could be the official-unofficial midquel between Ghostbusters 2 & Afterlife.
No, no, no, no screw that. That should be the fifth movie, my friend. It's perfect way.Perfect hellbent Here we come.
But what was the original Ghostbusters 2 that Murray liked?
It went through a few versions with some radical differences like being set in Scotland for example. I’m not sure which is the one Murray liked. It may have been more of a case of the pitch he heard being better than the script he’d eventually read.
If they really wanted to make a third Ghostbusters movie they should have had just made Extreme Ghostbusters into a live-action movie
I just realized Bill Murray has still been in every ghostbusters movie. Even the 2016 one
The 2016 film issue wasn’t that the team was all female, it was that it was led by a one trick pony, that the press tour had actresses label anyone with genuine criticism as a ‘moms basement dwelling troll’ & that they waited until the VERY last second to release any footage
I felt for Jones & McKinnon as they weren’t bad in the film but they couldn’t save it
Jones was terrible in the movie. Kate McKinnon was the only one who felt like she belonged in the Ghostbusters world. That movie was awful.
The actors themselves were good, but the marketing and press releases were a terrible way to market a movie. The same was with netflixs Cowboy Bebop, they literally said that fans are stupid, so how did they expect people to feel?
I did like the idea of having Chris Hemsworth playing a guy who is nothing but eye candy for the ladies. Because that's what he is mostly made to be, and this seemed like a parody of that.
I always thought a Ghostbusters (3) verses Beetlejuice (2) would be a hell of a movie
Both franchises have been revived, so who knows?
I think I just saw it too late - maybe 20 years after it was released - but honestly I always found Beetlejuice vastly overrated.
@@MrEdwardmarlowe That is an opinion I will not accept 😞
@@brandonspain12345 Mrs Marlowe would agree with you.
I disagree, I went in to watch Afterlife knowing that I had played the video game and watched the original 2 films. Yes, it doesn't feature the original team until the end, but I like the fact that it doesn't force it on you that it HAS to be ghostbusters this, ghostbusters that. I liked the fact that it was Phoebe Spengler who found her grandfather's ghostbusters stuff in the hidden bunker too.
Glad you dug it. It seems many do which surprised me after making this video. It seems to have a strong following.
If you’re reading this , you HAVE to play the game. It’s THAT good
Sounds like an episode of real Ghostbusters where they go to a parallel dimension where ghosts bust humans in a hellish Manhattan.
I've said this before... if the girl ghost busters was a sequel, and didn't make every male character in the movie an idiot or evil... it could have worked. The fact that they didn't comprehend this boggles my mind
Every male character in the first movie besides The Ghostbusters is an idiot or evil
They could've had the original guys go missing and their daughters have to figure out what happened to them and rescue them.
I view Ghostbusters: The Video Game as the third official movie. I've watched an edited together version of the cut scenes/play through and found it to be significantly better than what we got in Answer the Call and Afterlife. I completely agree with your take on Answer the Call: know your audience and don't actively antagonize them. I don't mind the prospect of an all-female team, but the execution and finger pointing that went into that production took away any interest I might have had.
Afterlife was terrific, we watched two different films.
Afterlife was fun and different. It's not exactly what I expected it to be, but it was a good movie.
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@@NUKESDONTEXISTopinions aren't wrong nor right
It was pandering trash, it had the same problems The Force Awakens had.
@@NUKESDONTEXIST And i suppose you are right, but still wrong. Its called a opinion mate, look up the description.
Afterlife was awesome
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With Frozen Empire coming out next year that script sounds like it would be good for the third film in the new series.
Afterlife was really good, imo. Way, way better than expected. And I saw the original at the theater with my parents, when it came out. Had the game on my C64, too. 😊
I really don't think Afterlife is that bad honestly. I'll take that movie over Answer the Call which I just like to pretend doesn't exist. I would have liked to see a Ghostbusters 3 around 1999-2000. It's too bad that it didn't get off the ground.
Lots of people like afterlife so you’re not alone. I didn’t love it but to each their own! But it’s a million times better than answer the call.
This proves the point I made about "Afterthought" (aka: Afterlife) was nothing more than a bandaid movie in response to the major backlash of the 2016 movie. Both are incredibly bad movies. The video game was what we should have gotten as a proper CGI third Ghostbusters installment.
I’d like to see a comic book version of GB3 Hellbent
The animated series had an episode which must have existed in 1999 and must have been absorbed intentionally or unintentionally, by Akroid when writing this treatment 🤔 don’t recall the episode name, but in it the busters were transported to a ghost-themed parallel New York, called ‘Boo York’
Yeah that was probably lifted from his script.
@@Bulletsandblockbusters The Real Ghostbusters ended in 1991, so the cartoon writers couldn't have lifted anything from a 1999 script.
Out of all the possibilities they chose the WORST
So Ghostbusters 2 wasn't a failure. Its actually a classic movie
At the time back in 1989, it was a failure
I enjoyed every Ghostbuster movie. You cant hit a homerun every time at the plate. So some of the product will be better than others. I even enjoyed the female Ghostbuster movie I thought it was funny. Some things could have been tweaked story wise but it wasn't horrible as people say.
Certainly, it is a franchise that I am very devoted to. I love the original movie. I love Ghostbusters 2. I love the video game and I can see why the fans love to say it serves as a great stand-in for a “third movie” and in addition I love Afterlife. However, the Hellbent script sounds interesting and I would like to see it get more recognition. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this project.
So stranger things stole the gb3 idea
I dont have as much hate for the 2016 Ghostbusters. But the Hellbent premise really highlights the problems with modern franchise revivals. Hellbent wanted to grow and mix things up and variety was what everyone wanted. Now, its all about reverence, reference, and nostalgia trying to capture or retread the old rather than doing fresh and interesting new ideas. I wish I had played the Ghostbusters game
Tbh the 2016 was alright and most of the comedy was funny but I do blame the very first trailer that was bad and misleading when the movie finally came out
The first trailer was a complete dumpster fire. Jokes cut up and out of context, Patty looked like a clown and she ends up being the most reasonable and level headed one of the team, one of the jokes in the trailer that just seemed cringe and pandering got a genuine laugh outta me in theater. Movie had a lot of problems, including basically all of the 3rd act, but that first trailer doomed the whole thing.
Afterlife’s great, I can’t wait for the sequel!
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@@NUKESDONTEXIST from my point of view it is YOU who are WRONG. 😂😂
😂😂This ten year old prob loved the emoji movie too
Ghostbusters 2 is awesome. This fake hate is annoying.
I love it but also grew up with it so I’m biased.
The 2009 Ghostbusters Game
Actually DID Bring Back ALL
The Originals in Voice Form &
Used MANY GB3 Plot Elements!
So It's The TRUE 3rd Film, Whereas
#Afterlife is More Like Pt.4 &
Therefore: "Answer The Call" Pt.5
Answer the call is not part 4 😂😂 it’s not connected to the main franchise and is quite honestly a piss poor excuse of a ghostbusters movie. Disrespecting the originals and their characters.
I loved Ghostbusters 2 when I saw it in theaters, but it definitely is inferior. Now I’d like to know what the original Ghostbusters 2 that Murray was excited for would have been like!
Re-release "Ghostbusters The Video Game" as a realistic CGI movie and name it "Ghostbusters 3", "Ghostbusters 3: Hellbent", or just "Ghostbusters: Hellbent". There, problem solved. "Ghostbusters: Afterthought"... uh, I mean, "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" was absolutely terrible. It was a piece of shit, and nothing more than a bandaid to the (all female-cast) one. I didn't bother with the 2016 one and only saw Afterthought once, and that was it! No need to buy it, cause I have NO desire to EVER see that crap again!
GB2 is definitely under appreciated, but mostly cuz of Peter MacNicol, he stole it.
No, this is dead. It has been rewritten too many times and changed too many time. Either go back to the original and get Murray to direct it or co-direct with Ackroyd or don't waste your time or the fan's time.
Fun fact Ghostbusters (2016) is predicted in Ghostbusters II
You Know, a mid '90s 3rd Ghostbusters movie starring the "Bad Boys of SNL" ( Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, David Spade, and Chris Rock with Rob Schneider in a small role) would have been a good "Passing of the Torch" movie for the franchise.
Well we got afterlife which is an incredible movie and lived up to the original ❤❤❤❤
GB 2 got way too much hate. It was good in parts just a bit stupid in others. Compared to the other sequels its far superior. Bill Murray was really the only reason we never got a proper GB 3.
I love GB2, but that's also because I grew up with it. It definitely has its moments, but if I'm being objective I can see why it was a disappointment when it came out.
It was terrible 😅😂
THANK YOU for calling 'Afterlife' out for what it is. Everything you said about it in this piece is what I said. The fandom was so desperate for something--ANYTHING that wasn't 2016's 'Answer the Call,' they put nostalgia blinders on because 1) We finally see the old gang of Ray, Peter, Winston & Egon (postumously) reunited & 2) Because many saw Afterlife as a last attempt at truly reinvigorating the franchise.
I had a sense of that from the trailers & preview clips with the mini pufts, so even though I'm a die hard GB fan, I didn't see it theatrically. Eventually, when I did watch it, that third act confirmed every fear. It was cringy, eyeroll inducingly BAD.
Ghostbusters is one those films that even though it deals in the fantastic, it's still very grounded in reality. The most real aspect of everything being the passage of time. There was a window for a true 3rd film & we all saw it slip away thanks to Bill Murray. The End.
Yeah, it wasn't great. I think most people at least partially went to see Afterlife just to spite Paul Feig 😄.
I think it was a great pallet cleanser, but I'd hardly call it great. Definitely better than Frozen Empire though...
_GB1:_ Entrepreneurs
_GB2:_ Fat Cats
_GB3:_ Washed-Up Has-Beens
Afterlife was awesome! and Frozen Empire was good.
I always felt the videogame was Ghostbusters 3.
That 2016 movie was total garbage. I disagree with you about the new one. I think the new movie was fantastic. I looking forward to one more.
Most seem to love it which surprised me
I think Ghostbusters 3 should've began at The White House, similar to X-Men 2, where the staff witness poltergeist activity and the president encounters a ghost.
It's revealedthere are numerous amateur ghostbusters throughout the country. Some are good at catching ghosts; others are not.
The President requests the original Ghostbusters team- the real Ghostbusters- to come to the white House to solve the problem. The president explains that he was in Manhattan during the events of Ghostbusters 2 and was there when the fhostbusters brought the statue of liberty to life.
The 4 original ghostbusters are invited to the white House where they investigate.
I think a precise like that would've been good and had potential for some memorable comedy
I hated Gb ATC but I really enjoyed Afterlife. Been a fan since the first movie hit UK tv in Xmas 1987 - and have been very overly protective of the franchise. But I think that Afterlife was a great follow up. Appreciate it follows many of the same beats of the first movie but there is a ritual to the coming of Gozer so you couldn’t avoid the Keymaster/Gatekeeper vibe. Thing is you have to move the story onto a younger cast as so much has changed for the originals. So it was always going to feel like a coming of age movie in some way. The only comparison to `stranger things is Finn Wolfhard. If Trevor had been cast by anyone else this comparison wouldn’t be so prevalent. Great video though 👍🏻
The year Harold Ramis passed away was also the year Robin Williams passed away. I loved both of them, but I was upset with how little time they paid homage to Harold Ramis during the 2014 Academy Awards recap that year of actors that have passed away because Robin Williams got the majority of the tribute time, followed by Paul Walker. Both were great and deserving of the tributes they received but Harold barely got any and it was frustrating to see that, as Harold should have had more time then he received.
Definitely more time than Paul Walker
I still like Ghostbusters 2 better than the first. As a kid i enjoyed the kid friendy speed of the 2nd. As an adult i like the first but i still have a bigger place in my heart for 2
Ben Stiller would be an amazing ghostbuster
I always thought Steve Guttenberg would've been as well.
Can’t blame Murray for turning down the Manhattan/Hell script. Sounds horrible. No wonder he hemmed and hawed about doing a GB3 for years afterwards. However, the 2009 video game plot was pretty well done.
I tapped out at DT type character.
I'm still sad that the great Harold Ramis is no longer with us 😢
Rest in Peace, Harold 🙏💙
You had me until you bashed afterlife
It’s just my opinion. If you dug it that’s cool too!
Afterlife was GREAT and set the story for more movies in the franchise, that is the plan. I watched fans crying at the end of that movie, not sure why your opinion is worth anything here, look at the sales of Afterlife and then this critic might want to rethink his opinion. I think we now need to have critics of the critics, many opinions of movies these days are so far off that you really should just ignore them.
I enjoyed seeing the guys reunite at the end like everyone else but many, including myself, felt the rest of the film was weak and half baked. If you or others loved it I think that’s great and I’m not trying to dampen your enjoyment of it.
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@@Bulletsandblockbustersis kids that like it. They've seen like 5 movies total. They don't know good movies. You can stick anything in front of them and they love it
@@BulletsandblockbustersI agree. I went to see afterlife and it really didn't feel like a Ghostbusters movie. I wanted to see more of the OG Ghostbusters. The new characters aren't really interesting at all and honestly I couldn't care less about them. Ghostbusters to me is Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddmore, and Egon Spengler.
Agreed!
I thought the name "Manhellton" sounded stupid but I can totally hear Ray or Egon coming up with that name in the movie and it would make sense. If they can make a 50 foot Twinkie work, so can Manhellton.
Man, original few movies was the best. Everything else sucks. Well, except cartoons but that's another story. And the latest Ghostbusters movie is just... meh. It is not even Ghostbusters movie because, we don't even get the proper action until the very end of the movie. And honestly, I don't like it. It was just a waste of time. Because, you watch half of the movie a boring talking between the characters and only then they slowly starting to give you the ghostbusting action. And that action should have started long before the middle of the movie and the movie should end on a big bang, making everybody dropping their jaw. But nope. The writers for the movie completely missed the point of what Ghostbusters should have been. Thus, I don't even understand, how that Ghostbusters movie with the kids got successful. Cause it is boring right until the last part of the movie.
Ghostbusters 3 movie was temporary canceled But ultimately it got revived as they reworked Ghostbusters 3 into Ghostbusters AfterLife I'm so happy.They bought it back the third Ghostbusters film of the original saga And they have to introduce The family of one of the Ghostbusters members Ego Spengler.
I like parts of II but i can't pretend it isn't a kids movie effected by Real Ghostbusters.
I think GB 2016 caused the whole start of removing the dislike button. Which they shouldn't have done at all
It sounds like the "Man-Hell-ton" idea was worked into the animated series, or maybe it was vice versa? There was an episode very much like what you're describing where they visit "Boo York", a mirror image of New York completely inhabited by ghosts. I think it was called "Flipside"
So… THIS movie was going to be "Ghostbusters 3"-The OG! Right? Give me a REPLY if im RIGHT or not.
"Ghostbusters III-H3llbent"
If THIS movie WASNT canceled. "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" will be the FOURTH movie. Then "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" will be the FIFTH movie.
For me the first is the better of the saga, but also the second is very good.... We know that for years Murray surely don't wanted to do the third, and after the sad dead od Harold Ramis for me the question was closed. No original cast, no Igon, nevermore Ghostbusters movie. Instead the reboot, then Murray, who I don't know why, changes his mind and agrees to make two really poor sequels like 3 and 4. Personally I don't even consider the last two film like a real part of the original saga. I don't know how would been Hellbent, but surely better than the third. However, I still think that without Ramis the saga are finished.
What are your thoughts on the new Frozen Empire trailer?
Where were the jokes? Lol. How bout you?
@@Bulletsandblockbusters it was a teaser, not a full trailer. Were there a lot of jokes in the earliest trailers for GB1 and GB2?
That’s actually a very good point!
Guys, relax. We'll get a proper Ghostbusters III within the next 50 years once motion capture CGI and AI-voice-synthesizers are perfected. Hollywood will have no financial or moral decision not to make it.
I think they should’ve done a Ghostbusters film with this cast:
Adam Sandler as a Ghostbuster
Kevin James as a Ghostbuster
Bruce Campbell as a Ghostbuster
Ted Raimi as a Ghostbuster
Vince Vaughn as the new lawyer of the ghostbusters
Simon Pegg as the new receptionist
& Nick Frost as the new Mascot of the Ghostbusters brand, wearing a costume of the ghost from the logo, promoting Ghostbusters as a brand.
I personally can't stand what they did to ECTO-1 in Ghostbusters 2... What I don't get is why they changed the Ghostbusters logo, both on their uniforms and on ECTO-1, to have the ghost showing two fingers.
So , We could've gotten Ghostbusters 3 in hell and have Donald trump as the villain, Chris farley and Ben stiller as Ghostbusters , and Peter venkman as GOD but stupid bill murray rather be in that piece of crap reboot whith Melissa MCARTHY. He also rather be in 2 flippin garfield movies . WHY DOES LIFE HAVE TO SUCK .THEN WE ALSO GET THAT STUPID REHASH SHELL OF ITS FORMER SELF GHOSTBUSTERS AFTERLIFE .
Strange since Alec Baldwin loved Donald Trump back then. Sounds revisionist.
Farking stray mouse and this site NOT remembering the three paragraphs I just wrote!! GGRRR..........
I was unaware that there was a script with adult Oscar and ghost Peter. I had a similar situation in the GB3 fanfic I wrote. It must have been on the heels of Harold's death, as I included his passing in it. It starts out a couple years after GB2, with the disappearance of Peter and Dana on their way to set up a franchise team in NOLA.
In the present, Ray, Winston, and Janine were getting too old for this stuff, and are about to pass the torch to a new generation.
Adult Oscar would have been Seth Rogen. Kylie from XGB I think I had planned for Rosario?
A homeless man (Galifianakis) who had taken up residence in the alley behind the firehouse was humored by the team, unaware he was psychic, drawn to the Big Trap and was always talking to the ghosts inside. and Venkman.
I think I had planned to include Winston's nephew/niece, as well?
The Big Bad of the film would have been the Cult of Shandor, trying to carry out Ivo's masterplan of Hell on Earth.
They only stop the Cult with the help of the franchisees, played in cameos by the GH/GHI teams, among others.
Oscar and the team get closure on Peter and Dana in the end.
I think we dodged a bullet.I bet Ghostbusters 3: Hellbent would have been a terrible film. I Bet Ghostbusters 2016 and afterlife are way better films then what we would have got. I think a satanic Hellblazer style comedy would have killed the franchise.
To me Ghostbusters: Afterlife is Ghostbusters 3 even though the Ghostbusters video game is the closest well ever get to a Ghostbusters 3. To me the Paul Feig Ghostbusters reboot from 2016 is non cannon
So basically it’s any democrat run city.
😂😂😂
Too bad GB3 never materialized. The concept sounds really cool. Bill murray was being a dick at that point IMHO. And I kindda liked afterlife, even though it doesn't feel like a Ghostbusters film. The less we talk about the paul feig Ghostbusters, the better. That movie was just cringe-worthy.
There was nothing kid friendly about Ghostbusters 2. Ooze out of the tub faucet, child sacrifice to Vigo the Carpathian, and even Vigo himself. Incredibly creepy. I remember as a kid we begged my dad to go see it. He caved and took us. We tried to sneak out of the theater, but my dad was like ohhhh no.. you begged me to watch it, now you're going to sticking to it lol still won't watch it to this day. Also, it sucks.
I just sucks they couldn't play off the end of GB2 when Slimer became an ally when giving Louis a ride on the bus. A 3rd movie featuring Slimer as a GB ally and a situation that would have required Slimer's help would have made sense. You can't tell me that wouldn't have sold tickets, and Slimer action figures.
Actually, you CAN tell me, it just wouldn't make sense.
it's unbelievable how many great ideas and awesome cast options have been wasted for this franchise. In my opinion, the comedians from the early 2000s SNL would have been the best choice for a third movie, but also some from The Office cast would have been amazing, can you imagine someone like Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson and Will Ferrell together as Ghostbusters, with Aykroid and the others, all in the same movie? it would have been the best grossing movie of all times. The hell with Murray, they had an endless choice of good actors to replace him and it would have been just fine, at least we would have had a third movie when the brand was still relevant and we wouldn't have the crap we got nowadays, because honestly, the new Reitman reboots are as much irrelevant as the hideous Paul Feig reboot. I watched Afterlife on a plane a few years ago and I switched to another movie after 20 minutes, so much I was bored
Totaly agree on GB2016, but totaly dissagree on Afterlife, wich i realy like.
How did this not mention the Ghostbusters the video game??? It had all original cast voice acting, and the script created a story arc from 1,2, and concluded in the video game. You can't talk about What could have been in GB3 without at least mentioning the premise of that game.
I hope the game is still Canon. Because it's so good after life was awesome. Also better than the second movie. But I feel like that was more of a 4 film rather than a third installment, and as for Ghostbusters 5 I would really love to see the hell idea revisited it may have been too ambitious for that time, but I think now is the perfect idea to revisit that I'd also love to see Oscar return. Even though his actor is sadly dead, but there's a bunch of actors that have played.Older versions of kid actors that did not reprise their roles.So I don't see how it would be a bad immoral decision Like I would really love to see that movie.Honor him like the last two honored, herald and ivan.
I should note the script for this movie, GB Hellbent is floating around, co written by Aykroyd and Tom Davis. It’s awful. Like…really bad. The core idea is good but the movie itself is just awful. There’s a character in the script whose 12 years old and is head of the GB’s research team and he’s described has having a brain so big it deformed his cranium. I’m serious. The kid is a genius but…yikes. Not only that but the new team of GB’s are all interchangeable and are so arch. There’s not near enough character stuff and there’s waaay too much Ghostbusting and spectacle. It doesn’t read like a comedy. Aykroyd needs someone like Harold Ramis and Ivan Reitman to reign him in. He’s a good idea guy. But this script is awful
Oh, boy the second script sounds horrible. And yeah Hellbent is needlessly ambitious, much like the original script, set in the future.
First I love your channel. I have to disagree on some things. I think the Hell idea was not good, and I can see how this could alienate much of the fanbase. That said, the idea of God being Bill Murray is actually quote funny. Maybe if the film wasn’t set in hell but they glimpsed it - with glasses or something. I agree GB2 was a rehash (Star Wars Ep VII) but I don’t think you can stray too far. I liked GB Afterlife, as it does bring in new elements - like coming of age - but keep some familiar ideas. The concept of tying up Ivo Shandor and Gozer brings the story full circle and we have the torch passed on to a new generation - literally. My fear, however, is the sequel here….
Ghostbusters II is what killed the franchise. That movie was so lame that it makes the 2016 reboot and Afterlife look like masterpieces. Pink slime? Viggo the villain? Ugh. I'd rather watch the 2016 reboot or grab a pillow and try to watch Afterlife any day, instead. I'll never understand why people always bring up the representation of male characters as dumb being a huge issue in the reboot, but these same people have no problem with Thor being turned into a complete imbecile in the latest Thor movies.
I would like to say, Evolution was a good movie and I loved it. That is all. Also I didn't think it was anything like Ghostbusters.