Ghostbusters: The Seed [1] is an unused first script that was going to be Ghostbusters II much in the way Ghost Smashers was the unused first script that led to Ghostbusters. The first script was written solely by Dan Aykroyd and completed in September 1986.[2]
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Taken from Starlog #111[]
In 1986, there already were rumors Dan Aykroyd was working on a script in between his other projects. In Starlog Magazine #111, J. Michael Straczynski was asked if it would affect The Real Ghostbusters, "Producers of the animated series are also undaunted by "word on the street" that Aykroyd, between his other projects, is working on a script for "Ghostbusters II". "If there is a sequel, we have no problem with it", Straczynski maintains."[3]
Taken from Cinefex Magazine #40[]
"For the sequel, Dan Aykroyd once again wrote the initial script--a story in which Dana was kidnapped and taken to Scotland where she discovered a fairy ring and civilization underground. "My first draft was really too far out," Aykroyd reflected. "It was probably too inaccessible, though I thought at the time I wrote it that it was the direction we should go in. I wanted to leave New York City behind because I thought we had done that. But New York is really the greatest arena for our kind of ghost story, and staying in the city gave continuity to the second film. One idea that did stay in our script was the notion of having things occur underground. We went skyward in the first film--up to the top of a skyscraper--so I thought for the second one it would be nice to see the underbelly of the city. But my original concept for going underground was different. It involved a pneumatic tube two thousand miles long that they traveled in for three days. It was like a primitive mail chute."[4]
Starlog Magazine #140[]
The reason for the nickname "The Last of the Ghostbusters" was Bill Murray that said in Starlog Magazine #140: "It's not going to be called Ghostbusters II. We'll burn in hell if we call it Ghostbusters II. I've suggested The Last of the Ghostbusters, to make sure there won't be anything like a Ghostbusters III."[5]
Fan Fest 2019[]
A Banshee-like entity from legend would have been encountered.[6]
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- ↑ Ghostbusters Fans 12/15/09 post in "Murray's Bait and Switch"
- ↑ Greene, James, Jr., (2022). A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever, p. 101. Lyons Press, Essex, CT USA, ISBN 9781493048243. Line reads: "Dan Aykroyd completed the first Ghostbusters II script by himself in September 1986."
- ↑ Lowry, Brian (1986). "Return of The Real Ghostbusters" Starlog #111 (October 1986), page 11 and 69. Starlog Group, Inc, USA. Line reads: "Producers of the animated series are also undaunted by "word on the street" that Aykroyd, between his other projects, is working on a script for "Ghostbusters II". "If there is a sequel, we have no problem with it", Straczynski maintains."
- ↑ Cinefex Magazine #40 page 3 (GBFans.com)
- ↑ Starlog Magazine #140 (Spook Central)
- ↑ "Dan Aykroyd interview with Bill Murphy re John Belushi afterlife communication plus cryptids & UFOs" (Ghostbusters Fan Fest 2019) 13:07-13:14 6/12/2019 psiResearch YouTube Dan Aykroyd says: "And meet a kind of banshee-like entity that comes from legend that would be quite frightening."