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Fixing Ghostbusters 2
Mar. 2nd, 2012 01:14 pmOkay, whatever your opinion of Ghostbusters 2 is (from "crap" to "ehhhh"), we can agree that the premise of the Ghostbusters suddenly being disgraced bums is bullshit. Even for a comedy, everyone deciding that the famed ghost-battlers battling a giant ghost must be fake is flimsy (so is Sigourney Weaver breaking up with Bill Murray just long enough to have a child by another man, and take up the violin, and cripes, why not just come up with a whole new love interest while you're at it?.
So, to revise: Instead of losing everything, the Ghostbusters become world-famous, rich, and powerful. Which is just as bad, as they all drift apart to do their own things. Egon runs the Large Hadron Collider, Venkman becomes a monocle-wearing plutocrat, so on and so on. Perhaps they were so good at Ghostbusting for a while there that pretty much all the "real" ghosts have been busted, so now they just pay college kids to check out the inevitably-bogus sightings for them. Like a local pizzeria turning into a franchise, they're just living off the recipes now.
Then someone, maybe a new character, maybe one of the original four, maybe even Louis, figures out there's a reason all the spirits are lying low. Instead of the hyperactive ghosts in Part 1, this time the ghosts are trying to lull everyone into a false sense of security. And it would take something powerful to order them all around...
So you could have a lot of fun "getting the band back together" scenes, reintroduce the characters living out their dreams (I repeat: Bill Murray in a monocle), start things off with a lot more energy than them having to work their way up from the bottom again.
So, to revise: Instead of losing everything, the Ghostbusters become world-famous, rich, and powerful. Which is just as bad, as they all drift apart to do their own things. Egon runs the Large Hadron Collider, Venkman becomes a monocle-wearing plutocrat, so on and so on. Perhaps they were so good at Ghostbusting for a while there that pretty much all the "real" ghosts have been busted, so now they just pay college kids to check out the inevitably-bogus sightings for them. Like a local pizzeria turning into a franchise, they're just living off the recipes now.
Then someone, maybe a new character, maybe one of the original four, maybe even Louis, figures out there's a reason all the spirits are lying low. Instead of the hyperactive ghosts in Part 1, this time the ghosts are trying to lull everyone into a false sense of security. And it would take something powerful to order them all around...
So you could have a lot of fun "getting the band back together" scenes, reintroduce the characters living out their dreams (I repeat: Bill Murray in a monocle), start things off with a lot more energy than them having to work their way up from the bottom again.
