OK…my 2 cents folks. Personally, I'm getting tired of people in general trying to modernize things. Extreme Ghostbusters was a PC hunk of festering ectoplasm. Ghostbusters shouldnt have flight packs, they shouldn't be spitting out contemporary slang like “dawg!” or “phat!”, and they most certainly shouldn't be things like a major character's death involved. It's just NOT Ghostbusters. Now, I've read lots of fanfiction before… some of it was good for what it was, and some of it was soooo completely off base, it lost all ties to what Ghostbusters SHOULD be. That being said, I like Guard's script. He knows how to write, and tell a coherent story. As I've stressed before, mixing elements from the cartoon universe in with the movie universe can prove to be…dangerous. But then again, that's just my opinion. After finishing this script, I came to a few basic conclusions: 1) If fleshed out, it could make a cool indie-film…but not Hollywood worthy, unfortunately. 2) One thing that was VERY lacking was comedy. I only found a few jokes in the whole read…and that's a shame, considering we're supposed to be dealing with a comedy. 3)Refferences should be made to previous characters from the original films, at least to establish what happened to them. So anyway, in summation: A fun read, with some work needed. No big shock. Most scripts go through dozens of re-writes before they're finalized.
Hasta,
Sparky