Janine would be a more likely candiate. But the scene still needs to be shortened significantly. Thanks for the thoughts!

What are your personal ideas for GB III? I'm really interested in hearing a completely different approach. I promise to not steal any of your ideas…from one filmmaker to another. I just think it's fascinating how an idea for the same franchise can go in complete different directions.

Well it would take place in present day, Ghostbusters is now a huge business, with stakes in every medium(movies, tv, comics, etc..)They've branched out, and are making money off their name a la Pokemon, sort of. They do everything except actual Ghostbusting. All their Ghostbuster franchise offices have closed, which would mean after their initial success several Ghostbusting squads opened across the country, and have all retired. But now in present day a new Ghostbusting, Spook-Catchers business has opened with the help of an eccentric media-tycoon, with a hip new squad busting ghosts via their reality t.v. show, investors in the original Ghostbusters company are worried, so Peter Venkman, CEO assures them all is well. And runs off to get help from Ray and Egon, corporate advisors and heads of the science department, using their ghost-technology to better society. This is where the movie can get split into two tangents, meaning two different scripts within itself:1.)Being that the original team reunite to save their company(the more fan-based idea of course, and the least possible). But it would be cool, unfortunately not as commercial.2.)The second possibility is what would be most likely, is the old Ghostbuster hire a rag-tag group to rival the new one at the competition company. Here we would introduce new characters, one being a parapsychologist with a fear of ghosts, already under the employ of the Ghostbusters as a haunted house researcher(He works with real estate agents to study supposed haunted houses and give them the Ghostbusters Seal of Approval if they are not, making the house a better sell.) This character would lead the new group, the other members would be his slacker best friend, and some other goof ball character they hang out with, like say a janitor they know or something like that. And the movie kinda just flows like that, and the love interest would be a female Ghostbuster on the rival team. That's the basic premise, to which hilarity would ensue.

Wow. You were right. Completely different. I like it…the ideas about the Ghostbusters franchise branching out, and the rival team are terrific. I hope you plan on fleshing it out and writing a full script. I'd be a shame to let such a great idea go to waste.

It would be fun to write, of course I'd only write it if I knew I could get it made with the studio and actors in tow. I don't want to write some fantasy script, not that I discourage it, I just prefer not to. Also it would really help with how I would write it, like if I knew it would get made with Bill Murray and the gang. Scenes with them would be written with little to no dialogue, just direction, and brief paragraphs describing what it is they are to be talking about, so they could make up their own lines, it's what they would probably do anyway, it's not like it's Shakespearean prose.

Improv based script. Like a cross between Marx Brothers anarchy and Curb Your Enthusiam. I like it a lot. A very creative approach.

It's really the only way to do it. In the first movie we just accept the technology and the premise because we liked the characters, we just wanted to have a good time, and that's what Ghostbusters is about. And instead of making Ghostbusters 2, they could've put the main guys as cops, or doctors, or something else, or even a premise farther-fetched than Ghostbusters, and that would've been cool. You know, like Stripes would've been the first one, then Ghostbusters, and so on and so forth. Kind of like today with Ben Stiller and the Wilson Brothers, and Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn. Starting with Old School, Starskys & Hutch, Dogdeball, and this summer they have one called The Wedding Crashers, it's all very similiar, comedy wise.

venkman69
It's really the only way to do it.

Oh, I don't know about that…there is no only way to do anything.

I mean that in the sense of keeping the spirit of the original films, not to put down yours and others ideas from being different, but you as well as I know that those ideas would be very different from the original films, not so much in context, but definitely in tone.

Mallory-Mike
Hey, dish it out. I can take it.

Heheheh, no I have no problems with Egon/Janine, I was more thinking of Salina Duran…who doesn't seem to be around *Looks shifty*

venkman69
But now in present day a new Ghostbusting, Spook-Catchers business has opened with the help of an eccentric media-tycoon, with a hip new squad busting ghosts via their reality t.v. show

That is so similar to what happened in an RGB annual of mine…I'l turf it out… one second please…

*Shuffles around upstairs trying to find annual*

Marvel's The Real Ghostbusters 1989 Annual
Reluctantly Vance agreed, and during a commercial break, the Spectre Rejectors were called. They arrived minutes later - two men dressed in bright red outfits, with large visored helmets on their heads. They pulled a long cylinder on wheels behind them, which had two flexible pipes attached at one end.

Though it says they were dressed in red, it shows them in green… And the talk-show host bit? Well, the talk show is hosted by Johnny Vance, who's just seen himself and the Spectre Rejectors get humiliated by Slimer. As Slimer overhears:

Marvel's The Real Ghostbusters 1989 Annual
"It's not all you idiot!“ Vance roared. ”The whole country saw you fail, live on TV. They saw some weird, big-mouthed ghould make complete fools of you - and me! Don't you realise I've put my life's savings into your organisation? That's why I engineered that show last night to discredit the Ghostbusters. With them out of the wat we'd have cornered the spook-shooting market - but you've blown it now!"

I really like the script, keep up the good work and i'll keep reading it.