I’d love for them to open up independent book deals for “franchises” that opened across the world. My Ghostbusters: Des Moines novel is already written. Hey Reitman! Call me! 

I vaguely remember that and it wasn’t that great. There was another Empire, another Skywalker gone rogue (you knew he was a badass because he wore Vader’s pants), and a lot of imagery recycled from the movies. IIRC it was one of those series cut short by the Disney sale.

IIRC Weaver has said that she thinks Venkman is Oliver’s dad, so there’s that. (I guess the 1989 timeframe is all wrong for him to be the possessed Louis’ kid.)

“I would love to see a show set decades or centuries after the sequel trilogy, with entirely different characters and factions, but I don’t think anyone has the will for it yet.”

Actually, having rewatched the movie last month, that implication is not really there. I was sure I remembered of Dana telling to Oscar “That’s your dad” in reference to Venkman, but nope, turns out I had completly imagined that. So it seems that Oscar being Venkman's kid is something people just assumed, because…

But Green Slime is scary!

“Paul Feig did the heavy lifting of broadening the concept of what a Ghostbusters movie could be.”

Um. Ok, yeah. Let’s go with that

I still remember the episode where a Steven King proxy wrote into existence Hellraiser cenobite creatures who kidnapped normal people and converted them into monsters.

I was 16 for GB1, and my memories are of a charismatic and charming set of comedy-ensemble leads that went for a grounded performance, hitched to the quirky side-couple pairing of Moranis and Weaver. Gozer and Zuul were creditable threats, there were some fun effects and a catchy song, and then you topped the whole…

“Making a Ghostbusters sequel is hard!!”

It really undercuts the notion of a bigger universe when all you can do is bring back Gozer, Ivo Shandor, the Terror Dogs, etc.

I’m fascinated by the concept that Ghostbusters outside of tone and characters is basically “people can trap supernatural things that exist” and there’s an extremely popular fan perception that you can’t do anything else with that premise and it’s exhausted.

“One thing I wanted to do is set the table for Ghostbusters as a franchise to have all kinds of movies,” he said.

Without having heard or seen anything that might have been leaked (I have no idea), I’m calling that Egon comes back as a ghost (probably not actually seen) to save the day. That seems like the most logical continuity line and seems to be vaguely hinted at in the trailers.

Of course the funny thing about that is I never wanted a bubble bath again after that movie since it was the pink Avon stuff in my house.

I remember when the second movie came out, and they were talking about how they had to change the slime color to make it more friendly to children. BECAUSE GREEN SLIME WAS TOO SCARY! 

Ghostbusters was a passion project, especially for Aykroyd. He and his family have deep paranormal/occult/whatever ties and it’s evident in the movie. He sterilized it and made it mass appealing but otherwise it touches on some of his passion.

I hope the influence he got from Paul Feig was more of the how NOT to make a Ghostbusters film variety...