In retrospect, it seems almost impossible to duplicate.
But that doesnt mean there was a lack of trying.
What would it have been like if Ayrkoyd got his covetedGhostbusters IIIoff the ground in the 1990s?
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What Fresh Ghostbusters Hell Was This?
How the Ghostbusters end up there begins promising enough.
Now she appears in the employees doorway in silhouette.
The only thing lighting her is the fire from the cigarette she bums off his desk.
Ahhh, thats good, she purrs.
Now, I want to go home.
Theres no more room in Hell.
Caskets are landing around them, splitting apart with the corpses walking out and heading for the road.
Hes loud, often cowardly despite ghost-chaser being his profession, and seemingly ill-suited for the job.
He has it because hes revealed to be Rays nephew.
the full-grown descendant demands when Frank inquires about grandma in his front door.
She passed away three days ago!
Yeah, thats the one, Farley would have garbled.
It seems though sir as if shes passed back in and she wants to come home… Congratulations.
Luckily, they have technology ready to do exactly that!
Indeed, it seems the intervening years betweenGhostbusters IIand this film, the Ghostbusters operation has gotten bigger.
He has an entire fleet of Ectomobiles to oversee across the five boroughs.
Its a slow realization because when they first phase, Wyances secret lab looks exactly the same.
Whats going on in the city today?
one gridlocked cabbie moans.
It must be hell in there.
Surely a finished film wouldve made some cracks about the irony of Heaven actually being in New Jersey.
So to its credit,Ghostbusters IIIin its earliest inception would have inverted the concept.
So on that level, it deserves credit for taking a risk.
However, even in this skeletal form, it left a lot to be desired.
Ray and Egon, meanwhile, come off as straight men.
In other words, it sorely missed Murrays raised eyebrow and acerbic cynicism about the whole thing.
It also seemed to rely too heavily on its one joke about New York being a hellhole.
… Alas, though, well never know for sure.
Ten months after Aykroyd turned in this detailed outline, Farley died of a drug overdose in December 1997.
Perhaps Murray could have been lured back.
If so, could he and a still-living Farley turn this trip to hell into comedy heaven?
Or perhapsGhostbustersremains lightning that was bottled in 1984, and in a vintage that can never be duplicated.
