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#68 - Ghostbusters (1984)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Origins of Ghostbusters

Dan Aykroyd actually took the credit as well as Harold Ramis. He wrote a serious more sci-fi version where Ghostbusters were kind of already existed in a future world and there were multiple franchises. Eddie Murphy got too big or something like that for the movie so they, they kind of changed that character. Bernie Hudson, that role was still in the script. And he came to set, assuming that he was going to have this big role. It's funny. Isn't it? Yeah. I almost thought that was where they would take it in the kind of even then the sequel that came out a few years back but maybe not.

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