Zack wrote:Thanks for the info! Definitely explains why Hardemayer getting sucked into the museum was cut(other than couldn't be finished). He was disposed off in the added scene and Lenny had the guys released. I guess it was supposed to be Louis and Sherm that see the sky going dark. Someone said that explains why the view is from where they would have been at Parkview rather than the mayors office.
You're welcome, Zack. Yeah, they saw it from Sherman's office in a draft. I didn't that about the POV. I just figured City Hall could see Central Park. Never did try to prove it.
M.Thunder wrote:I might be wrong about this (I'm sure there are those around here who can correct me if I am)... but I think when GB2 was pitched, it was pitched as an October 1989 release, probably because the darker themes would have gone well with Halloween. This would have provided several more months then GB1 had and given them more time for more re-shoots and complex special effects. Supposedly when Reitman, Ramis, Murray and Akyroyd agreed to all return for the sequel, THIS was what they agreed to.
d_osborn wrote: Do you remember where you read this? Any links? As far as I know, it was always going to be a summer release.
I think M. Thunder might be alluding to this mythic rumored first script called "The Seed". In general, it's accepted the first version was the one called "The Last of the Ghostbusters" where Dana is kidnapped to Scotland (like Ghost Smashers was the first version of the first movie). Then Harold Ramis came aboard and they came up with several new story ideas.
The first idea of the river of slime was introduced shortly after they started with the moral notion that negative human emotions have consequences. The idea carried over to the sense that the bad vibes can build up in big cities like New York City and Los Angeles. Eventually, Vigo was created as the prime motivator behind the slime.
The second idea entailed Peter Venkman and Dana Barrett getting married and having a child. The infant was possessed and suddenly had adult agility and focus. Ramis concluded it was too horrible an idea for a movie and the marriage angle was a creative dead end. Eventually, the second idea evolved into Dana being a divorced mother.
Then the two ideas merged into a GB2 draft and what we see on screen. This was all from Starlog #140 and Cinefex #40 page 5-6.
But to note on June 15, 1989, while appearing on "Later with Bob Costas," Ramis revealed two other ideas for the sequel. One had the Ghostbusters as very successful, based in a high rise building, and now a worldwide company called Ghostbusters Inc. (like what was in a draft of the first movie as an epilogue) and the second idea had the sequel picking up literally from the end of the first movie. Obviously these two got scrapped.
All I know is they aimed for July 4 then June 23 then June 16. For some reason Reitman wanted June 23rd, but in the middle of production, the crew learned "Batman" was slated to release on the 23rd. Reitman asked the studio for the 16th much to the rest of the crew's dismay. (Cinefex #40 page 25)