SpaceBallz wrote:You know what I'd like to see? I've always pictured the beginning of one of the GB movies where one of those TV ghost hunting groups are filming a new episode somewhere. They put on an act where they think they heard something knocking on a door and a few blips on their EMF meter (this can be comedic where they are super excited about possibly getting an EVP on their voice recorder). Then an actual ghost is standing in a closet somewhere on camera and everybody including the camera crew are scared stupid and don't know what to do until the real GBs show up. I think it'd fit in well in today's society of modern standards on what a "haunting" is as opposed to the "real" thing.
I have two drafts of a ghostbusters 3 scripts and it includes this sort of scene. Infact the one opens with a scene like this. The other draft is a bit different in that nothing at all paranormal happens which is kinda the joke.
It’s a “Ghost Adventures” type show with a Zack Baggins like moron. On camera he’s acting all tough and in control. Of course they do the “do you feel that? Did you hear that” thing no Ghost chasing show would be complete without. We cut and we reveal it’s all fake and all the crew and cast know it and they are wrapping production and taking their gear down when all sudden a “did you hear that? Did you feel that” happens for real and Mr Baggins laughs it off in a “ok guys, the cameras are off, you can stop now”. Long story short All hell breaks loose & Zack ends up literally pissing his pants, he’s crying & screaming a very girly scream.
The other version doesn’t open the script but it’s our “catching up with Venkman scene” and he is now hosting a Ghost Adventures type show, not unlike his huckster type gig on “World of the Psychic”. He’s surrounded by sycophants and suck ups.
It’s one of those “live Halloween shows”. Peter Venkman & his crew are in some infamous abandoned mental asylum. They have night vision, thermal imaging, the works. All of a sudden one of the crew is claiming to be possessed and she’s putting on a hilariously bad Linda Blair type performance, Venkman does that “are you kidding me? What is this person doing? I’m not getting paid enough for this” look to the camera only bill Murray can do while also trying to play up the segment, he is a pro after all. The segment supposedly ends or cuts to commercial, all the lights are turned on(it looks scarier in the dark! And the night vision adds a nice effect for TV) and the possessed female comes right out of it and starts acting normal. Venkman starts flirting with her and hitting on her. She’s kinda into it. Suddenly we hear “ummm. We’re still live” by the director. Venkman doesn’t skip a beat and starts treating the female like she’s possessed again, he starts acting overboard like an exorcist preacher “Get out of her satan! I command thee!” The poor girl is caught like a deer in the headlights & doesn’t know what to do. Venkman yells “Where’s my holy water?” But the girl is a little ditzy and says “um I never agreed to get wet. That wasn’t in my contract! I said I’d spit out some pea soup!” Venkman: “did you hear that? She’s speaking in tongues! Satan leave his poor girl alone! In the name of the father and the…umm…(off camera someone whispers “Holy Ghost”) and, um, the Holy Ghost!” Venkman is now shaking the poor girl! It’s a pathetic scene but he won’t admit defeat. Finally, going to the nearby catering table, he throws a Bucket of Gatorade on her(“the holy Gatorade”). The girl, soaked in ice cold orange Gatorade, cameras rolling, punches Peter Venkman right in the face knocking him out cold. The camera feed mercifully cuts. Peters show is canceled the next day.