timeware wrote: ↑July 11th, 2022, 8:42 pm I'd rather have them playing with toys then hitting the bag of doobie snacks.
The set up should be Winston setting up a new team, and hopefully Phoebe has a company to run when she get's through college. I wouldn't complain if Fin and Lucky don't return but I'd like to see Phebe and Podcast contribute in some capacity. Grooberson isn't a make or break for me but he is one character I'd like to see return.
They can skip the romance stuff by already having Grooberson involved with Callie and trying to become some kind of parent at the same time. Imagine Grooberson becoming a ghostbusters, realizing how dangerous the job can get, and telling Phoebe she can't be a Ghostbuster until she's older. Then surprise, surprise she suits up and saves the day again. Lol.
I still think the best way into the world is through business.
I love the idea of friends going into business. My idea has always been 3 down on their luck friends go to a franchise expo in search of the next big thing. They pass franchise pavilion after franchise pavilion. All are far too expensive. McDonald’s, Burger King, Car Wash, Car Rental. They are about to give up and go home defeated. I think of the scene like the Jack & Beanstalk story where the guy goes into Town to buy a cow and instead comes home with seemingly worthless magic beans. Except in this case the magic beans is a weird little franchise with a cheap little display tucked in a dank corner of the Expo. “Ghostbusters”.
Here’s yet another sequence from my own GB3 script.
INT Day- Uptown Apartment-
Mike *glides* in the front doors confident, on cloud 9, his friends/co conspirators, Dean & Perry are on the couch, working thru financial statements and stacks of business proposals. A big bag of Doritos lays between them.
Mike “Alright guys. You can relax. As of 14:46 Eastern Standard Time, We are now the proud owners of a new franchise!”
Dean “Awesome! What’s our investment? Expected ROI? How long do we amortize costs? Do they supply the deep fryer? Oh oh. Will they tell us the secret 11 herbs and spices?”
Mike “It was 68,000. I don’t know what ROI or amortize mean. But get this. They have a pole! A pole!”
Dean(confused): “A Pole? You bought a stripper franchise? Like Hooters?”
Perry “Wow. Dean. I won’t have you besmirch the name of Hooters in my presence. Hooters is a fine eating and dining establishment. There are no strippers. Just girls,er, ladies, women with, well, um, “Hooters”.
Mike “it’s not Hooters!
Dean: “damn..”
Mike: “Ghostbusters”
Dean: “Who? What? That doesn’t sound like something I can eat. That’s not one of those eastern Shwarma joints is it?”
Perry: “Ghostbusters? Those guys from the 80s? Didn’t they get sued a bunch of times, arrested, fined, shutdown twice, and use portable nuclear reactors strapped on their backs?”
Mike(correcting) “Proton packs. It’s in their brochure!”
Dean: “brochure? Let me see that!” (Reads it over)
Dean: this brochure is from 1992! And the other half of it is just instructions on how to install a Pioneer car stereo in an ‘91 Oldsmobile. You were conned. Did you even read this? Quick, cancel the check!”
Mike: About that…see, the policy was very clear. “No Checks”. Look we all saw that…thing the other night. You read about those worker on the subway line that disappeared ! This could work!
Perry: You handed over our 68 thousand dollars to a random, nameless salesmen you don’t know who was selling a franchise that hasn’t existed since the 1980s!
Mike: Technically 1993. And he wasn’t nameless! He had a name. It’s there on the brochure. “Doctor” something.
They all lean in to look at the brochure. At the very bottom is the name and in unison all three say:
“Doctor Peter Venkman. No Refunds. All Sales are Final”
And we Smash cut to…
Anyways, I’ll spare you the rest.
Sorry I know my alt script bits don’t go over well but man…I think going into business is a tenet of ghostbusters. They need to be workers and doing it for the money. The money. Then as the case builds they become more attached but they shouldn’t be doing this because they really, really want to and are heroes. No. They are schlubby firefighters. They can’t wait to retire on a pension. Like Winston says “If there’s a steady paycheque in it, I’ll believe anything you say”. That’s ghostbusters! Not a family drama where we are suppose to weep at the end.
My two cents anyways.