Earlier in the week former Deadline editor-in-chief Nikki Finke dropped a scoop claiming that Max Landis (Chronicle) had been brought in to work on the script for the long-gestating Ghostbusters 3, only for Landis to immediately shoot the report down as false. However, he has now taken to Twitter to reveal what his pitch for Ghostbusters 3 might have been like…
“Haha a bunch of people asking what my Ghostbusters 3 pitch would’ve been. I never had a full one, just a skeleton I’ve goofed around with. My Ghostbusters 3 began in the 1920s with Ivo Shandor murdering a gluttonous associate to protect his cult after he has a moral objection. Shandor tells the overweight man that nothing can stop the coming of Gozer; first, the gate will open in 1984, then again twenty years later. The fat man, who now has all the details of Shandor’s plans, threatens to go to the police, and Shandor poisons him. It’s scary, but As Shandor escapes, we see that we’re in the Sedgewick Hotel, and that the guy we just saw die… …Is Slimer. Cue theme. Show title.”
Would you have liked to see Landis coming in to work on Ghostbusters 3, and what do you make of his idea for the opening?
Originally published June 20, 2014. Updated November 6, 2019.
