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Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:29 am
I KNEW I remembered that scene from somewhere!
FWIW, here is my abstract of a script treatment/pitch for the upcoming film "Ghostbusters 3":
When: 2010Where: Hollywood, CaliforniaWho: Young hollywood turk, played by Jimmy Fallon, is a down-on-his-luck aspiring Producer. What: Unable to bounce back from his fluke debut hit "The Four Amigos of the Apocalypse", (starring Martin Short, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and a John Candy rendered entirely in CGI) he needs a big score to save his career. Plunging through the film archives at Columbia/Tri-Star, he is "visited" by none other than Slimer, repleat in wayfarer sunglasses and a hawaiian shirt. In recounting the story of his otherworldly encounter, he is mocked at the tennis club where he is having lunch with his estranged daughter and thrown out (much to the embarasment of his daughter, who calls him a loser and says "Why don't you call the Ghostbusters, then?") Ghostbusters? *Research montage* GHOSTBUSTERS! Cut to Venkman, Spengler, Stanz, and Zedemore, each hard at work. Venkman is selling used cars, Stanz is working for Best Buy, Spengler is an exterminator, and Zedemore is a bible-thumping revival preacher. Each get a phone call -- all say variations on "Listen, that was a long time ago. I was a different person then. We saved the city...twice. Can't you just leave me alone?" Except Venkman who says..."Movie, huh? About the Ghostbusters? *pause* I need a big advance up front and a high percentage of the back-end." Pan out to him sitting on a curb in a searsucker suit with a dilapidated Ford Festiva behind him. Cut to Fallon getting off an airplane at LaGuardia. *"Track-em-down" montage* Venkman is his first stop. Together they round up the rest. It is cut-for-cut the Blues Brothers "we're getting the band back together" progression. Off to Hollywood. They meet the people cast to play them in the movie. They hate them all. Pretentious jerks, all former SNL members -- The casting is all wonky -- (e.g. Tina Fey as a nerdy-hot Spengler). Fred Armisan pays Louis Tully and the Tully character has evolved into a spiritual mentor and fight instructor to the group, (like Splinter from TMNT) whose alter-ego is a CPA. Ray Stanz insists on being the technical coordinator as well, and (because he's bat-**** crazy from working at Best Buy) he re-designs the Gateway to the spirit world a little bit TOO well. During technical rehersal, and with a tiny bit of unanticipated "help" from Slimer, the gateway opens again and Gozer (albeit a much less powerful one due to being summoned during its "sleep" period) returns to wreak havoc on the set. Once again, the Ghostbusters must suit up to save the city from destruction at the hands of etherial forces! In the end, they banish Gozer, accidentally get the whole climax on film using HD cameras, and save an orphanage from the evil clutches of Arnold Swarzenegger, who makes a guest appearance as a possessed actor "The Governator". The movie wins an Academy Award, Fallon wins the respect of his daughter, and the Ghostbusters win their dignity. At least until after the closing credits of the movie-within-a-movie, where we see a teaser for "Ghostbusters: The Musical".