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Product Description The essential guide to Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II! Exploring everything from the pioneering special effects to the set design and the unforgettable soundtrack. This authorized book tells the exhaustive behind-the-scenes story of how Dan Aykroyd's original concept evolved into a movie phenomenon. The perfect gift for the Ghostbusters fan in your life! The guide is packed with hundreds of fascinating production photos, concept art and rare behind-the-scenes images, while new interviews with the cast and crew, including Dan Aykroyd, Ivan Reitman, Annie Potts, Richard Edlund and many more, reveal how they overcame numerous challenges to create one of the best-loved movie franchises of the 1980s. Review From the Inside Flap This exhaustive guide to the 1984 classic and its much-loved 1989 sequel tells the story of how Ghostbusters evolved from a dark tale about interdimensional spook exterminators to one of the great film franchises of all time. Key cast and crew, including Dan Aykroyd, Ivan Reitman, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and William Atherton, look back on the thrills and challenges of working on the movies, while the talented team of effects artists at Boss Film Studios and ILM reveal how ghosts and ghouls, such as Slimer, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and the Scoleri brothers, were realized. The book also includes dazzling concept art from Thom Enriquez, Henry Mayo, Ron Croci, and others, which reveals early iterations of some of Ghostbusters’ famous designs. About the Author Matt McAllister is the editor of Ghostbusters: Build the Ecto-1 magazine, which delves behind the scenes of the Ghostbusters movies. He has written for entertainment magazines including Star Wars Insider, Dreamwatch, The Dark Side, Delirium, Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, MyM, and Torchwood: The Official Magazine, and is the former editor of Marvel Fact Files and Indiana Jones: The Official Magazine. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. FOREWORD BY IVAN REITMAN Thirty-five years ago, no one had seen anything quite like Ghostbusters before. A movie populated with hilarious but charming heroes and genuinely scary ghosts. A movie that made you laugh one minute and scream the next. A big-budget comedy with elaborate special effects. This wasn’t your typical summer blockbuster. Despite the unconventional concept, we all believed we were onto something special. I felt it when I first read Dan Aykroyd’s original story treatment back in ’83. Dan had come up with the wild futuristic concept of interdimensional ghost-hunters that included wonderful ideas like the Ectomobile, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and the apparition who would later become known as Slimer. I suggested refashioning it into a contemporary ‘going into business’ story set in New York City, and we brought in the brilliant, much-missed Harold Ramis to co- write the script and play Egon. Of course, it wouldn’t have been the same movie without Bill Murray. By this point I’d already worked with Bill on Meatballs and Stripes and knew what a joy it was to watch him in action. His Peter Venkman is one of cinema’s great, multi-layered comic characters. Many other amazing actors were crucial to the film’s success too. We were fortunate to have Ernie Hudson as Winston, who acted as kind of an explanatory voice for the audience. Joined by the wonderful Sigourney Weaver as Dana, the remarkable Rick Moranis as Louis, Annie Potts as Janine, Bill Atherton as Walter Peck... a director could not have asked for a more perfect cast. The other characters in the movie that we needed to get right were the ghosts and ghouls. Richard Edlund and his talented team of artists at Boss Film Studios brought Slimer, Stay Puft, the Terror Dogs and all the other creatures to life with such imagination and technical expertise. The comedy and the special effects worked amazingly well together – and thankfully audiences thought so too! This book contain
