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[retro music playing]
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-[narrator] This man, named...
-Dan Aykroyd.
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[narrator]
...has the absolute honor of stating...
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I wrote Ghostbusters
just because it's the family business.
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-[all] Oh!
-[narrator] Ghostbusters.
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This slime-covered,
stream-crossing comedy...
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The concept was kind of a brand new idea.
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[narrator]
...blew the roof off the box office
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and unleashed a supernatural,
special-effects extravaganza.
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Make him look like Belushi.
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[narrator] But it wasn't a walk
in the park. It was an epic battle
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-against the clock...
-[clock ticking]
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We had only ten months to do this project.
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[narrator]
...and a battle against the studio.
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-Nobody wanted me to do it.
-Why'd we waste our money on this?
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[narrator] This slapped-together,
ghostbusting mega-hit
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was written for stars
at the top of their fame.
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[Dan]
It was me, John Belushi and Eddie Murphy
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were supposed to be
the original Ghostbusters.
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[narrator]
As crew cracked under pressure...
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We met him in the parking lot,
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-with a samurai sword.
-What?
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[narrator] ...with an unreliable cast.
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Nobody knew where Billy was--
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They were stoned a lot of the time.
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[narrator]
This is the story of how comedy legends
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-became the Keymasters of history...
-I am the Keymaster.
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-[narrator] ...who unlocked a story...
-Let's ignore the problems,
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-let's just keep going.
-[narrator] ...and a song...
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Messenger's at the door.
"I got no lyric idea."
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[narrator] ...unlike anything
this world had ever known.
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[man] My gosh. That's it.
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♪ Who you gonna call? ♪
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Ghostbreakers.
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[opening music playing]
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[narrator]
These are the movies that made us.
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-This story of...
-Ghostbusters!
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[narrator] ...begins when three recently
unemployed New York City scientists
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start a paranormal
investigation and elimination service.
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-Anybody see a ghost?
-[narrator] As business booms,
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they set up shop
in an abandoned firehouse.
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-Wow!
-[narrator] And hire extra staff...
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Ghostbusters. What do you want?
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[narrator] ...to help tackle
the surge in paranormal activity.
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[roars]
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But when a supernatural gateway
is unlocked...
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they face a terrifying,
potentially delicious enemy
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in order to save the city
from certain destruction.
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I love this town!
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[narrator]
Well, New York City in the '80s...
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What's not to love?
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[honks]
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Clearly the world's most exciting city.
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Where pop culture bursts into life
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amid a crime-fueled, money-hungry,
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coke-guzzling, hot-dog-eating haven.
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Not only that...
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[Dan] There was a big, popular movement
in spiritualism.
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It was all started by the Fox sisters.
They were very famous.
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[narrator]
The Fox sisters? What, these girls?
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[clicks]
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Oh, sorry.
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Wrong '80s.
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[tape whirrs]
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New York in the 1880s.
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-Same as before, minus the hot dogs.
-[horse whinnies]
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And although they were mediums,
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the Fox sisters were huge.
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Worldwide, they were very famous.
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They could hear spirits and voices
speaking from the other side.
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[narrator] Well, on the other side...
of the American border,
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closer to the Canadian prairies
than the Ethereal plane,
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Dan Aykroyd's interest in the occult
goes back generations.
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[Dan] My great-grandfather had seances
in the old farmhouse,
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and he wrote journals
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where he would talk about
the people that had come through town,
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the levitators, the telepaths.
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[narrator] Dan's father even wrote
the comprehensive...
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[Dan] A History of Ghosts.
It's about trance mediumship.
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[spooky music]
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[narrator] So, it's no surprise that
Dan himself thinks of ghostly matters.
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It's to be believed.
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There is something there.
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[narrator]
And when it came to Dan's comedy chops,
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well, there was something there too.
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Witches, warlocks, conjurers,
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sorcerers, black magicians,
white magicians...
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Are you having trouble mixing your potions
in time for the winter solstice?
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[narrator] By the '70s, Dan Aykroyd left
his supernatural upbringing behind him.
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On his way to super stardom,
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joining Second City in Chicago
and Saturday Night Live in 1975.
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His brilliance was conceptual.
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Here's the "Coneheads" guy,
the Blues Brothers guy...
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and the "Czechoslovakian Brothers" guy.
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Two wild and crazy guys...
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All these really big ideas.
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[narrator]
But Dan's biggest idea was yet to come.
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And he'd find it in, for Dan Aykroyd,
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a very unsurprising place.
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I had the American Society
for Psychical Research journals,
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-lying all over the house.
-[narrator] Of course he did.
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I just read this article
on quantum physics and parapsychology
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and thought, "Wouldn't it be great to use
all of the research that's being done,
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and do an old style Abbott-Costello,
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Bowery Boys, Bob Hope, ghost movie?"
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Ghostbreakers, Incorporated.
You make em, we shake 'em.
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Bob Hope speaking.
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[chuckles]
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And by virtue of my family's interest
in the paranormal,
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I wrote Ghostbusters,
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just because it's the family business.
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[narrator] And, like a family business,
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Dan recruited his brother...
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Well, fellow Blues Brother, John Belushi.
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It was really meant as a two-hander.
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They were already working as a team
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in The Blues Brothers,
and he was looking for some other thing.
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[narrator] Belushi and Aykroyd
were Saturday Night Live legends.
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And since the late '70s,
they'd already made four movies together.
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But he was a big star at the time
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and we could have gotten the movie made
on his back easily.
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[narrator] But, like the movie,
the original Ghostbusters were a trio.
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And that third Ghostbuster...
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I wrote it for Eddie Murphy.
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I don't want to be drafted.
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[audience cheers]
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If I get drafted, who's going to be
the token black on Saturday Night Live?
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It was me, John Belushi,
and Eddie Murphy.
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Uh, we were the original-- supposed to be
the original Ghostbusters.
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[Dan's voice echoing] Ghostbusters,
Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters...
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The morning that John died,
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I was-- I was typing a line out for him.
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And, uh, I-- I got the call that...
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that he had-- [stuttering] had gone.
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So...
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uh...
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even though he wasn't there anymore,
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-I finished the movie.
-[narrator] With his best friend now gone,
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Dan would have to find another
worthy star for his ghostbusting trio,
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that is, of course, assuming anyone
wanted to make it.
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And so, I handed it to my agent
at the time, Mike Ovitz at CAA.
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-Mike was very excited.
-[narrator] And why wouldn't he be?
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Mike Ovitz had a lot of talent
on his books,
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including another Canadian,
who he thought
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would be the right man
to direct the movie.
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That would be this one:
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Ivan Reitman.
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I had got sort of a reputation
of being tough at that time.
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[narrator]
And this self-confessed Ivan the Terrible
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began his directing career
with a self-funded movie
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starring fellow Canadian Eugene Levy.
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And we sort of wrangled
nine million dollars.... Nine million?
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What am I talking about?
Nine thousand dollars.
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[crashes]
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See how I've changed?
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That was the budget of Cannibal Girls.
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[film narrator] They're young...
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beautiful...
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and very, very sexy.
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Cannibal Girls.
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That was really the beginning of my, um,
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professional comedy career.
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[narrator] On Ivan's long journey
from Canada to Hollywood,
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he produced Animal House,
starring John Belushi,
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directed Meatballs with Bill Murray,
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then directed and produced Stripes,
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again with Bill Murray
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and, this time, with Harold Ramis.
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It turned out to be a terrific success.
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Listen, if I get killed,
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my blood is on your hands.
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Just don't get it on my shoes,
okay? Hello?
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I was working with Ivan Reitman,
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and we were looking
for a project after Stripes.
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-[narrator] So, when Mike Ovitz said...
-[Dan] "Give Ghostbusters to Ivan."
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I knew Ivan from the '70s in Toronto.
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To me that was the logical choice.
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I said, "Absolutely, I hope he likes it."
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[narrator] And did he?
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The story is way too outlandish.
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Outer space...
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sci-fi...
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monsters floating around in spaceships.
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It was a world set in the future somewhere
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where Ghostbusters were a dime a dozen.
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They were rather like plumbers.
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[flushes]
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[Joe]
And it was very long and very complex.
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It just seemed impossible to make.
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[narrator] But for Ivan,
there was more to this script.
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I always had this idea
that there was a way of combining
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comedy with a larger than life,
science fiction story,
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but told in a very realistic,
naturalistic way.
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And so, I suddenly saw
a way of fulfilling this thing
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that had been swirling around in my head.
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[narrator] Over lunch at this deli,
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Ivan served Dan
a hefty slice of humble pie.
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[Ivan] I said, "Look, I think this is
a going into business story.
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You've got three smart guys,
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and... they get into trouble
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just at a time when it seems like
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there's these ghosts
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They trap them and they become famous.
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-That was sort of what I pitched.
-[narrator] After careful consideration...
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Well, I don't know. I mean I...
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And he said, "Sure."
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-Great.
-[narrator] Oh. Okay, then.
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I said, "Look, let's rewrite this,
but let's break Harold in.
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-Harold's really funny."
-[narrator] But still, another writer?
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-Surely he was--
-"Sure."
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-Great.
-[narrator] Oh, okay.
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Harold Ramis had an office
across the street at Warner Brothers,
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and Ivan and Dan came back and said,
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"We're gonna go over and see Harold
and see if he wants to work on this."
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[narrator] He did.
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-"Yeah, he seems like he's interested."
-[narrator] And good thing too...
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because Harold Ramis
was another legend of comedy,
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and although not a Canadian,
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he had written
on all of Ivan Reitman's movies.
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Except that one.
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My dad was a great writer,
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and he was also a great director.
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People loved working with him.
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[narrator] And ever since Stripes,
he was a movie actor too.
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I'd like to try just one more time,
and then we'll call it a day.
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When Harold came on as a writer,
he said, "I want to play a part in this."
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Nobody objected to that.
Are you kidding?
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We get Harold as a writer and performer?
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You know, one of the greatest
to come out of Second City? Great.
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-Thank you for calling.
-[man on phone] You called me, moron.
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[Harold] I loved the premise.
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Ivan and I really saw eye-to-eye
on how to reshape the script.
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He was a skeptic,
he was not a believer at all,
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but we were a perfectly fused
writing team.
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[narrator]
So that's two Ghostbusters down.
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However, without Belushi,
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they still need a star
for that third Ghostbuster.
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But instead of Eddie Murphy...
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Hello, I'm Bill Murray.
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You can call me Billy,
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but around here,
everybody just calls me "the new guy."
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Dan had said that Bill Murray
would be in it.
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[narrator] And why wouldn't he?
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At this point, the streams
were well and truly crossed.
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Rising to stardom at Second City
with Belushi and Harold Ramis,
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Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd
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co-starred four years
at Saturday Night Live.
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And he'd even been
in two movies with Ivan.
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So, with Bill locked in,
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their comedy powerhouse was complete.
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If, that is, Bill would show up.
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[Joe] With Bill, it's always iffy,
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because he tends to
not make his mind up.
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I remember the trouble I had
to get him to commit to Meatballs,
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and then even later to Stripes,
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after we had this huge hit.
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So there was always this little sense of,
"Yeah, I think he's in.
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I mean, Danny says he's in."
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You know...
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getting Bill to deliver...
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Danny just kept saying
Bill was going to do this.
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We presumed he was.
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[narrator] But hold on a minute.
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For Bill or any of them to do it,
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they'd need to find
a studio to pay for it.
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So, I pitched immediately
to Frank Price...
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Chairman, President, CEO
of Columbia Pictures.
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The studio that had made Stripes.
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[narrator] They hadn't just made it,
they'd made a lot of money from it.
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It's always good
when you've jointly done a hit.
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[narrator] Ivan's $10 million comedy
grossed over $80 million.
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So, when Ivan sat down
to pitch Ghostbusters,
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Frank really only had one question.
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He says, "How much?"
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I said... and I didn't have
any idea what it would cost,
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I knew that Stripes had cost ten million.
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I still remember this.
Ivan held the script up,
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and said, "Feels like $25 million."
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And they didn't blink, they just said...
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"Okay, you got it."
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I said, "We're going?"
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And he said... uh...
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-Yes.
-Yep.
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It seemed as close to a sure bet
to not lose money as I could get.
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[narrator]
And with that, based on an idea alone...
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It was a concept.
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[narrator] ...Frank Price greenlit
Ghostbusters for $25 million...
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We got one!
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[ringing]
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[narrator]
...with absolutely no strings attached.
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-Um...
-[narrator] Except one.
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You have to have it ready
by June 8th, 1984.
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This was May of 1983.
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I wanted it for early summer,
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because it's where you can
just rake in the money.
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And not knowing any better,
we said, "Sure. Lots of time."
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[chuckles] Of course.
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[narrator] It really wasn't.
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I thought, well, we had to get writing.
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[narrator] So the first thing they did
was go to the beach.
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We went to Dan's house
for a month in the summer.
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For Dan, Ivan and my dad
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to just sort of bang out the script.
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They were under a lot of time pressure.
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I do remember them
filling the yellow legal pads
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with sort of longhand script notes.
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We put this half-baked screenplay
first draft together
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in about two weeks.
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[narrator] Maybe not just the script
that was half baked...
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They were stoned a lot of the time.
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[narrator] So, oddly enough, at the end
of their grueling beach holiday...
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It was an incomplete script.
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It has leaps of logic,
things that didn't work really.
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We were trying to get our hands
around this Keymaster/Gatekeeper idea.
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I am the Keymaster.
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I am the Gatekeeper.
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[Ivan] They were just cool words,
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but most of it is still in the movie
in some form.
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[narrator] But something in the script
was quite literally about taking form.
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[woman] Choose the form of the destructor?
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-[narrator] And that part...
-Okay, so empty your heads.
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[narrator] Well, Ivan couldn't
clear his mind of doubt.
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I was really worried
about the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
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It was the one leap in logic
that really concerned me.
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[narrator]
It was also one of the only things left
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from Dan's original script.
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[Dan] He was a cross between
the Michelin Tire Man,
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the Pillsbury Doughboy,
and the Angelus marshmallow man,
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that was a product we had in Canada.
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When the design team
put the sailor hat on him,
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I fell out of my chair.
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I just doubled over. It was so funny.
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[narrator] Despite Ivan's objections,
the Marshmallow Man was here to stay,
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puffed or otherwise.
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As were the hundreds of other effect shots
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that the ever-evolving script
was producing.
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We didn't know anything
about special effects
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and how long they took.
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[narrator] And that's why you hire
a big-time special effects company.
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The only real big-time special effects
company in existence was ILM.
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[narrator] ILM were the one and only
big-time special effects company.
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[Ivan] But ILM couldn't do it.
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They were already going to
work with Spielberg
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on the Temple of Doom movie.
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[narrator] So, all the best minds
in the visual effects business
346
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-were consumed.
-[slurps]
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So, they were gone.
348
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[narrator]
However, little did anyone know,
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trouble was brewing at ILM,
350
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and those troubles were having
a special kind of effect
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on one of their star Star Wars employees.
352
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I wanted to go off on my own.
353
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[narrator] This is Richard Edlund,
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a maestro of movie magic,
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and he wasn't happy at ILM.
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It had become kind of corporate
and I didn't care for it.
357
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[narrator] But guess what?
He wasn't the only one.
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Richard Edlund was leaving to come to LA.
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I said, "If you find anything interesting
down there, give me a call.
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He said,
"I thought you were married here."
361
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I said, "I'm married
to the collection of dead presidents."
362
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[narrator]
So, Ivan suggested that Columbia
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might advance
quite a few dead presidents...
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Five million.
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-[narrator] ...Richard Edlund's way.
-...to start his own company.
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Uh, well...
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You have to start
laying out right now.
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Well...
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It suffered from the fact
that it had stars
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and it had special effects.
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And you had to pay for both of them.
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The question was, can we get it done?
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It could be done.
And so, I was off and running.
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I gave the word to the-- to the team.
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Richard hired me on.
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Richard called me and says,
"Okay, it's on."
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He pretty much cherry-picked ILM,
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and that's how Boss Films started.
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[narrator] Tearing the heart
from ILM's core talent pool,
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Ivan suddenly had the best of the best,
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who immediately wondered...
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How're we gonna do all this?
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From this moment on, we can't mess around.
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So, I took the script and started
roughing out sequences.
385
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[narrator] Like all these ones
that didn't even end up in the movie.
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That was the early July draft.
[chuckling] Of-- of the script.
387
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[narrator] As the drafts kept coming...
Ivan kept asking for more effects shots.
388
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Keep in mind that we had
only ten months to do this project.
389
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And Richard kept saying,
"No, no! I can't do anymore."
390
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[narrator] As the team began facing
the reality of an unrealistic schedule,
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there was a much bigger problem.
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Frank Price...
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had a Coke problem.
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Coca-Cola, obviously.
395
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♪ Coke is it! ♪
396
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[narrator] Because Coke was it!
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As in, Frank's new boss.
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Columbia was owned by Coca-Cola.
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[narrator] Four months before Frank
greenlit Ghostbusters,
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this corporate behemoth
quite fancied themselves as movie makers.
401
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But according to Frank...
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They knew nothing about motion pictures,
403
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and didn't really care that much to learn.
404
00:16:54,319 --> 00:16:57,197
[narrator] Such a shame,
because Frank had a lot to teach them.
405
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Since the late '70s,
406
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Frank had delivered hit after hit
after hit for Columbia,
407
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but when it came to Ghostbusters...
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They didn't want me to do it.
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[narrator] But why would Coke
want to shut down Ghostbusters?
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Because it was an expensive,
special effects comedy.
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"It will never make its money back."
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[narrator] And thus began a standoff
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between Frank and his new fizzy overlords
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who were looking to can Ghostbusters.
415
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There was this tacit understanding
416
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that the Columbia board approved
everything I did.
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And once they didn't approve it,
418
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there was no point in me sticking around.
419
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I should be elsewhere.
420
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[narrator] But for now,
Frank too was here to stay.
421
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-Oh, yeah.
-[narrator] Puffed or otherwise.
422
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However, none of this
mattered to Ivan yet.
423
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[Ivan] I knew we had to get going
424
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and that I had to start casting.
425
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[narrator] With two big names,
and one maybe already cast,
426
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there was one other big name
427
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that was proving
really, really difficult to land.
428
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We loved the name Ghostbusters.
429
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[narrator]
Well, bad news! That name was taken...
430
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[theme song playing]
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by these guys.
432
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We discovered that the name "Ghostbusters"
433
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was owned by a company called Filmation,
434
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which was an animation company.
435
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[narrator] Most famously known
for this after-school hero.
436
00:18:10,979 --> 00:18:13,731
I have the power!
437
00:18:13,815 --> 00:18:16,526
Columbia was negotiating with them
for the title.
438
00:18:16,609 --> 00:18:18,945
Yeah, I mean we were
struggling with the title,
439
00:18:19,028 --> 00:18:20,530
trying to pin it down.
440
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Filmation, they weren't willing
to give up the title.
441
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I think they wanted more money
than Columbia wanted to pay.
442
00:18:25,785 --> 00:18:27,412
-No.
-[soda tab cracks, fizzing]
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Columbia kept saying, "You've got to
cover this. You got to cover it."
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Don't shoot it just as Ghostbusters.
445
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Call it "Ghostbreakers" too.
446
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[narrator] So, in case FIlmation
refused to give up the name,
447
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the Coke-owned Columbia
448
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insisted the team shoot two versions...
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Ghostbusters and Ghostbreakers.
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[narrator] Despite these problems,
with mere months until shooting began...
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[Ivan] We had to get going.
452
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I had to start casting.
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[narrator] And to help Ivan,
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he brought in Karen Rea
to cast the remaining spots.
455
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Okay.
456
00:18:56,106 --> 00:18:57,858
When I started working on Ghostbusters...
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the word travels in town
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that you're on a hot script
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-with Bill Murray.
-[narrator] Well, maybe.
460
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I think he's in...
I mean Danny says he's in.
461
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Yeah.
462
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So you get amazing submissions.
463
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Okay, who brought the dog?
464
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[narrator] Every man and his dog
wanted in on Ghostbusters.
465
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For Karen, she was like a kid
in a John Candy store.
466
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We thought we were going
to use John Candy in the Louis Tully role.
467
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Originally, in the storyboards,
we basically drew in John Candy,
468
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because that's who we heard
was going to be this character.
469
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-[crowd clamoring]
-[creature snarling]
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But for whatever reason,
the deal didn't come together.
471
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He didn't like the part.
472
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He wanted to play it a completely
different way, and Ivan didn't agree.
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-Bye, bye.
-Bye, bye now.
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[Karen] And we just started
auditioning other people,
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-although we didn't go far.
-Cut!
476
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I was thinking, "What if I was a cow
and first thing in the morning,
477
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I have to give milk?" You know?
478
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-[bullet ricochets]
-[audience laughs]
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[Karen] Rick Moranis came in to audition
480
00:19:51,745 --> 00:19:54,748
and he had his own ideas
about Louis Tully.
481
00:19:54,831 --> 00:19:56,416
Rick really created his character.
482
00:19:56,500 --> 00:19:58,669
He said, "I want to play him as a nerd."
483
00:19:58,752 --> 00:20:01,713
I kind of see him a little bit like...
484
00:20:01,797 --> 00:20:03,131
And a good, good morning to you,
485
00:20:03,215 --> 00:20:04,758
welcome back to the Jerry Todd show.
486
00:20:04,841 --> 00:20:06,718
You shouldn't leave your TV on so loud
when you go out.
487
00:20:06,802 --> 00:20:08,679
The creep down the hall
phoned the manager.
488
00:20:09,263 --> 00:20:10,180
And that was it.
489
00:20:10,764 --> 00:20:11,848
He nailed it.
490
00:20:12,641 --> 00:20:15,394
At one point, they said,
"Pee-wee Herman's going to be Gozer."
491
00:20:15,477 --> 00:20:17,104
[Pee-wee chuckling]
492
00:20:18,397 --> 00:20:21,650
[narrator] But Pee-wee was replaced
by Serbian actress, Slavitza Jovan.
493
00:20:21,733 --> 00:20:22,859
No thanks to Dan Aykroyd.
494
00:20:22,943 --> 00:20:25,112
There wasn't a girl in the first draft.
495
00:20:25,195 --> 00:20:26,238
Not even Dana?
496
00:20:26,321 --> 00:20:28,365
Ivan and Harold really initiated that.
497
00:20:28,448 --> 00:20:30,450
Romance wasn't for me.
I'm not romantic.
498
00:20:31,118 --> 00:20:31,994
[chuckles]
499
00:20:32,077 --> 00:20:33,578
[narrator]
But Bill Murray on the other hand...
500
00:20:33,662 --> 00:20:35,122
Is this a trick question?
501
00:20:35,205 --> 00:20:37,749
[Karen] We auditioned a lot of women.
502
00:20:37,833 --> 00:20:39,418
We didn't necessarily want a name.
503
00:20:40,168 --> 00:20:43,338
We just wanted the right chemistry
to work with Bill.
504
00:20:44,089 --> 00:20:46,717
But the moment we heard that Sigourney
was interested...
505
00:20:47,509 --> 00:20:48,552
we were open.
506
00:20:49,469 --> 00:20:50,470
May I help you?
507
00:20:50,554 --> 00:20:51,430
Um...
508
00:20:51,638 --> 00:20:54,891
[narrator] At that time, Sigourney
was more known for alien busting.
509
00:20:54,975 --> 00:20:55,851
Dallas?
510
00:20:55,934 --> 00:20:57,227
Are you kidding?
Could we get her?
511
00:20:57,311 --> 00:20:59,938
[Joe] We were thrilled that Sigourney
was willing to come in.
512
00:21:00,022 --> 00:21:01,982
We thought of her
as a very serious actor.
513
00:21:02,899 --> 00:21:04,151
She came into audition...
514
00:21:04,234 --> 00:21:07,029
And she said, "You know,
those dogs on the roof,
515
00:21:07,112 --> 00:21:08,905
I think I should become a dog."
516
00:21:08,989 --> 00:21:10,782
I said, "What do you mean?"
517
00:21:10,866 --> 00:21:13,285
She gets on her hands and knees
on my coffee table
518
00:21:13,785 --> 00:21:16,705
and starts howling and... wiggling...
519
00:21:17,372 --> 00:21:18,498
[roars]
520
00:21:18,915 --> 00:21:19,916
And she worked it.
521
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,669
Whatever I may think of
that physical performance...
522
00:21:22,753 --> 00:21:25,464
I think, "There's a good idea here."
523
00:21:25,714 --> 00:21:29,009
-[narrator] So, for Ivan's...
-Keymaster/Gatekeeper idea...
524
00:21:29,092 --> 00:21:30,635
-[narrator] ...which were...
-...just cool words...
525
00:21:30,719 --> 00:21:32,763
[narrator] ...Sigourney unlocked an idea.
526
00:21:32,846 --> 00:21:34,890
[Ivan]
She talked about becoming possessed
527
00:21:34,973 --> 00:21:37,142
and suddenly I start
528
00:21:37,225 --> 00:21:40,687
thinking of this whole sequence
of hands in the armchair
529
00:21:40,771 --> 00:21:42,564
-and how she could do it.
-[screaming]
530
00:21:42,647 --> 00:21:46,026
[narrator] So, as Sigourney opened
the gate to Ivan's writer's block,
531
00:21:46,109 --> 00:21:47,694
the cast was complete.
532
00:21:48,153 --> 00:21:49,154
Well, almost.
533
00:21:49,988 --> 00:21:51,448
[Karen] The role of Winston...
534
00:21:51,531 --> 00:21:53,492
at one point, we were
talking about Eddie Murphy.
535
00:21:53,575 --> 00:21:56,035
We figured we couldn't
afford Eddie Murphy at that point.
536
00:21:56,118 --> 00:21:57,661
-No.
-[soda can pops, fizzles]
537
00:21:57,745 --> 00:21:59,413
This is Winston Zeddemore,
538
00:21:59,497 --> 00:22:00,623
he's here about the job.
539
00:22:00,706 --> 00:22:03,793
[narrator] But really, the role Dan wrote
for Eddie was gone anyway.
540
00:22:03,876 --> 00:22:05,711
Eddie got replaced by Billy, really,
541
00:22:06,087 --> 00:22:07,963
as the main comic voice.
542
00:22:08,047 --> 00:22:10,424
[narrator] But there weren't
just three Ghostbusters. There were...
543
00:22:10,508 --> 00:22:11,467
Four Ghostbusters.
544
00:22:11,550 --> 00:22:13,260
[narrator]
And there's an important reason for that.
545
00:22:13,344 --> 00:22:15,304
We had to have someone from the outside
546
00:22:15,388 --> 00:22:17,848
to come in and observe
this strange world we'd created.
547
00:22:17,932 --> 00:22:20,351
[narrator] And that outsider was this man.
548
00:22:20,726 --> 00:22:24,397
I'm Ernie Hudson, and I played,
um, Winston Zeddemore.
549
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:25,481
Welcome aboard.
550
00:22:25,898 --> 00:22:27,191
[narrator]
A veteran of the small screen...
551
00:22:27,274 --> 00:22:29,443
-It's over.
-[narrator] ...Ernie Hudson was looking
552
00:22:29,527 --> 00:22:30,945
-to make it big.
-Good luck to you.
553
00:22:31,028 --> 00:22:34,365
I'd been told if you can
get in a major studio movie,
554
00:22:34,448 --> 00:22:36,826
and it's a hit,
your life is going to change.
555
00:22:38,202 --> 00:22:40,287
Light is green, trap is clean.
556
00:22:40,371 --> 00:22:41,539
This was a big deal for Ernie.
557
00:22:41,622 --> 00:22:43,207
[narrator] And a big part.
558
00:22:43,290 --> 00:22:44,333
What do you mean big?
559
00:22:44,417 --> 00:22:47,670
[narrator] Well, in the first draft,
Winston showed up on page 28.
560
00:22:47,753 --> 00:22:49,839
He had a lot of really good lines.
561
00:22:49,922 --> 00:22:53,134
This is a major production.
This is Hollywood.
562
00:22:53,217 --> 00:22:56,178
[narrator]
So, after just months of preparation,
563
00:22:56,262 --> 00:22:58,389
they turned up in New York City
564
00:22:58,472 --> 00:22:59,515
to start shooting,
565
00:22:59,598 --> 00:23:01,767
and everyone was ready to roll.
566
00:23:01,851 --> 00:23:03,686
-[crickets chirping]
-Well, almost everyone.
567
00:23:04,228 --> 00:23:06,188
[Ivan] Bill was in France at the time
568
00:23:06,689 --> 00:23:08,983
while we were doing all this
sort of prep work.
569
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:10,901
[Karen]
He hadn't signed the dotted line yet.
570
00:23:10,985 --> 00:23:14,530
So, there was a deal,
but it wasn't 100% in place.
571
00:23:14,613 --> 00:23:17,533
I had this nervousness that he wasn't
really going to show up
572
00:23:17,616 --> 00:23:19,994
because I was taking
Aykroyd's word for it.
573
00:23:20,077 --> 00:23:21,245
And we don't know where he is.
574
00:23:21,328 --> 00:23:22,413
We're about to start tomorrow,
575
00:23:22,496 --> 00:23:24,790
and we would like to get our first shot
by 10:30.
576
00:23:25,291 --> 00:23:26,625
Nobody knew where Billy was.
577
00:23:27,293 --> 00:23:28,335
Lo and behold...
578
00:23:29,003 --> 00:23:29,837
There he is.
579
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:31,881
Eight in the morning, he shows up
on the set to go to work.
580
00:23:31,964 --> 00:23:34,508
You know.
That's classic Murray, you know:
581
00:23:35,176 --> 00:23:37,344
an enigma, wrapped in an enigma.
582
00:23:37,428 --> 00:23:40,181
[narrator] But wrapping was the last thing
on their mind...
583
00:23:40,264 --> 00:23:42,892
as they rolled cameras
for the first time in New York City.
584
00:23:43,350 --> 00:23:45,186
[William] When you're shooting
on the street in New York,
585
00:23:45,269 --> 00:23:47,188
it's just a different feeling
and it's another energy.
586
00:23:47,271 --> 00:23:48,689
And these men are...
587
00:23:48,772 --> 00:23:51,567
And the other cool thing was,
because of Saturday Night Live,
588
00:23:51,692 --> 00:23:53,277
these guys were the epitome of cool.
589
00:23:54,487 --> 00:23:56,447
And they were in their capital city.
590
00:23:57,573 --> 00:24:01,744
And it was just such fun
to watch people watch them.
591
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,413
[narrator] And there'd be plenty of time
for people watching,
592
00:24:04,497 --> 00:24:06,624
because they were shooting
double the footage.
593
00:24:06,916 --> 00:24:09,043
Don't shoot it just as Ghostbusters.
594
00:24:09,126 --> 00:24:12,129
[narrator] Still unable to clear the title
"Ghostbusters..."
595
00:24:12,213 --> 00:24:13,631
I'd been unable to do that.
596
00:24:13,714 --> 00:24:15,883
[narrator]
...the team was shooting things twice.
597
00:24:15,966 --> 00:24:19,345
At the firehouse, where they're putting up
a sign that said "Ghostbusters..."
598
00:24:19,428 --> 00:24:21,597
[Peter]
You don't think it's too subtle, Marty?
599
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,808
You don't think people are gonna
drive down and not see the sign.
600
00:24:24,934 --> 00:24:26,101
[tape whirrs]
601
00:24:26,477 --> 00:24:28,812
Well, they took that sign down,
602
00:24:28,896 --> 00:24:31,482
and they put another one up
that said, uh...
603
00:24:31,565 --> 00:24:32,650
"Ghostbreakers."
604
00:24:33,192 --> 00:24:34,735
[Peter] You don't think it's too subtle...
605
00:24:34,818 --> 00:24:37,029
I said, "We can't do this every scene.
This is nuts."
606
00:24:37,112 --> 00:24:38,656
[narrator] But subtle it wasn't
607
00:24:38,739 --> 00:24:42,076
when a throng of extras
assembled in front of Spook Central.
608
00:24:42,159 --> 00:24:44,411
[Bill] I took a piece of the crowd,
Ivan took a piece of the crowd,
609
00:24:44,495 --> 00:24:46,330
and we just started
yelling at people what to do.
610
00:24:46,413 --> 00:24:47,248
Hello, New York.
611
00:24:47,331 --> 00:24:48,415
You guys stand here...
612
00:24:48,499 --> 00:24:50,501
And Ivan got back up in the camera,
you know,
613
00:24:50,584 --> 00:24:51,752
I'm shouting away at people.
614
00:24:52,586 --> 00:24:54,004
We had 400 extras...
615
00:24:54,088 --> 00:24:55,422
and they were all yelling...
616
00:24:55,506 --> 00:24:57,925
[all chanting] Ghostbusters,
Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters...
617
00:24:58,300 --> 00:25:00,094
[narrator] And Columbia, as agreed,
618
00:25:00,177 --> 00:25:02,054
expected them to do an alternative take.
619
00:25:02,137 --> 00:25:02,972
Yes.
620
00:25:03,055 --> 00:25:05,349
[narrator] Which, understandably,
they weren't that keen on doing.
621
00:25:05,516 --> 00:25:06,350
No.
622
00:25:06,767 --> 00:25:08,310
[all chanting]
Ghostbreakers, Ghostbreakers...
623
00:25:08,394 --> 00:25:10,813
[narrator]
But Joe had had enough of this nonsense.
624
00:25:10,896 --> 00:25:12,773
Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters....
625
00:25:12,856 --> 00:25:15,109
[all chanting] Ghostbusters,
Ghostbusters Ghostbusters....
626
00:25:15,192 --> 00:25:18,361
[Bill]
I found a phone booth near the street.
627
00:25:19,070 --> 00:25:20,488
I phoned Columbia...
628
00:25:20,572 --> 00:25:21,781
[phone rings]
629
00:25:21,990 --> 00:25:23,700
...held the phone up and said...
630
00:25:23,783 --> 00:25:26,202
-[Bill over phone] Listen to this...
-[crowd] Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters...
631
00:25:26,286 --> 00:25:28,454
[all chanting] Ghostbusters,
Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters....
632
00:25:28,538 --> 00:25:30,957
[Bill] There's 400 extras out there
yelling "Ghostbusters."
633
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:32,208
We can't do this twice.
634
00:25:32,584 --> 00:25:33,459
[narrator] And they didn't.
635
00:25:33,793 --> 00:25:36,087
-From that moment forward...
-[men] Ghostbusters.
636
00:25:36,170 --> 00:25:38,381
-[phone ringing]
-would be the only name they answered to.
637
00:25:38,464 --> 00:25:40,091
Ghostbusters. What do you want?
638
00:25:40,174 --> 00:25:42,176
-It was now in Frank Price's hands...
-Yeah.
639
00:25:42,260 --> 00:25:44,721
...to get those name rights
from Filmation.
640
00:25:44,804 --> 00:25:46,264
[man] Would you two clowns get out of here
641
00:25:46,347 --> 00:25:48,474
and go get our next
ghostbusting assignment?
642
00:25:48,558 --> 00:25:50,393
This is a great title, you gotta clear it.
643
00:25:50,518 --> 00:25:51,686
[narrator] Unfortunately...
644
00:25:51,769 --> 00:25:54,188
Things were rocky with Coca-Cola,
645
00:25:54,272 --> 00:25:57,066
so we agreed to part ways.
646
00:25:57,150 --> 00:25:59,319
Ah! You thought you could win
from us, huh?
647
00:25:59,402 --> 00:26:03,323
[narrator] So, if Frank was out,
who would protect Ghostbusters
648
00:26:03,406 --> 00:26:05,491
from the black fizzy menace on high?
649
00:26:05,575 --> 00:26:07,785
I hope we can take care of this quietly.
650
00:26:07,869 --> 00:26:10,622
Would that be it for Ghostbusters?
651
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,916
In finalizing Ivan's contract,
652
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,879
I gave Ivan a great deal of control
over marketing
653
00:26:17,962 --> 00:26:22,216
so that nobody could step in
and kill the project.
654
00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:24,636
[narrator] As Frank faced unemployment...
655
00:26:24,969 --> 00:26:25,845
very briefly.
656
00:26:25,928 --> 00:26:28,765
I was offered head of Universal Pictures.
657
00:26:28,848 --> 00:26:31,684
[narrator] What on earth would they
do about the name?
658
00:26:31,976 --> 00:26:33,978
Let's ignore the problems,
let's just keep going.
659
00:26:34,062 --> 00:26:34,937
[narrator] And they did.
660
00:26:35,355 --> 00:26:37,565
-Let's just keep going.
-[narrator] Get on with it, then.
661
00:26:37,649 --> 00:26:38,816
No, we're going ahead.
662
00:26:39,025 --> 00:26:40,026
-Let's just--
-[narrator] Okay.
663
00:26:40,693 --> 00:26:42,445
Meanwhile, back in LA,
664
00:26:42,528 --> 00:26:44,530
the newly assembled Boss Films
665
00:26:44,614 --> 00:26:45,657
was hard at work.
666
00:26:45,740 --> 00:26:48,409
Our approach was, "This is a cartoon."
667
00:26:48,493 --> 00:26:51,746
So, we overly storyboard
and overly posed
668
00:26:51,829 --> 00:26:53,414
and we had some quite funny sketches.
669
00:26:54,207 --> 00:26:56,751
Steve Johnson was hired
to head up our creature shop.
670
00:26:56,834 --> 00:26:58,628
He would just take the drawings
671
00:26:58,711 --> 00:27:01,881
and do these really funny
little clay models.
672
00:27:01,964 --> 00:27:03,925
[narrator] First out of the hot dog cart
673
00:27:04,008 --> 00:27:06,427
would be this iconic, green ghost.
674
00:27:07,553 --> 00:27:09,806
My name is Steve Johnson
and I did Slimer.
675
00:27:09,889 --> 00:27:12,475
We had spent weeks, months, designing him,
676
00:27:12,558 --> 00:27:15,687
and ended up doing 12
before we finally agreed on one.
677
00:27:16,437 --> 00:27:19,065
And the night before he was
meant to be approved,
678
00:27:19,148 --> 00:27:21,401
all the executives were coming
next morning to sign off on him,
679
00:27:21,484 --> 00:27:24,112
I get a note saying
he's got to look like John Belushi.
680
00:27:25,697 --> 00:27:26,948
"Make him look like Belushi."
681
00:27:27,532 --> 00:27:29,242
[narrator]
Well, that makes sense given that...
682
00:27:29,325 --> 00:27:30,827
[Dan] Me, John Belushi, and Eddie Murphy
683
00:27:30,910 --> 00:27:32,203
were supposed to be
the original Ghostbusters.
684
00:27:32,286 --> 00:27:33,955
His buddies, Harold and Dan,
685
00:27:34,038 --> 00:27:35,873
decided this was a way
to keep him in the movie,
686
00:27:35,957 --> 00:27:37,792
as a slobby, obnoxious ghost,
687
00:27:37,875 --> 00:27:39,544
like his Bluto character in Animal House.
688
00:27:40,586 --> 00:27:41,546
[woman shrieks] Oh!
689
00:27:41,796 --> 00:27:42,755
I'm a zit.
690
00:27:43,214 --> 00:27:44,048
Get it?
691
00:27:44,465 --> 00:27:46,551
That's exactly what it was.
But I'm thinking...
692
00:27:46,634 --> 00:27:47,635
"It's a smile with arms.
693
00:27:47,719 --> 00:27:49,554
How do I get this
to look like John Belushi?
694
00:27:49,637 --> 00:27:51,806
This is ridiculous.
And you tell me the night before?"
695
00:27:51,889 --> 00:27:53,015
This is insanity.
696
00:27:53,099 --> 00:27:54,225
[narrator] Nevertheless...
697
00:27:54,308 --> 00:27:57,019
Steve devoted all his energy and talent
698
00:27:57,103 --> 00:27:59,480
into transforming this green ghost
699
00:27:59,564 --> 00:28:02,066
into an appropriate tribute
to the late Belushi.
700
00:28:03,276 --> 00:28:04,944
I kind of didn't and told them I did.
701
00:28:05,027 --> 00:28:07,989
And they said, "It looks great.
[chuckling] It looks just like Belushi."
702
00:28:08,072 --> 00:28:09,490
Hi, I'm Mark Bryan Wilson,
703
00:28:09,574 --> 00:28:11,617
and I was the performer inside of Slimer.
704
00:28:12,577 --> 00:28:13,661
Slimer has a butt.
705
00:28:14,203 --> 00:28:16,038
We had a small crew.
706
00:28:16,122 --> 00:28:17,623
I think there was six people
707
00:28:17,707 --> 00:28:21,043
pulling triggers and stuff
to manipulate the brows,
708
00:28:21,127 --> 00:28:22,754
the eyes and the expressions.
709
00:28:24,338 --> 00:28:27,633
[Thaine]
And with that much equipment around him,
710
00:28:27,717 --> 00:28:30,136
there was no way to make him move.
711
00:28:30,386 --> 00:28:34,015
So, if you want to move Slimer
away from you,
712
00:28:34,098 --> 00:28:35,683
you start the shot very close
713
00:28:35,767 --> 00:28:38,351
and then move rapidly back.
714
00:28:38,435 --> 00:28:39,519
[shouting indistinctly]
715
00:28:39,895 --> 00:28:41,855
We kept saying,
"Are we on the verge of stupid?
716
00:28:41,938 --> 00:28:43,815
Or is it really funny?"
717
00:28:43,899 --> 00:28:46,067
I mean, at that point,
we were going so quickly.
718
00:28:46,151 --> 00:28:48,195
Ivan was nervous about it,
I remember that.
719
00:28:48,487 --> 00:28:50,781
[narrator]
And Ivan took those nerves back to LA
720
00:28:51,281 --> 00:28:53,450
with the release date
hurtling toward them.
721
00:28:53,992 --> 00:28:55,243
It's going to be June 8th.
722
00:28:55,327 --> 00:28:57,454
[narrator]
As the special effects crew scrambled,
723
00:28:57,537 --> 00:28:58,789
Ivan and his team
724
00:28:58,872 --> 00:29:02,542
shot almost all the interiors
for those iconic New York landmarks...
725
00:29:03,084 --> 00:29:04,252
in Los Angeles,
726
00:29:04,878 --> 00:29:07,631
much of it shot on location
across the city
727
00:29:07,714 --> 00:29:09,674
like the basement
of the New York Library.
728
00:29:09,758 --> 00:29:10,675
Stay close.
729
00:29:11,593 --> 00:29:14,429
[narrator]
Well. It's actually the LA Public Library.
730
00:29:14,679 --> 00:29:16,389
Ready? Get her!
731
00:29:16,515 --> 00:29:17,849
[snarling]
732
00:29:18,308 --> 00:29:21,228
[narrator] The inside
of this New York firehouse... LA.
733
00:29:21,311 --> 00:29:23,021
I think this building should be condemned.
734
00:29:23,104 --> 00:29:25,607
-[narrator] It actually since has been.
-Wow.
735
00:29:25,690 --> 00:29:27,943
[narrator]
This hotel, both outside and inside,
736
00:29:28,026 --> 00:29:30,195
well, this is a fancy, Los Angeles hotel.
737
00:29:30,278 --> 00:29:31,738
Hey! Anybody see a ghost?
738
00:29:31,905 --> 00:29:34,366
[narrator] And once they finished
all their location shooting...
739
00:29:34,449 --> 00:29:36,409
That wasn't such a chore now, was it?
740
00:29:36,493 --> 00:29:38,912
[narrator]
...they moved into Burbank Studios
741
00:29:38,995 --> 00:29:41,957
-for the remainder of their shoot.
-[Bill] We shot the rooftop stuff
742
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,750
on the biggest stage in Los Angeles.
743
00:29:44,334 --> 00:29:45,502
It filled the stage.
744
00:29:45,585 --> 00:29:47,629
It was hard to figure out
where to put the camera.
745
00:29:49,047 --> 00:29:50,966
[narrator] Other less stream-crossing,
746
00:29:51,049 --> 00:29:52,092
portal-reversing,
747
00:29:52,175 --> 00:29:53,593
shaving-cream-dropping scenes...
748
00:29:53,677 --> 00:29:55,637
They saved the shaving cream for Burbank.
749
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:57,472
[narrator]
...were shot on the soundstage too.
750
00:29:57,973 --> 00:29:59,558
If something's gonna happen here,
751
00:29:59,641 --> 00:30:01,059
I want it to happen to me first.
752
00:30:02,936 --> 00:30:05,272
[narrator]
And it was here, on the soundstage,
753
00:30:05,355 --> 00:30:06,898
that there was no doubt at all
754
00:30:06,982 --> 00:30:08,859
that Bill Murray had shown up...
755
00:30:09,192 --> 00:30:10,527
-and then some.
-[Dan] Boy, he was--
756
00:30:10,610 --> 00:30:12,237
He-- He sure came through for us.
757
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,739
One of the greatest
comic leading actors ever.
758
00:30:16,366 --> 00:30:17,492
[Peter] He hits the piano key.
759
00:30:17,617 --> 00:30:19,619
[plinking]
760
00:30:19,828 --> 00:30:21,037
-And he says...
-They hate this.
761
00:30:21,162 --> 00:30:22,247
-[plinking]
-[people laughing]
762
00:30:22,372 --> 00:30:23,290
And cut!
763
00:30:23,373 --> 00:30:24,875
I laughed out loud.
764
00:30:25,458 --> 00:30:28,587
I remember Ivan saying, "Thanks to
Mr. Bruno, we have to do that again."
765
00:30:29,296 --> 00:30:30,547
That's the bedroom...
766
00:30:30,630 --> 00:30:32,340
but nothing ever happened in there.
767
00:30:32,465 --> 00:30:35,635
It was exciting to be there
and watch Billy and Sigourney work.
768
00:30:36,219 --> 00:30:37,470
What a crime.
769
00:30:37,804 --> 00:30:40,473
Bill Murray was coming up with stuff
off the top of his head.
770
00:30:40,807 --> 00:30:41,641
Is this true?
771
00:30:42,767 --> 00:30:43,643
Yes, it's true.
772
00:30:44,185 --> 00:30:45,770
This man has no dick.
773
00:30:47,188 --> 00:30:50,191
The argument that I got into with Bill
at the end of it...
774
00:30:50,567 --> 00:30:51,610
Get him out of here.
775
00:30:51,693 --> 00:30:53,778
-Bye.
-[William] ...me shaking a finger at him,
776
00:30:53,862 --> 00:30:55,196
most of that was improvised.
777
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:56,114
I'm gonna fix you.
778
00:30:56,197 --> 00:30:57,824
I'm gonna get you a nice fruit basket.
779
00:30:57,908 --> 00:30:59,117
I'm gonna miss him.
780
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,245
After shooting the ghosts,
he comes out the door and says...
781
00:31:02,871 --> 00:31:05,165
What a knock-about pure fun that was.
782
00:31:05,248 --> 00:31:08,126
Okay, well, that's take one.
783
00:31:08,209 --> 00:31:10,462
And take two, he comes
out the door and says...
784
00:31:11,338 --> 00:31:13,673
We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!
785
00:31:13,757 --> 00:31:15,926
Ivan said, "That's the one.
We're going with that."
786
00:31:16,343 --> 00:31:17,802
[narrator] Even those immortal words...
787
00:31:17,886 --> 00:31:19,095
He slimed me.
788
00:31:19,429 --> 00:31:21,264
Well, he said four other things.
789
00:31:21,348 --> 00:31:22,390
"I've been gooed."
790
00:31:22,515 --> 00:31:24,309
[narrator]
If they'd stuck to the first draft...
791
00:31:24,392 --> 00:31:26,603
Bill wouldn't have said any of them.
792
00:31:26,937 --> 00:31:27,854
Let's not forget,
793
00:31:27,938 --> 00:31:30,065
the line was originally meant for Winston.
794
00:31:30,148 --> 00:31:32,776
You know, while we were shooting,
changes were being made...
795
00:31:33,234 --> 00:31:35,654
Of course, he would have liked
his role to be bigger,
796
00:31:35,737 --> 00:31:36,655
but it happens.
797
00:31:36,738 --> 00:31:39,950
A lot of the back story
of the character was cut.
798
00:31:40,450 --> 00:31:43,954
[narrator] When Ernie signed on,
Winston showed up on page 28.
799
00:31:44,037 --> 00:31:46,498
But during shooting, it became page 65.
800
00:31:46,581 --> 00:31:48,124
Which is frustrating to me.
801
00:31:48,208 --> 00:31:49,167
Oh, no.
802
00:31:49,250 --> 00:31:50,919
[narrator] Leaving Ernie with questions.
803
00:31:51,044 --> 00:31:51,920
[Ernie] How do I...?
804
00:31:52,003 --> 00:31:55,048
Why am I not in that thing there,
when I should be...?
805
00:31:55,131 --> 00:31:56,424
How come I'm not there?
806
00:31:56,508 --> 00:31:57,509
Why am I here?
807
00:31:57,592 --> 00:31:59,886
[narrator]
To help him answer such questions,
808
00:32:00,011 --> 00:32:01,971
Ernie didn't turn to the director.
809
00:32:02,054 --> 00:32:03,889
[Ernie] Harold would always remind me that
810
00:32:03,973 --> 00:32:06,100
all this stuff you think is personal
811
00:32:06,183 --> 00:32:07,643
it has nothing to do with you.
812
00:32:07,726 --> 00:32:09,979
I just work with these guys,
I wasn't even there.
813
00:32:10,062 --> 00:32:12,022
He'd say,
"Ernie, you've gotta let that go.
814
00:32:12,106 --> 00:32:13,857
It's alright. It's all good."
815
00:32:13,941 --> 00:32:15,109
It's Hollywood.
816
00:32:18,404 --> 00:32:20,531
[narrator]
As the final day of shooting approached,
817
00:32:20,614 --> 00:32:22,616
June 8th was getting closer too.
818
00:32:24,410 --> 00:32:27,955
Ivan Reitman was shooting by day
and editing by night.
819
00:32:28,038 --> 00:32:31,208
We would work until midnight,
one o'clock in the morning...
820
00:32:31,291 --> 00:32:32,793
We were trying to make a deadline.
821
00:32:33,585 --> 00:32:35,629
[narrator] And those late nights paid off,
822
00:32:35,713 --> 00:32:38,298
because less than two weeks
after they wrapped shooting...
823
00:32:38,382 --> 00:32:40,384
I had the whole picture put together
824
00:32:40,467 --> 00:32:43,387
and we decided that the next week
825
00:32:43,470 --> 00:32:44,972
we were going to preview the picture.
826
00:32:45,055 --> 00:32:47,641
We got to look at this
with some kind of audience,
827
00:32:47,766 --> 00:32:49,893
even though we don't have
any special effects.
828
00:32:49,977 --> 00:32:52,980
[narrator] The crew were anxious to see
the reaction of a live audience,
829
00:32:53,063 --> 00:32:54,898
but the film had some pretty big holes.
830
00:32:54,982 --> 00:32:56,108
Does this pole still work?
831
00:32:56,191 --> 00:32:58,444
[narrator] So, they were careful
not to count their chickens...
832
00:32:58,819 --> 00:33:00,612
before they fried on a counter top.
833
00:33:00,696 --> 00:33:03,115
Here's this noise in the refrigerator,
834
00:33:03,198 --> 00:33:05,451
and she goes over to the refrigerator...
835
00:33:06,493 --> 00:33:08,495
[tense music building]
836
00:33:10,873 --> 00:33:13,042
and she opens the door...
837
00:33:13,917 --> 00:33:15,294
[high-pitched droning]
838
00:33:15,377 --> 00:33:17,963
It said, "Visual FX goes here."
839
00:33:18,338 --> 00:33:20,132
[audience chattering]
840
00:33:20,340 --> 00:33:22,009
[screams]
841
00:33:22,217 --> 00:33:23,886
Well, the audience screamed.
842
00:33:23,969 --> 00:33:25,095
[crowd clamoring]
843
00:33:25,179 --> 00:33:27,181
[narrator]
The audience also seemed to react
844
00:33:27,264 --> 00:33:29,808
to an ominous marshmallow-y figure.
845
00:33:30,225 --> 00:33:32,061
Well, at least the idea of him.
846
00:33:32,144 --> 00:33:35,272
[Sheldon] That audience saw cars crashing
into each other,
847
00:33:35,355 --> 00:33:38,525
and everyone looking like,
you know, something's coming,
848
00:33:38,609 --> 00:33:40,069
but you didn't see anything.
849
00:33:40,152 --> 00:33:43,322
[narrator]
But there was one shot that made it in.
850
00:33:43,405 --> 00:33:46,241
The first moment that head bobbed along,
851
00:33:46,325 --> 00:33:47,159
they just went nuts.
852
00:33:48,202 --> 00:33:51,705
They went crazy
when they saw this test shot.
853
00:33:51,789 --> 00:33:53,624
We all went, "Phew."
854
00:33:53,916 --> 00:33:55,125
[Joe] The crowd went crazy.
855
00:33:55,793 --> 00:33:58,003
It was one of the greatest screenings
I've ever been to.
856
00:33:58,087 --> 00:33:59,213
[Sheldon] It made us feel...
857
00:33:59,755 --> 00:34:00,589
so good.
858
00:34:00,672 --> 00:34:01,757
There was a sense that...
859
00:34:02,716 --> 00:34:04,093
we're in on something
860
00:34:04,176 --> 00:34:06,428
and it's going to
change the world a little bit.
861
00:34:06,512 --> 00:34:09,473
[narrator] Well, for Ivan
and everyone else working on the movie,
862
00:34:09,556 --> 00:34:12,392
the world was definitely about to change,
863
00:34:12,476 --> 00:34:14,269
and probably more than just a little bit.
864
00:34:14,978 --> 00:34:16,105
Let's put it this way,
865
00:34:16,188 --> 00:34:19,942
if this Twinkie resembled the amount
of work they had already accomplished,
866
00:34:20,776 --> 00:34:22,986
the size of the Twinkie they had left...
867
00:34:23,070 --> 00:34:24,154
was scary.
868
00:34:24,238 --> 00:34:26,365
It would be a Twinkie 35 feet long,
869
00:34:26,448 --> 00:34:28,659
weighing approximately 600 pounds.
870
00:34:28,742 --> 00:34:31,578
Ivan decides he wants
all these extra shots.
871
00:34:31,662 --> 00:34:32,830
[coughs]
872
00:34:32,913 --> 00:34:34,081
That's a big Twinkie.
873
00:34:34,665 --> 00:34:37,459
So I met him in the parking lot
with a samurai sword.
874
00:34:39,002 --> 00:34:39,962
What?
875
00:34:40,045 --> 00:34:41,797
[narrator]
The screening happened in March,
876
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,632
and the movie's release date...
877
00:34:43,715 --> 00:34:45,008
...was going to be June 8th.
878
00:34:45,092 --> 00:34:46,677
[narrator] Only three months away.
879
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,971
How on earth would they get this done?
880
00:34:49,471 --> 00:34:51,723
Let's ignore the problems,
let's just keep going.
881
00:34:51,807 --> 00:34:54,810
[narrator] And that's what they did,
starting with the effects,
882
00:34:54,893 --> 00:34:57,896
some of which they'd filmed
right there and then on set.
883
00:34:57,980 --> 00:35:00,399
A lot of the things we did
were live effects.
884
00:35:00,482 --> 00:35:02,276
[narrator] Like this shot. Just wires.
885
00:35:02,359 --> 00:35:04,278
[Ivan]
It was really old-fashioned trickery.
886
00:35:04,361 --> 00:35:05,362
[narrator] And this one.
887
00:35:05,445 --> 00:35:07,364
There's a guy behind there,
blowing a straw.
888
00:35:08,740 --> 00:35:11,034
So when the cards start flying,
we really did all that
889
00:35:11,118 --> 00:35:11,952
and it was complete.
890
00:35:12,244 --> 00:35:14,079
[narrator] So, unlike these effects,
891
00:35:14,163 --> 00:35:16,748
Boss Films really had to get cracking
on the rest.
892
00:35:16,832 --> 00:35:20,210
I can't stress enough
how tight the schedule was.
893
00:35:20,294 --> 00:35:24,046
We put together the scenes
that had the special effects shots
894
00:35:24,130 --> 00:35:26,048
as fast as possible.
895
00:35:26,132 --> 00:35:28,801
The editorial department
then sends us the scene
896
00:35:28,885 --> 00:35:31,304
then we order the optical elements.
897
00:35:31,679 --> 00:35:33,764
I would design it,
do the original work on it,
898
00:35:33,848 --> 00:35:34,891
then hand it off to him.
899
00:35:34,974 --> 00:35:37,310
We would just shoot and send,
shoot and send...
900
00:35:37,393 --> 00:35:40,980
It's an incredible knot
of creative activity.
901
00:35:41,063 --> 00:35:44,275
[narrator] While Richard and Boss Films
tried to untangle that knot,
902
00:35:44,442 --> 00:35:46,736
Ivan was tied up with another problem.
903
00:35:46,819 --> 00:35:49,322
-We needed a song.
-[narrator] But not just any song.
904
00:35:49,405 --> 00:35:51,282
A song that had the right rhythm,
905
00:35:51,365 --> 00:35:52,742
the right bop and beat to it.
906
00:35:52,825 --> 00:35:55,286
[narrator] To get a song like that,
who you going to call?
907
00:35:55,369 --> 00:35:56,829
Ray Parker, Jr.
908
00:35:56,913 --> 00:35:57,997
[narrator] Great idea.
909
00:35:58,080 --> 00:35:59,498
[Ray] I met with Ivan Reitman.
910
00:35:59,582 --> 00:36:00,875
He was very adamant about
911
00:36:00,958 --> 00:36:04,503
the word "Ghostbusters" has to be in song.
912
00:36:04,837 --> 00:36:06,756
-[narrator] Too easy.
-It's impossible.
913
00:36:06,881 --> 00:36:09,467
[narrator] Huh. Well, he'd really have to
figure it out soon, because...
914
00:36:09,550 --> 00:36:11,844
[Ivan] It was now the beginning
of the final mix,
915
00:36:11,928 --> 00:36:14,889
and, of course, the movie was
coming out shortly thereafter.
916
00:36:14,972 --> 00:36:16,807
I'm worn out, tired.
917
00:36:16,891 --> 00:36:19,060
The music came fairly easy,
918
00:36:19,143 --> 00:36:21,687
but I got no lyric idea.
919
00:36:21,771 --> 00:36:24,065
What am I going to do?
The messenger's at the door,
920
00:36:24,148 --> 00:36:25,107
and he's waiting.
921
00:36:25,191 --> 00:36:26,150
I've got to do something.
922
00:36:26,692 --> 00:36:29,904
And no matter how I sing it,
it just didn't work.
923
00:36:29,987 --> 00:36:32,949
♪ Ooh, the Ghostbusters... ♪
924
00:36:33,074 --> 00:36:34,700
It just is not a good word.
925
00:36:34,784 --> 00:36:35,743
Ghostbusters.
926
00:36:35,826 --> 00:36:38,621
I remember the guys standing there
927
00:36:38,704 --> 00:36:40,164
with the phone number underneath.
928
00:36:40,665 --> 00:36:42,041
And I guess at 4:00 in the morning,
929
00:36:42,124 --> 00:36:45,503
they look sort of like
the bug guys you see on TV.
930
00:36:45,586 --> 00:36:47,964
And each one of those
commercials were saying,
931
00:36:48,047 --> 00:36:50,466
you know, "If you got a problem
with the drains, call us..."
932
00:36:51,133 --> 00:36:53,302
And I thought, "My gosh, that's it."
933
00:36:54,178 --> 00:36:55,429
Who you gonna call?
934
00:36:56,681 --> 00:36:57,640
Ghostbusters.
935
00:36:58,140 --> 00:36:59,517
♪ Ghostbusters ♪
936
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:00,977
[Ghostbusters theme song playing]
937
00:37:01,143 --> 00:37:03,062
Make a copy of it on the cassette,
938
00:37:03,229 --> 00:37:05,606
give it to the messenger,
now let him in the door,
939
00:37:05,690 --> 00:37:07,275
and he takes the tape and he's off.
940
00:37:07,358 --> 00:37:09,318
[narrator]
With just a few weeks until the release,
941
00:37:09,402 --> 00:37:11,028
it looked like they were all set.
942
00:37:11,696 --> 00:37:12,697
What about the Twinkie?
943
00:37:12,780 --> 00:37:13,698
[narrator] Oh, yeah.
944
00:37:13,781 --> 00:37:14,907
[John] We would shoot tests
945
00:37:14,991 --> 00:37:17,743
and send them over to see
if Ivan liked where we were going
946
00:37:17,827 --> 00:37:19,787
and then he just took them,
put them in the movie.
947
00:37:20,371 --> 00:37:22,748
There are some funky shots
in Ghostbusters.
948
00:37:23,332 --> 00:37:25,584
We just didn't have time to finesse them.
949
00:37:25,668 --> 00:37:26,627
Go on to something else.
950
00:37:26,711 --> 00:37:27,878
It was really intense.
951
00:37:28,504 --> 00:37:30,756
Don't make the shot too long.
952
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:31,882
Twenty frames.
953
00:37:31,966 --> 00:37:34,677
We don't want the audience
to see how it was done.
954
00:37:37,555 --> 00:37:39,307
[Ray] Ivan Reitman calls me
at 3:00 in the morning
955
00:37:39,390 --> 00:37:42,018
and he's saying, "I've already taken
the cassette you gave me,
956
00:37:42,101 --> 00:37:44,603
and flew it into the 35 millimeter matte.
957
00:37:44,687 --> 00:37:48,274
About 80% of the shots in Ghostbusters
were take ones.
958
00:37:48,357 --> 00:37:51,068
We did not have time to do extra takes.
959
00:37:51,152 --> 00:37:51,986
We just kept going.
960
00:37:52,069 --> 00:37:54,613
It was almost to the last moment.
961
00:37:54,697 --> 00:37:56,615
[John] Shoot and send, shoot and send...
962
00:37:56,699 --> 00:37:58,242
Twenty-four hours a day,
seven days a week...
963
00:37:58,326 --> 00:38:00,202
Pass after pass after pass...
964
00:38:00,911 --> 00:38:03,664
[narrator]
And with that... Ghostbusters was done.
965
00:38:04,290 --> 00:38:05,124
Close enough.
966
00:38:05,541 --> 00:38:08,627
[narrator]
After ten frantic months, they'd done it.
967
00:38:08,711 --> 00:38:10,338
And as the dust settled,
968
00:38:10,963 --> 00:38:13,299
there was still one monkey wrench
in the works.
969
00:38:13,424 --> 00:38:14,967
[theme music playing]
970
00:38:15,092 --> 00:38:17,428
[narrator] All through production
they'd failed dismally
971
00:38:17,511 --> 00:38:20,097
to clear the TV show name
rights from Filmation.
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00:38:20,681 --> 00:38:24,518
Which was coincidentally
a production company owned by Universal,
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00:38:24,602 --> 00:38:25,936
which as it happened,
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00:38:26,020 --> 00:38:27,772
was now run by this guy.
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00:38:27,855 --> 00:38:29,857
[Peter] Call it... fate.
976
00:38:29,940 --> 00:38:31,067
Call it luck.
977
00:38:31,484 --> 00:38:32,860
Call it karma.
978
00:38:32,943 --> 00:38:35,279
[narrator]
Well now, they could call it Ghostbusters.
979
00:38:35,363 --> 00:38:36,906
It was serendipitous.
980
00:38:36,989 --> 00:38:38,240
I happened to go there
981
00:38:38,324 --> 00:38:40,826
and I was able to say, "Make the deal.
982
00:38:41,494 --> 00:38:42,536
Give them the title."
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00:38:42,870 --> 00:38:43,996
[narrator] Just in time, too.
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00:38:44,746 --> 00:38:47,415
What an exciting night
for show business this is.
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00:38:47,499 --> 00:38:49,084
[narrator] June 8th 1984,
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00:38:49,167 --> 00:38:52,170
as promised,
Ghostbusters hit the big screen.
987
00:38:52,253 --> 00:38:54,089
[Karen] I remember going to the premiere,
988
00:38:54,547 --> 00:38:56,299
and it was just really cute.
989
00:38:56,383 --> 00:38:58,134
The guys were very proud.
990
00:38:58,718 --> 00:39:00,512
They knew they had a winner
on their hands.
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00:39:00,595 --> 00:39:01,888
[narrator] And the rest is history.
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00:39:01,971 --> 00:39:04,724
We opened and we stayed at number one
for 13 weeks,
993
00:39:04,808 --> 00:39:06,351
or something crazy like that.
994
00:39:06,434 --> 00:39:07,936
[narrator]
And while the movie busted records,
995
00:39:08,019 --> 00:39:10,313
the record was off the charts,
996
00:39:10,897 --> 00:39:13,441
and was even nominated
for an Academy Award.
997
00:39:13,525 --> 00:39:14,818
Ray Parker, Jr.
998
00:39:15,276 --> 00:39:17,487
On TV, the record flew up the charts.
999
00:39:17,570 --> 00:39:18,571
It was just unbelievable.
1000
00:39:18,655 --> 00:39:21,658
Dogs and cats living together.
Mass hysteria.
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00:39:24,202 --> 00:39:28,748
[narrator] Worldwide, Ghostbusters
grossed nearly $300 million...
1002
00:39:28,832 --> 00:39:31,084
and created a marketing frenzy.
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00:39:31,793 --> 00:39:33,253
Ghostbusters napkins, Dave.
1004
00:39:33,336 --> 00:39:34,587
[Dave] Let's see. There you go.
1005
00:39:34,671 --> 00:39:36,005
[applause]
1006
00:39:36,172 --> 00:39:37,841
[narrator] And surprise, surprise,
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00:39:37,924 --> 00:39:40,093
bustin' even made Coke feel good.
1008
00:39:40,635 --> 00:39:42,929
From cereals to sequels,
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00:39:43,596 --> 00:39:46,307
-animations, computer games...
-[computer voice] Ghostbusters!
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00:39:46,391 --> 00:39:49,269
[narrator] ...and, of course, toys.
But that's another series.
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00:39:50,270 --> 00:39:52,147
For everyone involved in this comedy
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00:39:52,689 --> 00:39:53,982
largely about death,
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00:39:54,065 --> 00:39:56,776
it seems this movie might live forever,
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00:39:56,860 --> 00:39:57,944
and that's pretty good
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00:39:58,027 --> 00:40:00,530
for a simple going into business story,
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00:40:00,613 --> 00:40:02,824
set in the greatest city on earth.
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00:40:02,907 --> 00:40:04,284
[Ivan] The idea of shooting in New York,
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00:40:04,367 --> 00:40:06,619
was this very, very special thing.
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00:40:06,744 --> 00:40:08,037
-Perfect place, huh?
-Beautiful.
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00:40:08,121 --> 00:40:10,248
There's something about the people
and the architecture
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00:40:10,331 --> 00:40:13,460
that were really important
to telling this story.
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00:40:13,543 --> 00:40:14,377
[Dan] Yeah.
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Most famous apartment building
in Manhattan.
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00:40:17,547 --> 00:40:19,132
[Ivan] I love the surfaces of it.
1025
00:40:19,215 --> 00:40:21,593
The rooftop was perfect
for building our temple.
1026
00:40:21,676 --> 00:40:23,761
And if you go into the park
right over there
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00:40:23,845 --> 00:40:25,722
-you can get a shot of this place...
-[Dan] Yeah.
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[Ivan] ...surrounded by trees.
1029
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[faint screaming]
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Remember the church
that the Marshmallow Man
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00:40:33,062 --> 00:40:33,897
steps up on...
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Nobody steps on a church in my town.
1033
00:40:36,191 --> 00:40:39,819
[Dan] Can't believe it's been 34 years
since we were last here. Look.
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[Ivan] Look what we've got here.
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[Peter] Hey...
we should stay here tonight.
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Sleep here. You know, to try it out.
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This place is great.
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00:40:48,286 --> 00:40:50,747
There's no firehouse like it
anywhere in the five boroughs.
1039
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It's got that beautiful cornice
at the top.
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[Peter] You can't park that here.
1041
00:40:56,252 --> 00:40:57,962
[Ivan] We drove the car out of here.
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I remember that.
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00:40:59,923 --> 00:41:01,883
-[Dan] This is a working firehouse.
-[Ivan] Yeah.
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[Dan] We blew the roof off it.
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[Ivan] It was fun.
1046
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-[Dan] What a magnificent building.
-[Ivan] This was covered in scaffolding.
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You know, the first shot of the movie...
1048
00:41:13,978 --> 00:41:15,563
is right on this guy's face.
1049
00:41:26,241 --> 00:41:27,075
Oh, wow.
1050
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I was present at an undersea,
unexplained mass sponge migration.
1051
00:41:30,578 --> 00:41:32,455
[Dan] There would obviously
be a ghost for sure.
1052
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This library's got a few.
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[Ivan chuckles]
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[Peter humming, muttering]
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[Ivan] Harold, God bless him,
1056
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I think he was just about here somewhere
with the stethoscope.
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[Peter moaning]
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[loud thud]
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00:41:44,801 --> 00:41:46,010
[Ivan] He was so serious.
1060
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You know,
he had that sort of really dry style
1061
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in the way he performed.
1062
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This is big, Peter.
This is very big.
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That's definitely something here.
1064
00:41:53,226 --> 00:41:55,562
Egon, this reminds me of the time
1065
00:41:55,645 --> 00:41:57,605
you tried to drill a hole
through your head. Remember that?
1066
00:41:57,689 --> 00:41:59,357
That would have worked
if you hadn't stopped me.
1067
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:00,942
-Yeah, I miss Harold.
-Oh...
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Yeah, absolutely.
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00:42:04,946 --> 00:42:08,282
[Ivan] Harold's role in Ghostbusters
was very, very important.
1070
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What he did with his hair
and what he did with his voice.
1071
00:42:11,868 --> 00:42:13,120
I looked at the trap, Ray.
1072
00:42:13,704 --> 00:42:16,540
Even though he was
sort of the nerdy character,
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00:42:16,623 --> 00:42:19,084
I've gotten messages from people saying,
1074
00:42:19,167 --> 00:42:21,128
"I've identified with Egon.
1075
00:42:21,211 --> 00:42:23,839
I was the shy, awkward, nerdy kid,
1076
00:42:23,922 --> 00:42:28,051
and here he was on screen,
telling me it was cool to be a scientist."
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I collect spores, molds and fungus.
1078
00:42:31,388 --> 00:42:35,475
Harold Ramis turned out
to be like a brother I never had.
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I enjoyed Harold enormously
because we laughed the whole time.
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00:42:41,940 --> 00:42:42,941
And um...
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his intelligence was so impressive.
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[narrator]
In the years that followed Ghostbusters,
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00:42:49,865 --> 00:42:52,409
Harold Ramis continued
to write hit comedies,
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00:42:52,826 --> 00:42:57,664
and in 1993, reunited with
his longtime collaborator, Bill Murray
1085
00:42:57,748 --> 00:43:00,000
when he wrote and directed
Groundhog Day.
1086
00:43:00,375 --> 00:43:04,087
Nobody really knows what happened
between my dad and Bill,
1087
00:43:04,171 --> 00:43:07,424
but when they were working
on Groundhog Day, it was difficult.
1088
00:43:08,175 --> 00:43:10,093
They just were not friends after that.
1089
00:43:10,385 --> 00:43:11,803
Bill just...
1090
00:43:11,887 --> 00:43:13,305
you know, would never...
1091
00:43:13,388 --> 00:43:14,765
sort of, um...
1092
00:43:15,140 --> 00:43:16,725
respond to my dad or...
1093
00:43:17,059 --> 00:43:19,645
acknowledge him, and it was...
You know, it was hard.
1094
00:43:20,228 --> 00:43:23,398
But, you know, he did dream about him
from time to time
1095
00:43:23,482 --> 00:43:25,150
and I think missed, you know...
1096
00:43:26,068 --> 00:43:28,028
what had been good
about their friendship...
1097
00:43:28,111 --> 00:43:29,237
in the-- in the past.
1098
00:43:32,866 --> 00:43:35,494
Towards the end of my dad's illness, um,
1099
00:43:35,786 --> 00:43:38,080
he was at home in Glencoe, Illinois,
1100
00:43:38,163 --> 00:43:40,874
and Bill showed up
at the local police precinct
1101
00:43:40,957 --> 00:43:43,502
because he didn't know
exactly where my dad lived,
1102
00:43:43,585 --> 00:43:45,337
but he knew he wanted to see him.
1103
00:43:47,589 --> 00:43:50,384
So he went to the police and said,
"Take me to Harold."
1104
00:43:50,676 --> 00:43:53,303
And they drove him over
with a police escort.
1105
00:43:55,389 --> 00:43:58,225
Egon, I'm going to take back
some of the things I said about you.
1106
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:00,977
[Violet] He and my dad sat together
for a few hours.
1107
00:44:01,144 --> 00:44:02,771
You've-- You've earned it.
1108
00:44:02,854 --> 00:44:04,856
[Violet]
You know, they got to make their peace
1109
00:44:04,940 --> 00:44:06,900
right before my dad passed away.
1110
00:44:15,701 --> 00:44:18,245
[narrator]
The legacy these Ghostbusters have left
1111
00:44:18,328 --> 00:44:20,372
has influenced a generation,
1112
00:44:20,747 --> 00:44:23,458
but for Dan Aykroyd, he was influenced
1113
00:44:23,542 --> 00:44:25,961
by generations of Aykroyds before him.
1114
00:44:26,044 --> 00:44:28,380
What it did for me
was to bring the research
1115
00:44:28,463 --> 00:44:30,006
that my family had been doing
1116
00:44:30,882 --> 00:44:33,885
since the 1920s
into a complete full circle.
1117
00:44:33,969 --> 00:44:37,681
It was the completion of the research
that the Aykroyd family started.
1118
00:44:37,764 --> 00:44:39,224
It was the ultimate result.
1119
00:44:40,934 --> 00:44:42,728
[narrator] And for Ivan Reitman,
1120
00:44:42,853 --> 00:44:45,564
he really was the right man for the job...
1121
00:44:46,189 --> 00:44:47,149
and then some.
1122
00:44:47,232 --> 00:44:49,860
We were very cocky
going into making this film.
1123
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,112
There was a sense
that it was a great story.
1124
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,824
And perfectly told in a great city.
1125
00:44:59,077 --> 00:45:00,746
I'm really proud of what I did.
1126
00:45:01,204 --> 00:45:02,247
And, um...
1127
00:45:02,664 --> 00:45:04,082
it's lovely to be back.
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