After rewatching Ghostbusters Afterlife I had an idea for Pitches Be Crazy.
Ghostbusters Afterlife has a number of end credits scenes. It feels like there was some studio meddling, the little Stay Puft marshmallows are a solid example (I talk about it my Ghostbusters Afterlife pod and blog). But, anyway… The last end credits scene seems to set up future movies. The movie, and the 2016 movie, has a title card for Ghost Corps. Ghost Corps, hmmm…
How about having a Ghostbusters movie set in European capitals? Sounds good, eh? Or even better a TV show with a couple of episodes creating a 3 or 4 episode arc in key places. Does Sony have a streaming platform?
So the first arc…
Episode 1-2
Winston Zeddemore arrives in London to set up a branch of the Ghost Corps in the UK. In an increasingly secular Britain there is an abundance of old religious venues left to ruin. He buys up an old Church as the new base of operations. I just think it would be cool to have Ghostbusters in an old English church with a spire. Regardless, it's somewhere other than an old fire station.
This run is largely Winston building the team and the UK corps. Winston goes to Cambridge to try and get an Egon Sepngler type genius character. He gets a fanatic who has his own website on the local paranormal and supernatural, basically a Podcast from Afterlife only more filled out, and an adult. He gets another member, a hands on everyman, probably comedic. Look If i was running a studio I’d be looking a Simon Pegg and Nick Frost type thing (although Nick Frost did that Amazon show, maybe I should watch that before finishing this). Basically cast good up and coming British actors, casting from each of the four UK countries could be fun. Or bring in a special guest Scot for an episode in Scotland, a Welsh actor for a Welsh story, an Ulsterman for Northern Ireland etc or not.
Ghost Corps UK.
Imagine an episode where the UK Ghostbusters chase after the spirit of Jack the Ripper.
Imagine an episode where the UK Ghostbusters are on, basically, the Wicker Man island hunting Pagan deities.
Imagine an episode where the UK Ghostbusters are exorcising the demons from the British Museum.
Imagine an episode where the UK Ghostbusters go to Whitby and have a Dracula type story. Imagine an episode where the UK Ghostbusters go after any British legend or folk story. The British Isles has legends going back through time, there are wars, disasters and atrocities deep in the history of the UK.
I'd watch a season of that.
Do a season in different areas, Paris, Rome, Sarajevo, Romania (literally any Eastern European region could have a plethora of stories) anywhere different, unique or interesting. Imagine all the cool Ecto vehicles; classic British motorbikes like Triumph or Royal Enfield, Kamaz or Tatra Trucks in Eastern Europe, stylish Italian sports cars (a Lamborghini with Proton packs) a Ural motorcycle with a portable containment unit in the side car.
Look the cartoons did it, so why not do a TV show.
If movies all Sony wants the how about this idea...
Ghostbusters meets Men In Black. Think about it. Two organisations working outside or above the government. Now the problem comes in bringing these two units together. I would need to be in the US, largely because the extra-terrestrial has a larger base there. So there would need to be another branch of the Ghost Corps, like a West Coast Corps. The 2016 movie seems to be outside the Afterlife and the 1980s movies, so they will probably be no use. Shame because some of that movie could be redeemed here. I know the comics did a crossover with the 1984 team, the 2016 team and the Real Ghostbusters cartoon team. Easy for a comic book, less easy for live action mediums.
The easy choice is the ghost of the Roswell Alien whose body is in Area 51. Men in Black and Ghostbusters crossing over for a legitimate reason, easy, right? Imagine a haunted Area 51!
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