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What The Original Ghostbusters 3 Would've Looked Like (& Why It Didn't Happen)


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ADRIENNE TYLER FEB 19, 2020
Years before the upcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife was announced, there were plans for a third Ghostbusters film that would have been a proper

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It was a movie that should've been made years ago.

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To my understanding, the Ghostbusters game from 2009 basically used the script from the Hellbent film.

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It did; the game was essentially Ghostbusters 3 in spirit.

It's a great game, besides; I'd definitely recommend it for Ghostbusters fans.

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Yeah, it is a lot of fun! I played it back in 2012 I think on Ps3.

Had a blast seeing all the old characters again. It was a really well put together video game.

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Reportedly Bill Murray didn't want to do a third movie, he didn't like the scripts GB3(even shredded one of the scripts) and fell out with Harold Ramis during Groundhog Day and didn't reconcile until Ramis became ill and died, a third movie couldn't be greenlit without his involvement because he was a bigger star than the other guys and audience's expectations were demanding that he and everyone else be in it.

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