Brian Lynch is an accomplished writer in Hollywood, to say the least, having penned Minions as well as The Secret Life of Pets and its upcoming sequel. On Twitter this past weekend, Lynch tweeted that he at one point had started writing a spec script for a new Ghostbusters sequel, totally for fun and entirely unauthorized, which he says he got halfway through.
Again, this is just a bit of “fan fiction” fun, but we thought you’d dig it given the source.
Lynch detailed…
“It began with the old guard trying to bust a ghost and barely surviving it. They realize they are too old and each one promises to search out a suitable replacement. Ray chooses a super fan intern who has the GB logo shaved in the back of his head. Winston chooses his genius niece. Egon chooses his socially awkward lab assistant who hasn’t talked to a human in years. Venkman’s choice, who was the lead in the movie, was his favorite student from his college days, who is brilliant but lazy and now substitute teaches. I pictured Janeane Garafalo.”
Ray trains them. But they mostly have to just guard the containment unit because an international ghost busting high tech rip off called Undead Unlimited is where most people go for paranormal eliminations. The firehouse has been converted into a Planet Hollywood esque Ghostbusters restaurant. The villain was the head of Undead Unlimited, who wasn’t just trapping millions of ghosts worldwide, but harnessing their power.”
“Anyway, I liked it. I especially liked that unlike the majority of the original GBs, this team didn’t know each other and didn’t start out liking each other but became close as the script went on. Oh. One more thing. I had a general meeting with a Ghostbusters producer and I told him I wrote a Ghostbusters spec and he said lots of people have, and he hopes I didn’t explain who Slimer was before he died because 75% of them do. Mine did not.”
Sounds like the Ghostbusters 3 we all wanted, eh? You can check out the full thread below.
One time I just started writing a new GHOSTBUSTERS on spec for fun. I got halfway through.
— Brian Lynch (@BrianLynch) October 22, 2018