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‘Minions’ and ‘Secret Life of Pets’ Writer Details ‘Ghostbusters 3’ Script He Once Wrote for Fun

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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.

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Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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‘Abigail’ on Track for a Better Opening Weekend Than Universal’s Previous Two Vampire Attempts

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April 19, 2024

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In the wake of Leigh Whannell’s Invisible Man back in 2020, Universal has been struggling to achieve further box office success with their Universal Monsters brand. Even in the early days of the pandemic, Invisible Man scared up $144 million at the worldwide box office, while last year’s Universal Monsters: Dracula movies The Last Voyage of the Demeter and Renfield didn’t even approach that number when you COMBINE their individual box office hauls.

The horror-comedy Renfield came along first in April 2023, ending its run with just $26 million. The period piece Last Voyage of the Demeter ended its own run with a mere $21 million.

But Universal is trying again with their ballerina vampire movie Abigail this weekend, the latest bloodbath directed by the filmmakers known as Radio Silence (Ready or Not, Scream).

Unlike Demeter and Renfield, the early reviews for Abigail are incredibly strong, with our own Meagan Navarro calling the film “savagely inventive in terms of its vampiric gore,” ultimately “offering a thrill ride with sharp, pointy teeth.” Read her full review here.

That early buzz – coupled with some excellent trailers – should drive Abigail to moderate box office success, the film already scaring up $1 million in Thursday previews last night. Variety notes that Abigail is currently on track to enjoy a $12 million – $15 million opening weekend, which would smash Renfield ($8 million) and Demeter’s ($6 million) opening weekends.

Working to Abigail‘s advantage is the film’s reported $28 million production budget, making it a more affordable box office bet for Universal than the two aforementioned movies.

Stay tuned for more box office reporting in the coming days.

In Abigail, “After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.”

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