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Ghostbusters Sequel: Everything We Know

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Wednesday, November 30, 2016 - 11:54

Despite suffering through probably the most tedious online backlash in recent memory, Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot might be getting a sequel after all… at least according to original director and long-term franchise Godfather, Ivan Reitman.

Last we heard, Ghostbusters’ so-so return at the box office was thought to have torpedoed any potential follow-up, but according to Reitman, hopes for a sequel aren’t dead in the water just yet. “There's going to be many other Ghostbusters movies," confirmed the director. “They're just in development right now.”

Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy and friends will be making a return. At one stage there was a lot of buzz about a male-centric reboot with Channing Tatum and Chris Pratt, so could that plan be picked up again?

That said, hopefully the girls will get another go-around, particularly if Feig can be convinced to get back on board. However, after the social media meltdown that greeted the first film, it might not be right at the top of his to-do list… come on Paul, we want more!

30 Things You Didn't Know About Ghostbusters

That advert for the Ghostbusters at the beginning of the film? Director Ivan Reitman re-cut it and had the guys hold up a 1-800 number, which if called, would get you through to a recorded message of Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd.

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Seeing as John Belushi was supposed to appear in the film, Dan Aykroyd called Slimer 'the ghost of John Belushi' on set.

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Oh and Slimer himself? Well, he wasn't actually called that until the animated series. The cast called him 'Onion Head' during the filming of the first movie, because he smelled so bad.

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In the hit theme song, the bit where everyone screams “Ghostbusters!” was actually Ray Parker Jr.'s girlfriend and her mates.

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Ramis and Aykroyd were a right old pair of cards. They once weighed down Bill Murray's proton pack by 40lbs, because they thought he was funnier when he was a bit wound up.

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William Atherton complained that the movie ruined his life. Not only did people hate his character so much that they heckled him in the street, but it probably also in a roundabout way led to him starring in Bio-Dome.

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That fancy probe thing that Venkman used in Dana's flat is a real-life thing. It's called a United Technologies/Bacharach 300 Series 'Sniffer', which is used to find dangerous gas leaks. In this case however, it's obviously being used to find ghost farts.

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We all know that the Ghostbusters' cool backpacks are called proton packs, but did you know that the term is not actually used in the first film? They say it for the first time halfway through Ghostbusters II.

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The guns for the proton packs were originally little magic wands in the storyboards. However, the producers thought that it would be too much like those Harry Potter films that came out 17 years later, so they changed them.

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That childhood-ruining monster in the library was originally even more frightening. As they wanted the film to appeal to kids, they made another version and instead used the original a year later in the horror film Fright Night.

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Dan Aykroyd wrote the film, at least partly based on true events. He reckoned he saw ghosts when he was a kid, his granddad was a mystic and his dad wrote a book about séances.

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The gross, sticky substance that explodes out of the Stay Puft man wasn't actually marshmallow. It was shaving cream. Over 50 gallons were dumped on William Atherton.

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The Ghostbusters' HQ was a firehouse set, but that same firehouse set was then fiddled about with a bit, and used as the mechanic shop in The Mask years later.

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The original title for the film was Ghost Smashers, which is a pretty terrible title when you think about it.

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Huey Lewis and The News were asked to pen the theme song for Ghostbusters, but they declined. Instead, Ray Parker Jr. ripped-off their song 'I Want A New Drug', so Huey Lewis and The News sued.

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Ron Jeremy actually appears in a crowd scene in the movie. He later went on to star in This Ain't Ghostbusters XXX.

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Ray Parker Jr. was having a bit of trouble coming up with a good hook for the theme tune, when at 4.30am one morning, he saw an advert for a drain company that inspired him to write the “Who you gonna call?” line.

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In the early scene when they open the drawers in the library and there's all that slime in there, it's not real slime. It's actually Methyl Silos, which is a Chinese food starch.

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After Alien, Sigourney Weaver wanted to do a comedy, and to persuade Ivan Reitman to cast her she actually writhed about the casting couch and growled at him like a dog.

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John Candy was originally up for the part of Louis Tully. In the end he declined it because he wasn't offered enough money, and Harold Ramis and Aykroyd didn't like his ideas for the character – he wanted him to have a German accent and a bunch of dogs.

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That horrible voice that the demonic Dana (or Zuul) does – the one that sounds like a bad X Factor audition – was actually performed by Ivan Reitman.

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Harold Ramis only wanted to write the film, but when he realised that nobody could play the part of Egon better than him, he starred in it too.

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The giant Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was actually inspired by a security guard that Ivan Reitman met once.

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The Ghostbusters' original car was black, but when everyone realised that you wouldn't be able to see it in any of the night scenes, they painted it white.

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The original car also had magic powers, including the ability to disappear, like that car James Bond has in Die Another Day. However, the Ghostbusters crew realised that that would be the worst thing in the history of everything, so they scrapped it.

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Aykroyd's original script was set in the future. However, the budget would have been too high, so they set it in modern times instead.

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In the library scene, when the Ghostbusters ask the librarian about a history of mental illness in her family, she answers with the info that her uncle believed he was St. Jerome. Guess what St. Jerome was the patron saint of? Librarians!

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Already a way into the production, the filmmakers found out that there was already something called Ghostbusters. It was a kids' TV show from the '70s and they ended up having to pay for the rights to the name.

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In the montage where the Ghostbusters are all running about New York, they were actually doing it illegally, without a permit. In one scene you can even see a security guard try and chase them.

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Remember Debbie Gibson? Probably not, but she did that 'Electric Youth' song, if you're bothered. Either way, she makes a cameo in the film too – in the scene where Rick Moranis is being chased through a restaurant.

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- By George Wales @GeorgeWales85

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