Would you guys have preferred Max Landis' Ghostbusters 3?

Would you guys have preferred Max Landis' Ghostbusters 3?

>We start in the 1920s, where we witness cult leader Ivo Shandor proclaim the prophecy of the two comings of Gozer, one a failure, and the second thirty years later, to destroy the world. One of his followers speaks out, and is killed for his insubordination…becoming the spirit who is eventually known to us as Slimer.

>Slam to 2016.

>Ghostbusters was a national franchise, privately owned and government subsidized. But the lack of extradimensional invaders meant that there was ultimately a very limited amount of ghosts to bust, and the very optimistic national expansion slowly depleted the Buster’s funds (“Did the Atlanta chapter really need a helicopter?”). The Ghostbusters remain iconic, but despite the merchandise, cartoon show, etc, the company itself is bankrupt, on the verge of collapse.

>Only two houses remain open; there hasn’t been a legitimate call in more than ten years. The original Busters are for the most part long gone; Venkman took the money and disappeared into seclusion, Winston Zeddemore quit the busters in 1991 and has since become a Richard Branson style billionaire, and Egon Spengler accidentally ascended to a higher plane of existence, leaving only the increasingly delusional Ray Stantz, who has run the company into the ground.

>The New York Team is now comprised of Ted Becker, an earnest sweetheart living a dream born as he watched the Busters defeat Gozer as a little boy in 1985, Veronica Spengler, Egon’s Very Egon-Like daughter who feels in turns respectful and resentful of the hole left in her world, Brian Quaid, a fast talking breezily confident self-proclaimed psychic with a chip on his shoulder, and Irwin Oberstein, a gearhead MIT kick-out metalhead who sees the Ghostbusters as the ultimate way to explore his punk rock ideas about quantum physics.

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>Things are bad for the team; along with financial pressure and a sense of aimless ennui, they’re being protested and harassed by a group called Free Spirits, a new age movement that believes the Ghostbusters keeping their catches indefinitely trapped constitutes a human rights violation.

>When Winston Zeddemore approaches Becker about convincing Ray to let him buy the Ghostbusters to repurpose the technology, Becker turns him down. Becker is committed to the cause, and believes that one day the world will need them again, even as his personal life has begun to fall apart, with a disapproving fiance and a disappointed father. They thought he was going to be a scientist. Instead, he’s a “curiosity,” relegated to repeatedly giving people tours of the Ghostbuster’s firehouse.

>He’s not the only one of the New York Busters with a problem; Oberstein the gearhead is being repeatedly approached by douchey scouts from huge tech companies trying to poach him. Oberstein is torn; he doesn’t want to leave the Ghostbusters, but the money they’re offering is too good. He approaches Becker about wanting to amp up the proton packs; “Really take us to Mount Olympus,” but a frustrated Becker turns him down, and Oberstein considers quitting. It would be giving up on a dream…but maybe the metalhead has to grow up? He’s not sure, and it’s bumming him out.

>But over in Los Angeles, trouble is brewing. The LA chapter of three is essentially the shiny “I Fucking Love Science” durrh we-are-cool-geeks NERD PRIDE reboot of the Ghostbusters, and has been eeking out a profit through public appearances and huge parties. These are the bullshit lookatmelookatme scientists, who, while not TERRIBLE people, definitely suck enough to earn an eye-roll.

>The LA team is approached by a man named John Reiser, from the United States Government’s top-secret Moebius Initiative. The initiative has a simple goal, complexly stated: the capture, reformatting, indoctrination and assetizing of ectoplasmic lifeforms; long story short these crazy fuckers want to WEAPONIZE ghosts. They want to buy out the Busters and use their tech for this sinister purpose. LA is on board for this (they need the money), but Reiser demands a government controlled test run of the technology, which has been out of use for a while.

>Big problem: no ghosts. The LA team hasn’t caught a spook in their entire time as Ghostbusters. The LA busters head to New York to try to convince the NYC chapter to loan them an old ghost from the containment unit.

>As financial and emotional pressures increase on the busters in New York, things are getting tense, especially between the team and their loopy leader, Ray Stantz, who’s clearly out of touch and desperate for the good old days. Ray just doesn’t have the answers they need; he misses the other Ghostbusters desperately, and longs for the moment when he, a lifelong outcast, felt loved and useful. Covered in Marshmallow. A hero.

>A frontman for The Free Spirits, a goodnatured, surprisingly intelligent and open minded guy named Dante, befriends Veronica Spengler, and the two have an instant chemistry, which is revealed to be at least partially fuelded by a Free Spirits plan to infiltrate the firehouse and free the ghosts. Eco-terrorism-cum-ecto-terrorism.

>It’s at this point that we learn that Spengler, every night, listens to white noise static, hoping from communication from her father Egon, from the afterlife…But so far, she’s only heard one word: her name, Veronica. And it turns out that was just part of a radio commercial for a mattress company. She’s deeper and sadder than we’d imagined, and her resentment against her absentee father hides a deep, unfulfilled longing. There’s a reason she’s a ghostbuster, after all: She’s been chasing Egon’s “ghost” her whole life, so to speak.

>She confides in Dante: “I don’t know what’s worse; the idea that he’s not there…Or the idea that he’s there, but he doesn’t care.”

>They end on a kiss, Spengler’s first in a while. Dante’s conflicted; Veronica Spengler doesn’t seem like the corporate scum his movement says to hate.

>Meanwhile, Quaid has a rare, possibly prophetic dream; Slimer, warning him about a door that’s opening, beyond which is only a massive, bloodshot eye, and seven writhing snakes.

>Quaid, usually the joker, awkwardly attempts to tell the rest of the team about his dream; they blow him off, not believing he’s a psychic, and further discussion is halted when the LA chapter arrives, asking to “borrow a ghost.”

>With Dante The Handsome Hippie’s rhetoric fresh in her head, Spengler spearheads a rebuttal, and the friendly conversation between the two last Ghostbuster teams on Earth nearly degenerates into an all out brawl…when they’re interrupted by a call. On the red phone.

>Janine answers. They can’t believe it. It’s a ghost.

>The NYC team has been called to action for the first time ever, and hop in the Ecto-1, giddy to face this challenge. The LA team, however, takes an errant comment by Ray about the Park West Building as a clue, and leaves with a new plan.

>The Busters maiden voyage is predictably chaotic, with Oberstein’s overclocked equipment doing more harm than help, Quaid’s psychic ability surprising everyone by A. Being Real and B. Handicapping him terribly with horrifying visions from the ghost’s past, Spengler’s misidentification of the ghost costing them time and endangering civilians and Becker freezing up under pressure, failing in the moment he’d waited his whole life for.

>Yet, after a bombastic, calamitous battle with a spirit in a subway that spills into a broadway theater, the Ghost gets Busted. They did it. For the first time ever, they actually did it.

>The Busters are overjoyed, and for a night are the heroes they always hoped they would be, and celebrate with a party where we learn more about them, and each of their deeper reasons for becoming a Ghostbuster. Around a pitfire on the roof of the firehouse, they talk about rumors about the other defunct Ghostbusters teams from the 1990s and 2000s (“Was there really a one man team? Was there really a helicopter?”)

>Becker explains that his dad and fiancé’s objections to his chosen line of work, and he feels like a disappointment, and Oberstein confides that he’d been worried he’d get lost in the shuffle among the bigger technology companies.

>This leads to Quaid opening up about his ability; he can’t turn it on or off. When he was young, he was raised by his grandmother out in the country. Every day he’d come home to her and she’d make dinner and they’d talk about school. When he was twelve years old, Child Services came to the house. They found his grandmother’s body. She’d been dead for three years.

>He’d been raised by a ghost.

>They bond, and we really see them as a team for the first time.

>But something insidious has happened; the LA Ghostbusters have a new plan. They go to the Park West building, long condemned but never demolished, and plan to use the building’s unique architectural properties to summon a small, harmless, easy to contain ghost to do the test run of their technology. They need to impress the Moebius Initiative, who seem to approve of this decision.

>So up they go to the roof, and their plan works flawlessly…for all of five seconds, before the temporary rift in reality is torn wide open by familiar claws.

>Enter Vinz Clortho and Zuul.

>Only the former-model Olivia Munn 2005-styled Geek Goddess female member of the Los Angeles team actually sticks up to the inter-dimensional invaders, and for her trouble is possessed by Zuul, while the two other LA Busters straight up run away, barely escaping their possessed team mate and a rampaging bad-ass CGI Vinz Clortho.

>What could this mean? Is something bigger coming?

>Dante the Hippie shows up looking for Spengler, but Veronica Spengler, who’s just dealt with a very real and dangerous ghost for the first time, has little sympathy for the Free Spirits “Ghosts R Nice” cause, and is very harsh to Dante, turning him away. The Busters have a team meeting, where Becker expresses anxiety at the absence of the Los Angeles team, and Ray Stantz reveals that anomalous energy readings have been in a steady rise all over the city for the past twenty four hours.

>This heralds the arrival of Reiser and the Moebius Initiative, who detain the entirety of the NYC Ghostbuster team, except Spengler, who escapes at the last second. The Moebius initiative thinks it’s more than a little coincidental that a ghost would show up in their hour of need to give them some much needed good PR. The Moebius Initiative hauls them out, denying any knowledge of the Los Angeles Team.

>…But this leaves the empty firehouse open to infiltration by Dante, who’s angry at his treatment by Spengler, and has decided to go through with the ghost free-ing plan. Janine catches him, and he tricks her and locks her in a cabinet. Proceeding to the basement, he is about to free the ghosts…when he sees Veronica Spengler’s White Noise listening equipment, and remembers his connection to her, and her story about her father.

>Dante reconsiders, and decides not to free the ghosts…JUST IN TIME TO BE AMBUSHED AND POSSESSED BY VINZ CLORTHO…WHO KILLS THE CONTAINMENT GRID, FREEING THE GHOSTS. OH SHIIIIIITTTTTT.

>Veronica Spengler sees “Dante” escaping from the EXPLODING FIREHOUSE, and rushes in, donning a pack and fighting off several ghosts to save Janine. She lets out one last frantic distress call to all the remaining Ghostbuster rosters in America (all of which are already defunct), before she has to flee the firehouse, which finally collapses after all these years.

>The freed ghosts are suddenly EVERYWHERE in New York, and the mood is one of total pandemonium. The NYC Ghostbusters use this opportunity to break free of the Moebius initiative, stealing the ECTO-1 back from the impound. They use the car’s onboard tracker to locate the ECTO-X, the LA Buster’s vehicle, and deduce that the Los Angeles team started all this by going to the Park West building.

>Becker, Oberstein and Quaid are enraged, deciding to chase the LA-busters down…But Ray refuses to go with them. He seems broken; his dream has truly become a nightmare, and he feels responsible for the LA Busters and their inadvertant causing of the apocalypse. Becker is convinced it’s not too late, even as his fiance calls him, telling him he needs to give up and evacuate the city; she clearly doesn’t believe in him to change the fate of the city, and it’s implied she’s given up on him in general.

>Becker wavers…But holds firm.

>Meanwhile, “Dante” the Keymaster arrives at Park West, and heads up to meet with the Gatekeeper Female Los Angeles Buster.

>Becker and the gang catch up to the LA-busters, whose millions of twitter followers can’t help them now. This leads us into an insane car chase sequence, with the Ecto-1 pursuing the Ecto-X through the ghost infested chaotic streets of New York. Finally, after driving through the subway, on the elevated rail and across the docks, NYC runs LA off the road.

>They confront the LA busters and confirm their worst suspicions, but it’s much too late: the Gate’s been Keyed, so to speak, and the Park West building EXPLODES into a massive storm of light and energy.

>The end is near.

>Veronica Spengler sees this happen from where she’s helping civilians. She knows what this means…But she’s not afraid. Bring it on. Thinking she’s the only one left, she zips up her jumpsuit and heads to Park West to face Gozer on her own.

>Ray, in the meantime, has made his way back to the firehouse, to find it destroyed. He walks through the rubble of his life’s work, utterly broken. All those moments. Slimer in the ballroom. The TV commercials. The fame. The statue of liberty. He was a hero. They were all heroes. He picks up a photo of himself, Winston, Egon and Venkman, and tries to call Venkman.

>We cut to Venkman who’s on the beach on a tropical island with his grandkids. He forwards the call.

>Ray cries, alone, and is joined by Becker, Oberstein and Quaid. Becker’s eternal optimism has finally been defeated. His fiance’s left him, and he’s a shitty ghostbuster. All of Oberstein’s research was destroyed in the firehouse, and he’s become what he always thought he would be; a second rate nothing. And Quaid’s power did no one any good; he didn’t see what was coming.

>They’ve failed, and the world will suffer for their failure.

>Meanwhile, in the embattled city hall, a frantic city intern rushes in with news that a helicopter is asking for clearance to fly into the city. They’re about to deny it when the mayor arrives, fresh from the chaos outside. But he’s seen all this before.

>Because the mayor is WALTER PECK.

>Peck reads the helicopter’s clearance code, and immediately grants it access to New York’s airspace, and then rushes into action. He looks out the window at the Park West Building, and then calls into action the city’s entire police and fire department. He demands all the cell towers be hijacked to broadcast one text message, which he writes himself, and then throws on his coat and heads out the door, full-on West Wing style.

>At the firehouse, the Moebius Initiative arrives in force, easily beating up and arresting the NYC ghostbusters and Ray for the second time, super pissed off that they got away at all. John Reiser clearly blames them for what’s happening to the city, and all hope is lost.

>When we hear the sound of a helicopter.

>A Ghostbusters branded classic Volkswagen bus, ambulance, armored car, Chevy Chevell, and 1975 Cutlass suddenly skid in from all directions, blocking off the street, as THE FREAKING GHOSTBUSTERS CHINOOK HELICOPTER swoops low. That’s right: the one we heard about earlier. IT ACTUALLY EXISTS.

>IT’S WINSTON ZEDMORE, jump-suited up. He received the distress call Veronica Spengler sent earlier, and rallied every available Ghostbuster, flying them all in by private jet. And holy shit, it’s Nick Swardson, Amy Poehler, The Workaholics, Key and Peele, Lisa Kudrow, Nick Kroll, Amy Schumer, Will Forte, Patton Oswalt the list goes on, it’s the fucking Avengers of comedy in 2016.

>Maybe you can see them in their spin off films or TV shows after this movie is a big hit. Nevermind. Focus. Concentrate on what’s happening.

>Winston and Ray revisit their conversation about Revelations and the apocalypse from the first Ghostbuster’s film. This is it. This is fire and brimstone; the final test.

>Everyone’s faith is restored! Holy shit! THE GHOSTBUSTERS ROLL OUT…meanwhile…

>Veronica Spengler, on foot, walking alone up the middle of the street to battle a god by herself. We can hear the sounds of panic, we can see glowing ghosts of various colors causing chaos.

>She’s scared, but this is her destiny. This is what her father would’ve wanted.

>She can’t turn back now…and she turns a corner onto park avenue, only to find THE STREETS LINED WITH PEOPLE LIKE A FUCKING PARADE!

>Walter Peck is up on a cop car, yelling to the crowd, psyching them up with positive energy a la Ghostbusters 2.

>Veronica is stunned to have a crowd of tens of thousands cheering her own as she walks up the street…But then, over the noise of the crowd, blasts “Ghost” by Ella Henderson, playing on loudspeakers as…

>IT’S THE GHOSTBUSTERS! The procession of vehicles comes up the center of Park Avenue as the crowd goes insane, the helicopter swooping low. The energy, with the song playing, is completely electric.

>Becker pulls Veronica up onto the ECTO-1, and thanks her. She can’t believe it. Becker’s in disbelief; they all are. All the positive energy is keeping the ghosts at bay, holding them back, if only briefly.

>Oberstein spots the douchey tech company scout who approached him in the first act, and shrugs at him from the roof of the ECTO-1. “Sorry buddy. Gotta go save the world.” They make the “We’ll call you” hand sign. Oberstein makes a “hanging up” hand sign.

>Becker sees HIS FIANCE AND FATHER IN THE CROWD, CHEERING.

>He jumps off, running and embracing the fiance to huge applause from the crowd, asking how all this was possible. She shows him a text, the same one everyone in New York got: “PARK AVENUE NOW 2 HELP THE GHOSTBUSTERS SAVE THE CITY.”

>Ray sees the text, and he and Winston clock Walter Peck, who salutes them. They laugh, and both of them give him the finger. The convoy pulls up in front of Park West, to the adulation of the crowd. It’s suddenly 1984 again.

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wat

>We start in the 1920s

stopped reading there

Jesus Christ Max, Sup Forums is never going to lavish the praise on you that you so desperately desire

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Pretty self-referential and it takes too long for the ghosts to actually appear in a movie about ghosts. The 'new cast' might be okay if they were given a whole movie to themselves but really this is a movie about Ray and Ray lite.

The plot is kind of shitty since the bad guys don't do anything other than show up at the end to get blasted, and what the fuck was the point in that army plotline? You don't need a reason for shithead ghostbusters to want to bring the ghosts back other than to keep themselves in a job.

I'd give it a 6/10

i just marathoned the original GB and it was boring as fuck

OBERSTEIN

>Irwin Oberstein, a gearhead MIT kick-out metalhead who sees the Ghostbusters as the ultimate way to explore his punk rock ideas about quantum physics
Jesus fuck Max

There's already been a Ghostbusters 3; original writers, original voice cast, all new story with throwbacks to the 1984 movie. You can't get more legit than that.

Alright. Bit too out there at times, but, If nothing else, probably would've been the best version of GB3 possible. Despite his persona, Landis is actually a decent writer. His BvS rewrite would've legitimately been better than the movie itself.

It's literally two movies. How did you get bored, faggot?

I would prefer anything he made.

It's true. This man has no dick.

I'd rather see a US/Japan joint production of Ghostbusters written and directed by Gen Urobutchi.
>"Oh but it'll be too dark and deaths everywhere."
The man did a children/family show he can handle it.1

>We start in the 1920s, where we witness cult leader Ivo Shandor proclaim the prophecy of the two comings of Gozer, one a failure, and the second thirty years later, to destroy the world. One of his followers speaks out, and is killed for his insubordination…becoming the spirit who is eventually known to us as Slimer.
>Slam to 2016.
I'm out. I know a lot of his fans and people in the industry tout him as being a good pitch man but holy fucking shit. NO. Just no.

>Did the Atlanta chapter really need a helicopter?

Maybe you shouldn't make helicopter jokes, Max.

>the military want to weaponize the ghosts

I stopped reading right there

This is busy as fuck and it sounds like a shitty excuse to get his comedian buddies a payday.

Fucking kek.

He just seems to be getting some of this shit from tv tropes examples, I swear to god.

I just skimmed through the whole thing. I'm glad he hasn't worked on anything in years and hopefully no studio will give this asswipe the time of day. It's obvious he's had success on his name alone this shit is all over the place. He has no sense of budget as a writer. The fact he named dropped an actress prove to me he thinks he has the clout in the industry to do that kind of thing. Just by the descriptions I can tell these characters will all suck. This is fucking terrible and would take a few very heavy rewrites to make it even close to decent.

And the game itself is pretty fun too, a little repetitive, but it's certainly still very good.

>takes too long for the ghosts to actually appear in a movie about ghosts.

You're an idiot and why we cant have nice things post 2000.

Max, you have too much time on your hands

Unlike those kids your dad killed

>I'm glad he hasn't worked on anything in years
Umm..

Damn.

True, but even then there's something childishly thrilling about being able to be throwing proton streams around with Venkman, Egon, Stantz and Zeddemore as they ask 'you' for help.

I think it's a good outline and as a pitch it works.

Technically it's not even a first draft.

Everyone else on this thread seems to think this is the movie come to life...

People just want to shit on Max cause he's eccentric and successful.

he just sold a script to netflix for like 2-3 million dollars. Will Smith is starring and David Ayer is directing.

The one issue I have with Max's scripts is that a lot of his characters tend to sound like him. He also tries to have those memorable ''moments'' in his films but they just come across as lame, like the dancing thing in Mr. Right.

My fucking god

max landis is a numale

Why do you say that?

there was a ghostbusters 3 in production but it was cancelled after people thought it was too dark.

that footage is real it's from a film expo in the early 2000s

You tell me
youtube.com/watch?v=gbYu2xziX2w

its from the relic

You are charged with same fagging and making shit up
How do you plead?

>Patton Oswalt

Fuck no, fuck that guy. Absolute cunt.

I haven't read his ghostbusters 3 plot but it sounds like pretty much what I feel they should have done from what I've heard of it. Set it in another city with a newer, less successful franchise.

He was raised in Hollywood. The guy never stood a chance.

He's a bit of a twat but he's the kind of guy who could play a ghost buster. Amy Schumer I don't think could manage though.

>Nick Swardson
This is his idea of all star comedians plus having them just pop up for no reason other than cameos in the final battle is retarded.

It was too dark so they had to kill the black character.

If he kills himself I will give him praise for doing so. However I will then retract that praise as he should have done it years ago.

>tfw to appeal to hipsters and wannabes, studios would probably push for the poser LA team to be the main characters

People shit on him because his success is due to nepotism. His eccentricity is just an easy target.

ghostbusters was always garbage

Landis is a weird writer. In theory his ideas are great. His scripts and movies start great. Then in the middle they become mediocre. And near the end they become absolute shit. Examples:

>Victor Frankestein
>Mr Right

Idea behind movies is great. Movies start of great, become mediocre, then shit. Seriously, landis needs an editor or a non mentally ill writing partner to help him keep on track with his writing.

Just give it a break Max

>Slimer was actually a cultist killed in the 20's
>The "gearhead" wants to "overclock" equipment they don't use for no real reason
>One of them has actual psychic abilities for some reason, when the entire point was that the Ghostbusters are a bunch of normal schlubs with fancy equipment
>CGI action scenes where they fight ghosts like it's a real action movie
>>IT’S WINSTON ZEDMORE, jump-suited up. He received the distress call Veronica Spengler sent earlier, and rallied every available Ghostbuster, flying them all in by private jet. And holy shit, it’s Nick Swardson, Amy Poehler, The Workaholics, Key and Peele, Lisa Kudrow, Nick Kroll, Amy Schumer, Will Forte, Patton Oswalt the list goes on, it’s the fucking Avengers of comedy in 2016.
>This entire scene
Why
He's just some asshole who eats a lot and makes trouble, why would he need to be a near-century old member of a cult that accurately predicted the end of the world
Also, in general it seems like a bad idea to go back to the events of the first movie and say "Ok I know they said it wold be the end of the world but actually the prophecy said there would be a false start and then the real end of the world 30 years later, which is conveniently the length of time between the first movie being made and the third movie"
Gozer doesn't need to be the lynchpin of the entire franchise
I have a big problem with the way Landis only seems to be able to write the same 5 or so characters, and they all seem like California archetypes of people he personally knows
What a hack

It's name recognition, not nepotism.

John Landis' name might mean something but he sure as shit can't pull strings to get his son work in this day and age.

he's good at throwing general pitches, but bad at going into detail and the nitty gritty

I thought all his characters were all variations on himself, including the women. Hes just such a fucking weirdo.

That poster makes no sense. The ghost was holding up two fingers for a peace sign.
At least that's what I thought it meant.

It's not the poster's fault you're retarded.

I thought it was a peace sign too. Max's poster looks shitty.

>nearly 70 posts
> the guy who posts the 'it's your max landis daily update' pasta hasn't replied

Sup Forums really is dead

I'd rather not have anything by Max. And I'd rather have neither the new movie or this proposed film. Also we already had a 3rd "movie":

>One of his followers speaks out, and is killed for his insubordination…becoming the spirit who is eventually known to us as Slimer.

Fucking terrible, holy shit

>And holy shit, it’s Nick Swardson, Amy Poehler, The Workaholics, Key and Peele, Lisa Kudrow, Nick Kroll, Amy Schumer, Will Forte, Patton Oswalt the list goes on, it’s the fucking Avengers of comedy in 2016.

What the fuck am I reading

10/10
#shotsfired

he went from writing movies to writing comic books.

>One of his followers ends up eating all the party refreshments and Kool Aid, becoming the only casualty in a planned mass suicide
>he turns into Slimer

Fixed

it was awesome

Holy shit user I'm fucking dying here.

that actually makes a lot of sense. fits with his character.
gotta love it when some anons joke is better than that of a "screenwriter"