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So.... who gets his collection of spores, molds, and fungus?
...probably Dan Aykroyd.
All seriousness, RIP Ramis. May your ghost not need busting.PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.
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Just saw the news myself. Damn. I loved his work.I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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RIP, Egon. >_<"For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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Damn... I loved his work, as a writer, director and actor. I mean, his movies were some of the biggest comedies in the 70's and 80's... "Caddyshack", "Animal House", "Meatballs", "Ghostbusters", "Vacation"...
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His first movie was recently placed in the Hall of Fame and if I'm not mistaken doesn't that mean they can't be "reimagined"?Comment
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I hope so! I hate remakes anyway, and Ramis just can't be beat. Am I the only one who has crushed on Egon Spengler? Brilliant, deadpan, and has an exciting job. What's not to love?Quoth Aethian View PostComment
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Last year or thereabouts, I thought on how you could "reimagine" Ghostbusters in a way that isn't exactly "reimagining" it.Quoth Aethian View Post
Basic gist-- the Ghostbusters had to close down due to insurance issues. (All that collateral damage has to be paid for by somebody, after all.) Fifteen, twenty years go by, the Ghostbusters and everyone go their separate ways. Ray still runs his occult book shop, Winston goes off and gets his PhD or whatever, Venkman goes back to TV... then local-access cable... then local radio... then obscure local radio. Egon is... Egon.
But all that is found out partway through the movie, because the principal characters are a group of young college-age adults that get into paranormal stuff, start putting together that there might be some major paranormal event coming up, and go to the Ghostbusters for help in figuring it out/stopping it, and end up back in the ghost-busting business, with the original crew serving in a mentor role, effectively "passing the torch" to the younger crew.
You could still do something like that, and just have it said that Egon "has moved on." And bam, you've got a "new" Ghostbusters franchise that isn't actually "new" or "reimagined" and you've got a younger crew of actors to use, since the original crew are getting on in the years.PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.
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Extreme Ghostbusters kind of did that, though Egon was their teacher.Low lie the Fields of Athenry/ Where once we watched the small free birds fly/ Our love was on the wing/ we had dreams and songs to sing/ It's so lonely around the Fields of AthenryComment
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Eh, see, the movies were canon for the cartoons and the video game that came out a few years ago, but the cartoons were not canon for the movies, and I think it should stay that way.Quoth Andrew B. View Post
...apart from making the episode from the cartoon that dealt with Cthulhu. That can stay canon.PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.
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Guys...I meant his first directed movie, the one that have John Belushi his big break.Comment
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Egon's gone bye bye.
So sad.Comment
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That would be "Animal House", which he also co-wrote the screenplay for (and one of my all time fave films, BTW.)Quoth Aethian View Post
He will be sorely missed.
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And Jim Venkman, keep him as canon. Actually i tossed up my ideas for Ghostbusters III on my blog (javataur.blogspot.com) today as it happens, i'd already been rolling it around in the back of my mind before Mr Ramis passed.Quoth Jay 2K Winger View PostSeph
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Alternate universes? Pretty much my opinion, too.Quoth Jay 2K Winger View Post
To be fair, I loved Ghostbusters and didn't like Ghostbusters 2 at all. Loved the cartoon for the most part, although there were a few episodes that left me going, "
were they thinking?!" So yeah, to each his own.
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