In April 2018, IDW began publishing an 8 issue miniseries featuring all the various Ghostbusters teams crossing over in an epic event. Ghostbusters was screened for test audiences on February 3, 1984, with unfinished effects shots to determine if the comedy worked. She quickly changed out of her street clothes and borrowed a pair of glasses worn by the set dresser which her character subsequently wore throughout the film. When people went home early in the evening everything was normal, and when the little old ladies came out to walk their dogs in the morning, the whole street had erupted.

Meanwhile, Peter is a talk show host, and Egon is studying the effects of negative energy on human beings. The "neutrino wand" had a flashbulb at the tip, giving animators an origin point for the proton streams.It is the sequel to Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), and the fourth film in the Ghostbusters franchise. In May 2013, Aykroyd discussed plot points including real experiments being done by college students at Columbia University as a source of inspiration. As the title "Ghostbusters" was legally restricted by the 1970s children's show The Ghost Busters, owned by Universal Studios, several alternatives titles were considered, including "Ghoststoppers", "Ghostbreakers", and "Ghostsmashers". Reitman later said the idea of a teenage girl wanting to be a Ghostbuster had come to him, and with a positive reaction from Feig's film, proved the idea that anyone could be a Ghostbuster would work. He suggested that setting it entirely on Earth would make the extraordinary elements funnier, and that focusing on realism from the beginning would make the Marshmallow Man more believable by the end.

Following the film's theatrical screenings, it was released digitally on January 4, 2022 and on DVD, Blu-ray, and Ultra HD Blu-ray on February 1 in North America. Ramis was inspired by the cover of a journal on abstract architecture for Egon's appearance, featuring a man wearing a three-piece tweed suit and wire-rim glasses, his hair standing straight up. Aykroyd pitched his concept to Brillstein as three men who chase ghosts and included a sketch of the Marshmallow Man character he had imagined. He was also drawn to the idea of modernizing the comedic ghost films of the mid-20th century by comics such as Abbott and Costello ( Hold That Ghost, 1941), Bob Hope ( The Ghost Breakers, 1940) and the Bowery Boys ( Ghost Chasers, 1951).It was one of the largest constructed sets in film history and was surrounded by a 360-degree cyclorama painting. Reitman wanted a grounded, realistic score and did not want the music to tell the audience when something was funny. Reitman later admitted he made up the figure, basing it on three times the budget for Stripes, which seemed "reasonable". Following Reitman's tweaks to the design, on-screen models of the "proton packs" were made from a fiberglass shell with an aluminum backplate bolted to a United States Army backpack frame. Set in the backwater town of Summerville in Oklahoma, Ghostbusters: Afterlife introduces us to new characters.

By 2009, the project had failed to progress, [22] but by January 2010, Ivan Reitman, director of the first two Ghostbusters films, confirmed he would direct a third one. Bernstein personally disliked the use of these songs, particularly "Magic", but said, "it's very hard to argue with something like ["Ghostbusters"], when it is up in the top ten on the charts".That October, Aykroyd commented on the screenplay written by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, stating that he was particularly impressed with the writing of Murray's character and the implementation of the new team with the original while he and Ramis worked on a second draft of the script.

published a 4 issue [25] mini-series titled Ghostbusters: Legion that ran from February through May 2004. The script was structured to slowly reveal the connection to the Egon Spengler character, which would bring in elements of earlier Ghostbusters films. When it comes to major movie franchises like Jurassic Park, Star Wars, and Harry Potter, it’s easy to forget that the worlds they’ve created also exist beyond the silver screen, in many other forms of media.Simmons took the role as a token of friendship with the Reitmans, with whom he frequently collaborates in films like Jason's 2007 film Juno and the 2017 film Father Figures, co-produced by Ivan. The comic books also feature several other Ghostbusters exclusive to this particular continuity, which means that there are more than just 12 Ghostbusters! This led to the development of more distinct identities for the characters: Peter as the cool, modern salesman; Ray as the honest, enthusiastic technician; and Egon as the factual, stoic intellectual. Reitman used a multi-camera setup to focus on the librarian and the cards flying around her and a wider overall shot. Johnson based it on a reanimated corpse puppet he had made for An American Werewolf in London (1981).