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• FEATURE
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side of the pond, 'Ghostbusters II' has earned a cool S 100 million (which.
statistics fans, is half the entire take of 'Ghostbusters' in one twentieth of the
time), despite lukewarm reviews everywhere. Aykroyd and Ramis would again
write the script, giving themselves the unenviable task of bringing the 'busters
back with a fresh story. "None of us had ever done a sequel," Ramis says,
"although we'd had offers on virtually every film we'd worked on. But then
we started thinking if we could come up with a concept that seemed worthy,
that really progressed us in some way, that had something new to say, then
ve'd do it." Aykryod and Ramis, along with Reitman, "played with many
different permutations of what happened to the Ghostbusters after the first
movie, and we finally settled on something that would seem meaningful for
all of us, and that's what we pursued."
The film opens with the four 'busters gone bust (sic), having been made
to pay for the mess they made in the first movie. Peter Venkman (Murray)
is hosting a psychic-phenomena cable-TV show called 'Wow! People'; Ray
Stantz (Aykroyd) and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) are reliving their
Ghostbusting days at childrens' birthday parties; Ego Spengler (Remis) has
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