On Tuesday evening a "scoop" was unleashed on the internet that Max Landis had been brought in to do a script polish on the new Ghostbusters script. This rumor was debunked in near record time by Landis himself. He declared that there was zero truth to what had been written but would have been honored to have been asked.
Now, Landis has taken to twitter again to say that even though he was never approched, it didn't mean he didn't have thoughts on how a Ghostbusters 3 movie would go. He laid out the basic details in the following tweets:
Haha a bunch of people asking what my Ghostbusters 3 pitch would've been. I never had a full one, just a skeleton I've goofed around with.
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014My Ghostbusters 3 began in the 1920s with Ivo Shandor murdering a gluttonous associate to protect his cult after he has a moral objection.
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014Shandor tells the overweight man that nothing can stop the coming of Gozer; first, the gate will open in 1984, then again twenty years later
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014The fat man, who now has all the details of Shandor's plans, threatens to go to the police, and Shandor poisons him. It's scary, but...
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014As Shandor escapes, we see that we're in the Sedgewick Hotel, and that the guy we just saw die... ...Is Slimer. Cue theme. Show title.
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014My full movie concerns several new teams (focusing on one), grown from the Ghostbusters Franchise which is now global (and going bankrupt)
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014Ghostbusters have become a parody of themselves, there are barely twelve ghosts caught a year. People have forgotten what happened in NYC.
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014Ghostbusters have become a parody of themselves, there are barely twelve ghosts caught a year. People have forgotten what happened in NYC.
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014Egon passed away, Venkman lives on an island, Winston retired rich. Only Ray Stantz is left in charge, and he's a terrible business man.
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014In an effort to bring back business, an obsessed team whose station has been shut down attempts to summon a minor ghost... Mistake. Gozer.
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014In an effort to bring back business, an obsessed team whose station has been shut down attempts to summon a minor ghost... Mistake. Gozer.
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014It's all very meta (creatively bankrupt Ghostbusters, no one wants the new team, the bad team are slick Michael Bay-versions of the GBs)...
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014...But you keep the action, comedy, and emotion sincere. Witty, bluecollar guys who are the last people you'd want saving the world.
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014And I think the teams would be by modern-comedy clique; a Parks/Rec team, a Rogen/Franco team, a Kroll/Key/Peele team...
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 19, 2014 So there you have it. An outline of a Ghostbusters movie that will never be made by a writter who was never asked to write it. That aside, what would you have thought about this as the basic plot for the next film?