Ghostbusters: 30 Things You Might Not Know About The Classic Comedy
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6) Gozer, played in the film by Serbian model/actress Slavitza Jovan, was originally going to appear in the form of Ivo Shandor, who is mentioned in the final film as the founder of the Gozer cult. The Gozer/Shandor role was offered to Paul “Pee Wee” Reubens, but he turned it down.
7) And it wasn’t just the cast that changed a lot during development. Aykroyd’s original script was set in the future, in a world where there were multiple Ghostbusters franchises all over the nation. The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man would have turned up much earlier in the movie, and there would have been several other large-scale menaces for the Ghostbusters to deal with. Director Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis came up with the idea of making it more of an origin story for the group, and scaling it back in scope, since Reitman estimated it would have cost $300 million in 1984 dollars to shoot the original script as written.
8) During the initial release of the movie, they began running the Ghostbusters’ infamous TV spot on actual television, but with a real 1-800 number replacing the movie’s 555 number. Calling it got you a pre-recorded message from Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. The number apparently got 1,000 calls per hour, 24 hours a day, for six weeks.
9) The people shouting “Ghostbusters!” during the iconic theme song are musician Ray Parker Jr.’s girlfriend and her friends.
10) Parker reportedly came up with the idea for the theme song in the middle of the night, after two days of trying to come up with something. He was inspired by a cheap commercial for a local business that reminded him of the Ghostbusters commercial from the script.
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