Ghostbusters: 30 Things You Might Not Know About The Classic Comedy
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11) Prior to beginning work on Ghostbusters, Reitman were attempting to put together a movie version of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, with both Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd being considered for the role of Ford Prefect. So in a parallel reality somewhere, we might have gotten a good Hitchhiker’s movie but no Ghostbusters. I don’t think that’s a trade I’d be willing to make.
12) Huey Lewis and the News turned down the offer to write the Ghostbusters theme song. Lewis later sued Ray Parker Jr., claiming his Ghostbusters theme plagiarised their song “I Want a New Drug.” They settled out of court.
13) Remember the librarian who said that she had an uncle who thought he was St. Jerome? St. Jerome is the patron saint of librarians.
14) Ghostbusters was the highest-grossing comedy of all time until Home Alone dethroned it.
15) A more frightening version of the librarian ghost was created but unused, and it later popped up in the movie Fright Night.
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