Max Landis’ Treatment For “Ghostbusters 3”
There have always been rumors going around about the “Ghostbusters” movie franchise. Some have been confirmed, like Paul Feig announcing he’s doing a “Ghostbusters” film with an all female cast and Sony saying there’s another “Ghostbusters” film in the works with director Ivan Reitman, writer Dan Aykroyd and starring Channing Tatum.
A report from a year ago, that turned out to be completely false is that Max Landis (Chronicle), was writing “Ghostbusters 3”. Landis tweeted out that he had no involvement in the project, but it did peak his interest. According to Germain Lussier at SlashFilm.com, Landis has written his own treatment for his vision of a third film. Max Landis put his treatment online for all the “Ghostbusters” fans who wanted to see how he would have handle bringing the franchise back to life.
In his treatment, Max Landis sets up new “Ghostbusters” backstory:
We start in the 1920s, where we witness cult leader Ivo Shandor proclaim the prophecy of the two comings of Gozer, one a failure, and the second thirty years later, to destroy the world. One of his followers speaks out, and is killed for his insubordination…becoming the spirit who is eventually known to us as Slimer.
And discusses where the team is in 2016.
The New York Team is now comprised of Ted Becker, an earnest sweetheart living a dream born as he watched the Busters defeat Gozer as a little boy in 1985; Veronica Spengler, Egon’s Very Egon-Like daughter who feels in turns respectful and resentful of the hole left in her world; Brian Quaid, a fast talking breezily confident self-proclaimed psychic with a chip on his shoulder, and Irwin Oberstein, a gearhead MIT kick-out metalhead who sees the Ghostbusters as the ultimate way to explore his punk rock ideas about quantum physics.
Read Max Landis entire treatment for “Ghostbusters 3” at MaxLandisWrites.com.
