Ghostbusters 2 The Original Banshee Story Plan The Sequel Dropped

Ghostbusters 2: The Original Banshee Story Plan The Sequel Dropped

Before the script that became Ghostbusters 2 was written, Dan Aykroyd had another idea that involved an international ghost-busting trip to Scotland.

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Ghostbusters 2 The Original Banshee Story Plan The Sequel Dropped

The original Ghostbusters 2 script supposedly told a story involving a banshee that the sequel’s theatrical version ultimately dropped. In advance of Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s release this summer, a recent interview with Bill Murray reveals that the original plot for the first sequel he was pitched did not pan out the way he thought it would. Perhaps this banshee idea was what got him excited to join in the first place.

After the success of the 1984’s original film, the 1989 sequel Ghostbusters 2 pitted the cast against Vigo the Carpathian and the mysterious pink slime rising up from New York City’s underground. Before Vigo can resurrect himself by transferring his soul into Dana’s (Sigourney Weaver) infant son, the Ghostbusters use the slime to animate the Statue of Liberty, spread optimism throughout the city, and save the day. Yet, as with most films, the script went through a significant amount of rewrites, so much so that the original idea was lost in translation.

According to the March 1989 issue of Starlog magazine, Bill Murray pitched The Last of the Ghostbusters as a sequel title. Rumor has it that the first sequel script was also referred to as Ghostbusters: The Seed, though this remains unverified. In the November 1989 issue of Cinefex, Dan Aykroyd’s sequel idea featured an international ghost-busting excursion to Scotland, where Peter Venkman and team would rescue a kidnapped Dana from a “fairy ring and civilization underground.” In the end, Aykroyd deemed his plan too bizarre to be taken seriously, though the idea of the underground stuck:

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“It was also probably too inaccessible, though I thought at the time I wrote it that it was the direction we should go in. I wanted to leave New York City behind because I thought we had done that… my original concept for going underground was different. It involved a pneumatic tube two thousand miles long that they traveled in for three days. It was like a primitive mail chute.”

In the theatrical version of Ghostbusters 2, the Ghostbusters venture down into an abandoned subway line to investigate the slime, though it would have been a really interesting concept to see them tunneling through Scotland to find Dana. In an interview at the Ghostbusters 35th Anniversary Fan Fest, Akyroyd confirmed that Scotland would have been a great setting for the sequel because of its own ghost history. Additionally, the villain of the scrapped version of the Ghostbusters sequel would have likely been a legendary banshee-like figure.

The Ghostbusters franchise has included some great practical effects in its earlier films, so a banshee done with limited CGI sounds particularly frightening. Coupled with other magical beings associated with Scottish lore, it may have been a great commercial success if written well. The original Ghostbusters reveled in the absurd and fantastical with a giant, angry marshmallow man, and a potential banshee and underground society in Ghostbusters 2 would have probably been just as enjoyable.

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