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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 6843181" data-attributes="member: 1125">Well considering that Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis wrote and starred I reckon we already got the writers vision for the movie<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />albeit that Akroyds original draft was a very very different concept. The original cast were largely SNL (Harold Ramis was an SNL writer with Akroyd) and as far as I know all four of the new ones have come through SNL too. but yes the part was originally Belushis but was then rewritten (and Bill Murray was given permission to ad lib). Apparently Rick Moranis' character was originally written for John Candy and they had Paul Rubens in mind for Gozer.  Akroyd had just worked with Eddie Murphy in Trading Places and had him in mind for the part but he was apparently too busy filiming Beverly Hills Cop. According to one report Winstons backstory originally had him as an Air Force demolitions expert but it was cut back in order to give Bill Murray more camera time.I think that what makes the original good is the set up is an action horror but you put some very talented comedians in that and let them go. Bill Murray is of course one of the greatest ad libbers in show business and they all had great chemistry which made the original a classic. I think that this new bunch have comedic ability but the trailer makes it look like they are trying to make a comedy rather than just being comedians reacting to their setting.lets see what happens...</blockquote>

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