- March 20th, 2024, 11:41 pm#4994805
Like I did for Afterlife, this will be a thread about documenting the deleted scenes. Paul Rudoff has started with a list so I'm working off that in starting this thread. So if anyone remembers all those trailers, TV spots, online spots, and clips that didn't make it into the movie in theaters or you found interviews where the cast and crew lists a deleted scene, this is the place to post them. I will try to keep a 'master list' handy in this original post. Once I see the movie, I'll reorganize things.
--What we know--
--Deleted Scenes seen in previews, B-roll, special features, books--
1904
Trimmed - Firefighters had more scenes
"my part got cut way down in the edit."
Source: Brandon Burke reply
SEWER DRAGON
Trimmed - Manhole cover landing in the road during the Sewer Dragon chase.
Source: Final Trailer (3/1/24), screengrab
MAYOR'S OFFICE
Trimmed - Voice-over from Peck: "They called themselves Ghostbusters. According to these hacks, they saved the world. No eyewitnesses. And who is found to carry the torch? Descendants of Egon Spengler." and the end of the scene ("Overruled." "Sustained.")
Source: Domestic Trailer (1/29/24)
Trimmed - Winston was present in the Mayor's office.
Source: Major Films, Screen X trailer, 24 second mark
Deleted - The NY1 News segment came together in post and originally the dialogue was all from Mayor Peck.
Source: Rough Cut Podcast, 20:26-21:01
Alternate: They kept changing the amount jokes vs. story in the Mayor scene.
Source: Rough Cut Podcast, 23:23-23:37
BOOKSTORE
Trimmed - Exterior shot of people walking into Ray's Occult Books to sell their possessed items
Source: International Trailer (1/29/24), screengrab
Trimmed - Some of Aykroyd's material at Ray's Occult: "Here, we pay top dollar for your possessed possessions" and "I've never seen anything like this...at all."
Source: International Trailer (1/29/24)
Deleted - Podcast smashed more items
Source: PukieDoug
Alternate - Kumail's "Have it for forty" is also different in the film, where he says something to the effect of, "You can have everything in the box for forty bucks."
Source: International Trailer (1/29/24)
Deleted - An effect involving the jar of mood slime
Source: PukieDoug
ATTIC
Deleted - Shot of Trevor shooting at Slimer who is off-screen
Source:
Deleted - Trevor finding the vintage magazine.
Source: Domestic Trailer (1/29/24), screengrab
FIREHOUSE (Containment Unit walls are broken)
Alternate - Gary and Callie examining the frozen containment unit in the basement. (alternate angle)
Source: promotional still
Deleted - Gary and Peter in the basement surrounded by heaters. Gary asks Peter what he would have done "back in the day". He replies, "I would have showered, and shaved, and hit the clubs." Gary sarcastically comments, "That was really helpful. Thank you."
Source: promotional still, TV spot (fourth)
Washington Square Park
Alternate - Melody says "Oh, don’t worry. I get it. I’m like a hundred years old. You got a name?" instead of "I've had a lot of time to practice. So, got a name?"
Source: THR
PRC INTRO
Trimmed - Peter being present during introduction to Paranormal Research Center and Pukey intro
Source: trailer
Deleted - Phosphor replaced with Bonesy.
Source: Doug
PRC PETER NADEEM
Deleted - Peter dialogue was cut out.
Quote: "REID: The Venkman/Nadeem scene with the pasta strainer on his head. Nadeem getting more and more upset - and the fire behind him is starting to ignite. What was really hard about the scene was that there was quite a bit of dialogue cut out of it. In the script, Venkman is only supposed to throw the pen at Nadeem once, but because Bill does it in different ways and do them at different times, when you took some of the dialogue out you still needed to convey what’s happening with the fire."
Source: Boris FX
LIBRARY
Trimmed - Ray telling Phoebe and Podcast, "Grab your juice boxes."
Source: TV spot (fourth)
Deleted - Hubert guiding Ray, Phoebe, and Podcast to the hidden area of the library in an elevator.
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23), screengrab
Alternate - Photos of stone reliefs documenting Garraka's history being unfolded by Hubert in the library. (In the final film, his history is done as an animation.)
Source: Japanese Trailer (2/28/24), screengrab
LAB (pre-Garakka)
Deleted - Lars's line "Ever since you brought in this orb, strange things have been occurring."
Source: International Trailer (1/29/24)
DEEP FREEZE
Deleted - Ray telling Gary and Callie about Death Chill in kitchen, and Grooberson and Callie are being informed of the Death Chill ("Like, literally scared to death?" "That's messed up."). Trevor's trimmed line, "You know, I wasn't sure about you guys wanting to move to this place. Garbage, ghosts, garbage ghosts..." is potentially also from this scene, as it is presumably a reference to what happens at the library. Trevor's "Do we have a chopper?"
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23), Domestic Trailer (1/29/24),
Trimmed - Gary sings the Ghostbusters song at the tail end of the scene with him and Callie in the bedroom.
Source: "Fight" TV spot, clip
Deleted - At the start is a shot of Gary saying, "We ain’t afraid of no ghost" as he walks out of the bedroom.
Source: "Everything in This Place is Haunted" social media ad (3/22/2024)
Deleted - Traffic and people freezing on the streets of Eldridge and Broome, which was filmed on June 10 & 11, 2023. Extras running and pretending to be cold, with gusts of wind being produced by big fans and leaf blowers, and a little girl holding an ice cream cone.
Source: Spook Central
Deleted - Close up of teens in the Wonder Wheel cabin at Coney Island.
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23), screengrab
LAB (Garakka attack)
Alternate - Lucky yells "Get away from her!" but in the movie yells "Hey, asshole!"
Source:
Deleted - Lucky being frozen + freezing right up to her eyeball.
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23), screengrab
FINALE
Deleted - Scenes before the preparations for the final siege on the firehouse come together
Source: Collider, Gil Kenan
Trimmed - Trevor asking Lars, "Wait, do we even have weapons?" "We have lots of weapons."
Source: TV spot (second)
Deleted - The family on the firehouse roof in parkas. (Only Trevor and Lucky go up there.)
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23), screengrab
Trimmed - Trevor examining a string of Slimer's ectoplasm dripping from the ceiling.
Source: promotional still
Trimmed - Lars saying "Oh no!" and then ending up on the floor covered in Pukey's ectoplasm
Source: TV spot (third)
Alternate - When Death Chill creeps up to Firehouse in trailer, No Ghost sign is added.
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23)
Deleted - Gary, Callie and Phoebe at window. Callie firing out the window
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23),
Deleted - Ray says "no point trappin' we be zappin'" (?)
Source: B-roll
Trimmed - Ray piloting the drone trap. Peter says "That was some talent" at end of Garakka fight
Source: "Raving" TV spot
PLACEMENT IN MOVIE UNKNOWN
Deleted - Whatever was filmed outside the Community Medical Center of Elmhurst Hospital at 80th Street and 41st Avenue in Queens on June 14, 2023.
Deleted - Kids playing in an opened fire hydrant. (also filmed on Eldridge and Broome)
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23), screengrab
Deleted - Janine answering the phone with her trademark line, "Ghostbusters. Whadda ya want?" and pressing the "We Got One" button on her desk.
Source: Domestic Trailer (1/29/24), screengrab and Final Trailer (3/1/24), screengrab
Deleted/alternate - Winston's v/o: "All over New York City, ghost attacks are on the rise, and we are the only ones equipped to fight back." Note that this flows so well into the "Welcome to the new Paranormal Research Center. We've spent 40 years trapping them..." bit that is an alternate to what's in the film that I wouldn't be surprised if this was voice-over recorded just for the trailer.
Source: International Trailer (1/30/24)
Deleted - What was filmed in Tring Museum
Source: imgur and Logan Kim
Deleted - Phoebe and Melody take the subway.
Source: Emily Lind instagram
Deleted - More Pukey. "There were some other shots done of Pukey that diddnt make the Final Cut"
Source: Doug, GBFans post
Deleted - Lucky stands up for Winston and reminds him it's not okay to let some things slide and be more outspoken.
Source: Cup of Soul Show, 12:08 mark
Quote: "They're all truly truly talented and I have to really give a big shout out to Celeste O'Connor who is in the movie and she plays Lucky but she's a black actress who is just incredible and I remember it was one scene where she kind of stood up for me and reminded me that it's not okay to let some things just slide. Sometimes you need to go a little bit more outspoken and she's just amazing."
Deleted - Shane Reid was almost kept in the movie as a voice on the phone.
Source: Rough Cut Podcast, 36:35-36:40
Deleted - Slimer licks someone.
Source: Report All Ghosts!, 49:38-49:41
--Digital erasures/additions/changes in Trailers/Movie--
--Not Filmed--
"We had a more expansive concept earlier on where a lot of the action at the beginning of the third act spilled out much wider."
Source: The Wrap
--Unknown if Filmed--
Doll Owner is credited in end credits. Had a cut scene after Harold's wife?
Considered Melody floating but decided on her walking.
Source: THR
Podcast getting on official name patch on his flight suit
--What we know--
--Deleted Scenes seen in previews, B-roll, special features, books--
1904
Trimmed - Firefighters had more scenes
"my part got cut way down in the edit."
Source: Brandon Burke reply
SEWER DRAGON
Trimmed - Manhole cover landing in the road during the Sewer Dragon chase.
Source: Final Trailer (3/1/24), screengrab
MAYOR'S OFFICE
Trimmed - Voice-over from Peck: "They called themselves Ghostbusters. According to these hacks, they saved the world. No eyewitnesses. And who is found to carry the torch? Descendants of Egon Spengler." and the end of the scene ("Overruled." "Sustained.")
Source: Domestic Trailer (1/29/24)
Trimmed - Winston was present in the Mayor's office.
Source: Major Films, Screen X trailer, 24 second mark
Deleted - The NY1 News segment came together in post and originally the dialogue was all from Mayor Peck.
Source: Rough Cut Podcast, 20:26-21:01
Alternate: They kept changing the amount jokes vs. story in the Mayor scene.
Source: Rough Cut Podcast, 23:23-23:37
BOOKSTORE
Trimmed - Exterior shot of people walking into Ray's Occult Books to sell their possessed items
Source: International Trailer (1/29/24), screengrab
Trimmed - Some of Aykroyd's material at Ray's Occult: "Here, we pay top dollar for your possessed possessions" and "I've never seen anything like this...at all."
Source: International Trailer (1/29/24)
Deleted - Podcast smashed more items
Source: PukieDoug
Alternate - Kumail's "Have it for forty" is also different in the film, where he says something to the effect of, "You can have everything in the box for forty bucks."
Source: International Trailer (1/29/24)
Deleted - An effect involving the jar of mood slime
Source: PukieDoug
ATTIC
Deleted - Shot of Trevor shooting at Slimer who is off-screen
Source:
Deleted - Trevor finding the vintage magazine.
Source: Domestic Trailer (1/29/24), screengrab
FIREHOUSE (Containment Unit walls are broken)
Alternate - Gary and Callie examining the frozen containment unit in the basement. (alternate angle)
Source: promotional still
Deleted - Gary and Peter in the basement surrounded by heaters. Gary asks Peter what he would have done "back in the day". He replies, "I would have showered, and shaved, and hit the clubs." Gary sarcastically comments, "That was really helpful. Thank you."
Source: promotional still, TV spot (fourth)
Washington Square Park
Alternate - Melody says "Oh, don’t worry. I get it. I’m like a hundred years old. You got a name?" instead of "I've had a lot of time to practice. So, got a name?"
Source: THR
PRC INTRO
Trimmed - Peter being present during introduction to Paranormal Research Center and Pukey intro
Source: trailer
Deleted - Phosphor replaced with Bonesy.
Source: Doug
PRC PETER NADEEM
Deleted - Peter dialogue was cut out.
Quote: "REID: The Venkman/Nadeem scene with the pasta strainer on his head. Nadeem getting more and more upset - and the fire behind him is starting to ignite. What was really hard about the scene was that there was quite a bit of dialogue cut out of it. In the script, Venkman is only supposed to throw the pen at Nadeem once, but because Bill does it in different ways and do them at different times, when you took some of the dialogue out you still needed to convey what’s happening with the fire."
Source: Boris FX
LIBRARY
Trimmed - Ray telling Phoebe and Podcast, "Grab your juice boxes."
Source: TV spot (fourth)
Deleted - Hubert guiding Ray, Phoebe, and Podcast to the hidden area of the library in an elevator.
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23), screengrab
Alternate - Photos of stone reliefs documenting Garraka's history being unfolded by Hubert in the library. (In the final film, his history is done as an animation.)
Source: Japanese Trailer (2/28/24), screengrab
LAB (pre-Garakka)
Deleted - Lars's line "Ever since you brought in this orb, strange things have been occurring."
Source: International Trailer (1/29/24)
DEEP FREEZE
Deleted - Ray telling Gary and Callie about Death Chill in kitchen, and Grooberson and Callie are being informed of the Death Chill ("Like, literally scared to death?" "That's messed up."). Trevor's trimmed line, "You know, I wasn't sure about you guys wanting to move to this place. Garbage, ghosts, garbage ghosts..." is potentially also from this scene, as it is presumably a reference to what happens at the library. Trevor's "Do we have a chopper?"
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23), Domestic Trailer (1/29/24),
Trimmed - Gary sings the Ghostbusters song at the tail end of the scene with him and Callie in the bedroom.
Source: "Fight" TV spot, clip
Deleted - At the start is a shot of Gary saying, "We ain’t afraid of no ghost" as he walks out of the bedroom.
Source: "Everything in This Place is Haunted" social media ad (3/22/2024)
Deleted - Traffic and people freezing on the streets of Eldridge and Broome, which was filmed on June 10 & 11, 2023. Extras running and pretending to be cold, with gusts of wind being produced by big fans and leaf blowers, and a little girl holding an ice cream cone.
Source: Spook Central
Deleted - Close up of teens in the Wonder Wheel cabin at Coney Island.
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23), screengrab
LAB (Garakka attack)
Alternate - Lucky yells "Get away from her!" but in the movie yells "Hey, asshole!"
Source:
Deleted - Lucky being frozen + freezing right up to her eyeball.
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23), screengrab
FINALE
Deleted - Scenes before the preparations for the final siege on the firehouse come together
Source: Collider, Gil Kenan
Trimmed - Trevor asking Lars, "Wait, do we even have weapons?" "We have lots of weapons."
Source: TV spot (second)
Deleted - The family on the firehouse roof in parkas. (Only Trevor and Lucky go up there.)
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23), screengrab
Trimmed - Trevor examining a string of Slimer's ectoplasm dripping from the ceiling.
Source: promotional still
Trimmed - Lars saying "Oh no!" and then ending up on the floor covered in Pukey's ectoplasm
Source: TV spot (third)
Alternate - When Death Chill creeps up to Firehouse in trailer, No Ghost sign is added.
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23)
Deleted - Gary, Callie and Phoebe at window. Callie firing out the window
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23),
Deleted - Ray says "no point trappin' we be zappin'" (?)
Source: B-roll
Trimmed - Ray piloting the drone trap. Peter says "That was some talent" at end of Garakka fight
Source: "Raving" TV spot
PLACEMENT IN MOVIE UNKNOWN
Deleted - Whatever was filmed outside the Community Medical Center of Elmhurst Hospital at 80th Street and 41st Avenue in Queens on June 14, 2023.
Deleted - Kids playing in an opened fire hydrant. (also filmed on Eldridge and Broome)
Source: Teaser Trailer (11/8/23), screengrab
Deleted - Janine answering the phone with her trademark line, "Ghostbusters. Whadda ya want?" and pressing the "We Got One" button on her desk.
Source: Domestic Trailer (1/29/24), screengrab and Final Trailer (3/1/24), screengrab
Deleted/alternate - Winston's v/o: "All over New York City, ghost attacks are on the rise, and we are the only ones equipped to fight back." Note that this flows so well into the "Welcome to the new Paranormal Research Center. We've spent 40 years trapping them..." bit that is an alternate to what's in the film that I wouldn't be surprised if this was voice-over recorded just for the trailer.
Source: International Trailer (1/30/24)
Deleted - What was filmed in Tring Museum
Source: imgur and Logan Kim
Deleted - Phoebe and Melody take the subway.
Source: Emily Lind instagram
Deleted - More Pukey. "There were some other shots done of Pukey that diddnt make the Final Cut"
Source: Doug, GBFans post
Deleted - Lucky stands up for Winston and reminds him it's not okay to let some things slide and be more outspoken.
Source: Cup of Soul Show, 12:08 mark
Quote: "They're all truly truly talented and I have to really give a big shout out to Celeste O'Connor who is in the movie and she plays Lucky but she's a black actress who is just incredible and I remember it was one scene where she kind of stood up for me and reminded me that it's not okay to let some things just slide. Sometimes you need to go a little bit more outspoken and she's just amazing."
Deleted - Shane Reid was almost kept in the movie as a voice on the phone.
Source: Rough Cut Podcast, 36:35-36:40
Deleted - Slimer licks someone.
Source: Report All Ghosts!, 49:38-49:41
--Digital erasures/additions/changes in Trailers/Movie--
--Not Filmed--
"We had a more expansive concept earlier on where a lot of the action at the beginning of the third act spilled out much wider."
Source: The Wrap
--Unknown if Filmed--
Doll Owner is credited in end credits. Had a cut scene after Harold's wife?
Considered Melody floating but decided on her walking.
Source: THR
Podcast getting on official name patch on his flight suit
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