Coover5 wrote: ↑April 28th, 2021, 6:59 pm QUESTION FOR EVERYONE
What fan produced material are you most looking forward to when Ghostbusters Afterlife is produced? Fan fiction? Fan art? Replica props?
I think I'm most looking forward to Alex Newborn's deep dive into the film. I love his videos and hope this will revive the (not really) dead "Ghostbusters Pet Peeves" video series.
The Ghostbusters 2 documentary from the people who did “Cleanin’ Up The Town”. That’s, no joke, one of my most anticipated upcoming movies. To see an an entire feature length documentary dedicated to GB2 is something I’ve wanted for decades. More so than GB1. Ghostbusters 1 & it’s history/production is ground that’s been covered so many times that there weren’t many new tidbits I learned from the documentary. But GB2? With all the ILM sequences that had maybe or maybe not completed FX that got cut, the crazy production....I can’t wait.
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Here’s something some of you may find interesting.
I’ve been reading J.W. Rinzler’s phenomenal Star Wars “Making of” books and the one on Return of the Jedi is pretty fascinating. I get the impression that VFX guru’s Dennis Muren & Richard Edlund did NOT like each other or get along while working at ILM. So after work on Jedi is complete Edlund leaves ILM & takes a bunch of ILM employees(and equipment) with him to form the visual effects company BOSS films(this story is told in the Cleaning up the town documentary). The first movie BOSS does visual effects for is Ghostbusters. Some at ILM see this as a huge betrayal. Former friends & colleagues are now competitors & now BOSS has what will eventually become the movie of the summer that everyone talks about. Not Temple of Doom. Ghostbusters.
At the 1985 Oscars 3 films got nominated for the best VFX Oscar for movies released in 1984, Ghostbusters(BOSS), 2010(BOSS) & Temple of Doom(ILM). Temple of Doom wins which was Dennis Muren’s gig. Some of you may know that after Ghostbusters came out Ivan kinda bad mouthed the effects(which is insane given the time crunch).
Soo 5 years later when Ghostbusters 2 comes along, who does the visual effects? Not Richard Edlund & BOSS films. Nope. Dennis Muren & ILM. Now officially Dennis says he took the gig because he wanted to see how Ivan made his comedies. But no way do I buy that.
I think this was a middle finger to Edlund for leaving, forming a competing company & poaching ILM talent. Not to mention that finally, once & for all, people could see these two titans of visual effects tackle the exact same franchise from competing companies. I think Dennis Muren wanted to show up Richard Edlund. When you think about it Ghostbusters 2 seems like an odd gig for ILM’s top VFX supervisor to take on.
So this is a really long & convoluted way of saying I’m extremely interested to hear what Dennis Muren has to say in that documentary.