Alphagaia wrote: ↑May 29th, 2019, 1:53 am Also, regarding budget, let's not forget Vigo, Rowan and Gozer were just played by humans in a simple costume.
Though when we start looking in detail, what savings may've been made by casting humans to play the respective antagonists in the three past movies have kinda been offset by the visual and effects elements used to make those villains supernatural:
•After being played by Slavitza Jovan, Gozer then materialised as Stay Puft, neccesitating the production of at least one suit, several heads with animation features, a large scale model of Central Park West and Central Park for visual shots, and effects compositing into live-action sequences.
•As noted above, Vigo's appearance was predominantly through visual effects sequences whilst he was trapped in his painting, and then there were the prosthetics elements for his transformation (thought these were worn by Dan Aykroyd rather than Wilhelm Von Homburg.
•While a good portion of Rowan's appearance was in human, or possessed human form, the effects-heavy destructor sequence would work against what savings were made by having Neil Casey, Melissa McCarthy and Chris Hemsworth filling the role.