Ghostbusters remade

May 5th, 2008

The Filmspotting podcast recently invited listeners to recast Ghostbusters.

The best response by far was Ghostbusters: London Calling by a poster called frozenhamster:

An Edgar Wright Film 

In this highly anticipated sequel/re-imagining  of the original Ghostbusters England is about to get slimed! When ghosts get a passport to Europe they take London by storm and it’s up to a special team of British parapsychologists to save the city. Killing ghosts and making jokes, all before tea time.

Steve Coogan - Dr. Peter Venkman
Simon Pegg - Dr. Raymond Stantz
Martin Freeman - Dr. Egon Spengler
Nick Frost - Winston Zeddmore
Cate Blanchett - Dana Barrett
Paddy Considine - Louis Tully
Emma Thompson - Janine Melnitz
Christopher Eccleston - Walter Peck
Bill Nighy - Mayor
Ricky Gervais - Male Test Subject
Anna Friel - Female Test Subject
Thandie Newton - Gozer
Edgar Wright - Zuul/Slimer (voice) (uncredited)

I think Ricky Gervais would be better as Louis Tully,1, but that’s still a pretty solid cast.

Another poster by the name of minerwerks found a cast list from an alternate timeline where the original screenplay somehow ended up in Woody Allen’s hands:

Tony Roberts - Dr. Peter Venkman
Woody Allen - Dr. Raymond Stantz
Jeff Daniels - Dr. Egon Spengler
Christopher Walken - Winston Zeddemore
Diane Keaton - Dana Barrett
Paul Simon - Louis Tully
Mia Farrow - Janine Melnitz
Jeff Goldblum - Walter Peck
Howard Cosell - Mayor
Daniel Stern - Male Student
Mariel Hemmingway - Female Student
Shelley Duvall - Gozer (and the voice)
Woody Allen - Zuul / Slimer (voice) (uncredited)

I’d have paid good money to see that film.

  1. For those of us who haven’t seen the film for a while, that’s the character played by Rick Moranis who ends up being possessed and becomes The Keymaster. ↩

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2 Responses to “Ghostbusters remade”

  1. Kris Says:
    May 6th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    I must speak up on behalf of all Australians and point out that Cate Blanchett is not, in fact, a Pom.

  2. John Says:
    May 7th, 2008 at 12:02 am
    A good point, well made. Though in fairness the original poster didn’t say the cast was British, merely that the film was set in London and that the Ghostbusters themselves were British.

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