EXCLUSIVE – Read an EXCLUSIVE extract from Cormac McCarthy’s failed Ghostbusters 3 script.
American novelist and Counselor screenwriter Cormac McCarthy new version of Ghostbusters 3 was ultimately rejected but the Studio Exec have got our hands on the first draft which (interestingly enough) was written in crayon.
INT. FIRE STATION. NIGHT.
A phone rings in the desolate waste of the night. A man. A man answers the phone.
Hello.
You know what there is?
No. I don’t know.
It’s a ghost. There’s a ghost. And I thought, I thought, who am I gonna call? Then it came to me. I’m gonna call Ghostbusters.
What did you do next?
This is it. This is me. Now. Calling Ghostbusters. This is Ghostbusters, right?
Only in a deeply painful way. But yes. I suppose it is.
EXT. NEW YORK STREET. NIGHT.
The famous Ghostbusters mobile drives with the siren wailing and the light flashing.
INT. FIRE STATION. NIGHT.
Venkman, Ray and Spengler sit. They are covered in slime and look exhausted and distressed by the moral efficacy, or otherwise, of their deliberations.
The Ghost.
Busted.
You got slimed Peter. Aren’t you cold?
The truth has no temperature.
I don’t understand. Are you cold or not?
In a word, ‘women’.
No, I still don’t get it.
Just get me a towel.
He pauses for the laughter he will never hear. Ray passes him a towel. He fails to use it.
FIN
Ghostbusters 3 will be released in 2017.