Whoever Writes Ghostbusters 3 Should Steal These Ideas from Max Landis

After quickly denying a report from Nikki Finke that he’d been picked to pen Ghostbusters 3, Max Landis (Chronicle and The Death and Return of Superman) took to Twitter so share his ideas for Peter Vinkman, Ray Stanz and Winston Zeddmore.

And those ideas are pretty good.

Here’s the opening…

Haha a bunch of people asking what my Ghostbusters 3 pitch would've been. I never had a full one, just a skeleton I've goofed around with.

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014

My Ghostbusters 3 began in the 1920s with Ivo Shandor murdering a gluttonous associate to protect his cult after he has a moral objection.

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014

Shandor tells the overweight man that nothing can stop the coming of Gozer; first, the gate will open in 1984, then again twenty years later

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014

The fat man, who now has all the details of Shandor's plans, threatens to go to the police, and Shandor poisons him. It's scary, but…

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014

As Shandor escapes, we see that we're in the Sedgewick Hotel, and that the guy we just saw die… …Is Slimer. Cue theme. Show title.

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014

And here’s his full movie…

My full movie concerns several new teams (focusing on one), grown from the Ghostbusters Franchise which is now global (and going bankrupt)

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014

Ghostbusters have become a parody of themselves, there are barely twelve ghosts caught a year. People have forgotten what happened in NYC.

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014

Egon passed away, Venkman lives on an island, Winston retired rich. Only Ray Stantz is left in charge, and he's a terrible business man.

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014

In an effort to bring back business, an obsessed team whose station has been shut down attempts to summon a minor ghost… Mistake. Gozer.

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014

It's up to our hero team to stop the bad team, reunite the fractured franchises, and save our dimension from a very pissed off demigod.

— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) June 18, 2014

Sounds good to me. Just make the movie already.