Ghostbusters Alternate Titles Revealed

"Who ya gonna call?" "Ghoststoppers!" Doesn't have the same ring to it, does it? But that's one of the alternate names the 1984 movie Ghostbusters had as a back-up in case they couldn't use their preferred title. Outtakes from the movie reveal different names for the team were filmed in case director Ivan Reitman and Co. couldn't call the film Ghostbusters due to rights issues (more on that in a bit). The outtakes -- unearthed by /Film and posted on the official Ghostbusters YouTube channel -- for the scene where Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) shoot a TV commercial for their business reveal the two other names their team almost went by. One name was Ghoststoppers and the other was Ghostblasters. Other titles reportedly considered included Ghostbreakers and Ghostsmashers. The Ghostbusters commercial outtakes were first exclusively teased by IGN almost exactly a year ago but our clip (seen below) did not include the alternate team names. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/06/10/ghostbusters-tv-commercial-outtakes-exclusive"] During the production of Ghostbusters, director Ivan Reitman and co-writer/star Dan Aykroyd were aware that their movie might not ultimately be able to be called Ghostbusters due to rights issues. There was an existing kids TV series from the 1970s called The Ghost Busters that was owned by Universal. (Reitman's Ghostbusters is a Columbia Pictures property.) As recalled both in this Ghostbusters oral history as well as in an episode of the Netflix docuseries The Movies That Made Us, it took some wheeling and dealing between Columbia and Universal to hash out a deal. Fortunately, the new boss at Universal, Frank Price, was previously the boss at Columbia where one of the projects developed under him was none other than Ghostbusters. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-25-best-comedies&captions=true"] In the end, Columbia paid Universal $500,000 plus 1% of the movie's profits to be able to use Ghostbusters as the title of what is now widely considered one of the best comedies of all time. For more on the (largely) unknown history of the Ghostbusters franchise, learn about the unmade Ghostbusters 3 and how Ghostbusters impacted the ending of Marvel's Avengers. The surviving original Ghostbusters stars will return in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, opening in 2021.

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