Ghostbusters videogame trying to make a comeback

[Steven W]

Some videos have surfaced that appear to show a new Ghostbusters game! Of course, they could be totally fake.

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[[GSV]Trig]

Why would someone wanna spend the time to make them vids if it was fake?!?

[Steven W]

Why would someone wanna spend the time to make them vids if it was fake?!?

I'm with you, but without an official announcement you never know. If it is true, it's looking good!

[Clunk]

Excellent! I think we are about due for another film as well perhaps?

Who ya gonna call?...........Derek Akorah!

[father smurf]

so long as its beter then the last film

[Steven W]

Anonymous source: The clips do show a genuine game, in development by Zootfly for the X-Box 360.

[Steven W]

Confirmed:

We are very glad to see the overwhelming response to the Ghostbusters prototype movies. What you’ve seen is indeed in-game footage of early prototypes on the Xbox 360, running on ZootFly’s proprietary engine. Due to licensing issues, further development of the Ghostbusters game hit a bump on the road, but everybody here at ZootFly is working actively on resolving the challenges with the owners of the Ghostbusters IP.

[Blademrk]

A problem arose during filming when it was discovered that a show was produced in 1975 by Filmation for CBS called The Ghost Busters, starring Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker. (It should be noted that this is written as two words instead of one word like the 1984 movie). Columbia Pictures prepared a list of alternative names just in case the rights could not be secured. But during the filming of the crowd for the final battle, the extras were all chanting "Ghostbusters," which reportedly inspired the producers to insist that the studio buy the rights to the name.

There was also an animated show based on the CBS show called "Ghostbusters" which used the descendents of the stage show (I've got the first DVD of this series at home, and I'm looking for the rest) which is why the animated version of the film was called the Real Ghostbusters.

This is also, probably, the licensing hold up at the moment.