Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis maybe having the spotlight shined on them by Atari for writing script to the Ghostbusters videogame, but Aykroyd reveals the truth.
Developer Terminal Reality in fact did most of the hard work on the story, while Aykroyd and Ramis handled ”little tiny structural things” to help revive ”the tone” of the original movie.
”In the beginning they came to me, and I said, ‘I encourage you, go ahead,’” recounts Aykroyd, speaking with the New York Times. ”They gave me the script. I took it. I rewrote it doing little tiny structural things, mostly bringing back the tone of the original dialogue and the vernacular - the terms, the idiom - but they really had it.
Two-thirds of it was there. Then they gave it to Harold. He did the same thing.”
Aykroyd and Ramis admit that Atari’s claim they wrote the script to the game is purely marketing ‘bunk’. ”The crassest way I can put it is that they couldn’t have paid us enough to give it the time and attention required to make it as funny as a feature film,” said Ramis.
There you have it. Terminal Reality are two-thirds the reason why the Ghostbusters videogame will be awesome.
Source: VG247
