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The very first of the 2 (3?) films.

The title began as "Ghost-Smashers," Dan Aykroyd's original idea inwhich he and John Belushi traveled through time and space in pursuit of ghosts. When Belushi died in 1982, Richard Pryor was set up for his replacement as "Peter Venkman," but as we all know Bill Murray took his place instead. Then Aykroyd brought Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis onto the project, but Reitman wanted to set the script to local modern-day New York. Coming up with the basic lines of scientists losing their colledge grants, who turn to ghostbusting.

Aykroyd then went to Columbia Pictures (even without a finished script) in May 1983. Columbia "greenlighted" the film, (always a catch) but it had to be out in 1 yr, summer 1984 (cheeky !"£$%^&*~#!).