eth3rton
06-05-2009, 07:47 PM
The New York Times sat down with Dan Aykroyd and talked (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/arts/31schi.html?_r=2&hp) about the upcoming Ghostbusters game.
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Now the Ghostbusters are aiming their proton packs at a fresh generation through a newly ascendant medium that was only in its infancy when the Ectomobile first wailed out of a TriBeCa firehouse: video games. Hoping to break with the decades-long litany of slipshod interactive movie tie-ins, Atari, the game’s publisher, has approached Ghostbusters: the Video Game as a major production in its own right. In a reversal of the traditional entertainment food chain, the game, to be released June 16, will come to market even as planning for the long-awaited third “Ghostbusters” film remains in the earliest stages. The expectation is that the game will both revitalize and expand interest in the franchise ahead of a new movie.
Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson — the other three original Ghostbusters — each lent their faces and voices to the new game, as have Annie Potts, as the secretary Janine, and William Atherton, as the odious Walter Peck. (Sigourney Weaver, also known as the Gatekeeper, and Rick Moranis, a k a the Keymaster, did not.) But it is Mr. Aykroyd, 56, who remains most invested in the Ghostbusters universe. After all, he invented it.
I am genuinely excited about this game! Can't wait!
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Now the Ghostbusters are aiming their proton packs at a fresh generation through a newly ascendant medium that was only in its infancy when the Ectomobile first wailed out of a TriBeCa firehouse: video games. Hoping to break with the decades-long litany of slipshod interactive movie tie-ins, Atari, the game’s publisher, has approached Ghostbusters: the Video Game as a major production in its own right. In a reversal of the traditional entertainment food chain, the game, to be released June 16, will come to market even as planning for the long-awaited third “Ghostbusters” film remains in the earliest stages. The expectation is that the game will both revitalize and expand interest in the franchise ahead of a new movie.
Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson — the other three original Ghostbusters — each lent their faces and voices to the new game, as have Annie Potts, as the secretary Janine, and William Atherton, as the odious Walter Peck. (Sigourney Weaver, also known as the Gatekeeper, and Rick Moranis, a k a the Keymaster, did not.) But it is Mr. Aykroyd, 56, who remains most invested in the Ghostbusters universe. After all, he invented it.
I am genuinely excited about this game! Can't wait!