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Though interiors could have been easily
shot on soundstages in Los Angeles...
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a Columbia building
was turned into a "lab"...
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by production designer John DeCuir
as insurance against bad weather.
:12:10
If the film crew... costing $250,00
a day... couldn't shoot outdoors...
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they could film in the lab rather than
lose a day in their shooting schedule.
:12:53
Harold Ramis said, "In our first draft,
the Ghostbusters were tossed out...
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of a small New England college,
and then they go to New York.
:12:59
But we realized there was something
very vital about being in the city...
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so we began thinking maybe we should
start the film there.
:13:05
Prior to that, it had been set
in a nice converted farmhouse."
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The one key person
who had no input...
:13:50
into the script as written
was Bill Murray.
:13:52
"The whole script came together
in about three months," said Reitman.
:13:55
And during that period
Bill was off in India.
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But it was trust. 'Ghostbusters' was
the first film he'd ever committed to...