Ghostbusters: Franchise

In honor of Ghostbusters' 40th Anniversary here are four ideas that have been bouncing around in my head ever since I realized that, in the first movie, Venkman said "The franchise rights alone will make us right beyond our wildest dreams."

These are merely ideas and I do not expect to be involved in their further development creation and I'm putting them out there just because I can for the love of the stories, the concepts, and the ideas that Ghostbusters fosters in and of itself.

One of the core concepts of the entire franchise is a kind of cross-generational justice and overcoming obstacles with a combination of teamwork, technology, and willpower. 

Rather like filmmaking itself. 

Courtesy Variety

Ghostbusters: Neon Spectres

Three best friends, Diego Willis, Walter Sanchez, and Leena Tacarelli buy protonbacks at an auction and hang out their shingle in Los Angeles. 

Willis is a software programmer with an eye for detail. Sanchez is the hardware/industrial design genius and Tacarelli is the heavy machine type.

With their abilities, they build out not just their own containment unit but a detection system that uses the power grid that detect spikes in ecto-activity throughout the city. 

Willis realizes something sinister. The ectop-plasmic activities match up, nearly 1:1 with LAPD activity...

Ghostbusters: Mammoth

In Siberia, the spirits of ancient creatures roam at night.

They don't attack unless provoked. 

An oil company has provoked them. 

Dr. Harriet Gleason, Dr. Jane Buscema, Mick "Bravo" Bilson and Ursula Cain accept a contract to investigate and if possible, remove the ghosts. 

This turns out to be easy. Too easy. They capture the first mammoth spirit easily and the others with the same level of ease over the course of five evenings. 

Too Easy!

Actually. Way too easy.  

The mammoth's spirits were trying to stop the oil company from breaking an ancient shamanistic structure that was holding far more dangerous spirits. When the oil company breaches it something far worse reveals itself.

Something could destroy the world... 

Ghostbusters: Iron Bars 

Leeana Walter is a special investigator who often doesn't even bother with the proton pack and trap but uses enhanced PKE systems to investigate the events that have landed people in jail. 

She is funded entirely via open source and posts her ghost testimonies across social media platforms after she transfers them from the film, - the surest way to prove their authenticity - to turn the tide of public opinion which often moves far faster than the courts and can make the courts move faster.

She has an above-average track record however, one man she shouldn't save was Lewis Paul who was convicted of murdering his own children and his wife. 

Walter could not find their spirits to record their testimony.  After Paul's execution, he pays her a visit to tell her that now he knows who did it.

It's a conspiracy that goes all the way to the governor's office...

  

Ghostbusters: Kingdom of the Damned

Six teenagers in a soccer team from the Democratic Republic of Congo led by their charismatic team captain Masamba Bokiaga find proton packs on eBay and use them to end the tyranny from beyond the grave of Leopold II of Belgium.

Like that's really it for this one. It doesn't need much more than that. 

You take the classic trope of kids fighting evil and move it to the Congo and have them fight one of the most well-known evil mother fuckers in the history of evil mother fuckers.