Ghostbusters - based on a previous novel

Rating: Null/10 (14 April 2013)

Although the Movie was based on a script, the actual basic storyline was lifted directly from the novel SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD, by Diane Duane, which was released just the year before Ghostbusters. Also set in downtown New York City in modern times, SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD tells the story of the boy Kit and the girl Nita (changed to Zuul the Gatekeeper & Vinzclortho the Keymaster in Ghostbusters) who open a portal to an evil dimension on the roof of a skyscraper which allows an ancient deity called the Starsnuffer (called Gozer in Ghostbusters) and his minions to enter our world. In the grand finale of the book, the evil deity has taken on the form of a massive living statue which wreaks havoc on the city, which in turn is defeated by the most famous statues in the city who have come to life (depicted in Ghostbusters I & II as the Staypuft Marshmellow Man and the Statue of Liberty).