20 Failed Movie Plans That'll Ruin Your Day
3. Ghostbusters III: Hellbent
Following the success of Ghostbusters and its immediate sequel, Dan Aykroyd wasted little time formulating a script for another film in the franchise.
That film, which he titled Ghostbusters: Hellbent, followed a wild and ambitious premise: Sent to Hell in an attempt to stop an invasion of spirits and ghosts into New York, the team (Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Aykroyd) would come face-to-face with a dark, demonic mirror of Manhattan.
If that doesn't fill you with excitement - that cast, that action, that silliness and horror - I don't know what will.
Despite the promise, though, and the fact audiences would surely have clambered to see cinema's greatest ghost-fighting vigilantes back in the swing of things, Hellbent never came to be, primarily because of Murray's disinterest. The script did form the basis of Ghostbusters: The Video Game in 2009, but it's not the same as what could have been.