GHOSTBUSTERS III

This is the firehouse used in the original Ghostbusters films, from Google street maps.

In light of the spectral rumors of an Appatow-ian production of the next Ghostbusters sequel, BLDGBLOG imagines a script. It's heavy on architectural reference points, obviously. It is also insane. "People, horrifically, even call themselves – but it's the person they used to be, phoning out of the blue, warning them about future misdirection."

Turns out, "halfway through the film, the Ghostbusters realize that NYNEX isn't a phone system at all: it's the embedded nervous system of an angel – a fallen angel – and all those phone calls and dial-up modems in college dorm rooms and public pay phones are actually connected into the fiber-optic anatomy of a vast, ethereal organism that preceded the architectural build-up of Manhattan."

It's a pretty amazing, hilariously flushed out idea, careening through all sorts of mythologies and showing how modern copper wiring "also correspond to materials used in pre-Christian burial rituals throughout Mesopotamia."

"So the movie will involve everyone from Guglielmo Marconi to Thomas Edison to Alexander Graham Bell (he's the "ultimate sorcerer," Dan Ackroyd exclaims, laughing along with the rest of us), and it will make reference to the hundreds of architecturally interesting telephone substations scattered throughout the greater New York region."

I'd greenlight it.