Ramis admits Ghosbusters comedy challenge
Title as funny as three full flicks
Writer and director Harold Ramis, co-creator of Ghostbusters, has admitted that making the new Ghostbusters 'funny' was as hard as penning three hit movies.
Ramis' credits include Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day, although it sounds as if he struggled somewhat with the new Ghostbusters game.
"Why do people keep watching Ghostbusters or any comedy film? It's not for the surprise. It's something that tickles them deep down and makes them feel good... In video games, it seems like the attraction of playing any videogame is that it gives you control over a world that you have no other access to... Once you've mastered a game, you kind of lose interest," he offered in a new interview.
"Repetition in a game, you're not only dealing with the repetition of the comedy, but you're dealing with the repetition of the gamers mastering the game, itself. To make a game so funny with so many comic alternatives, that would be like writing three hit movies. The scripts are impossibly long. That would be a considerable investment. And I was thinking if you wrote that much comedy, chances are you would put it in a feature film."
