Welcome to the official blog for Ghostbusters: Regeneration, the “soft reboot” novel set 26 years years after the events of Ghostbusters II.
The story can be read completely free on Wattpad.com here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/266415437-ghostbusters-regeneration
The official blurb for the story is below. Hope you enjoy the book if you do choose to read it!
In 2001, supernatural activity across New York City had all but evaporated, forcing the famous team of paranormal investigators & eliminators, the Ghostbusters, out of business. With their name tarnished by an increasingly exploitative media division overseen by one Peter Venkman, the people of New York have largely forgotten about the real-life exploits of the City’s three-time saviours.
But there are some who still remember.
15 years later, Melissa Coleman is still inspired by her childhood passion for the Ghostbusters and all things paranormal. Risking her dead-end desk job at one of Manhattan’s biggest news networks, she breaks ranks to investigate what may be the first supernatural occurrence in the City in over a decade. Along with her reclusive former best friend and a witness to said paranormal event, she is quickly drawn into a chain of events that will see her cross paths with her aged childhood heroes, help suppress a new paranormal uprising, and bust a few ghosts from her past.
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Character Details: Considered an underachiever by her strict parents, we find Hiroko at the start of the story basically coasting through life and still residing in her childhood home. As well as being a hardcore fan of both the Ghostbusters and the supernatural from a young age, she has an affinity for electronics and technology. She's none too happy when her former best friend Melissa - whom she hasn't spoken with in over five years - reappears in her life, but cannot resist joining her in investigating the first paranormal occurrence New York has seen in over 15 years.
My Thoughts: I admit that I've not seen Ellen Wong in anything but Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, but she was just so charming in that film that I couldn't pick anyone but her. She displayed both an innocence and a bitterness in that performance that makes me believe that she would be wonderful as the initially jaded yet easily excitable Hiroko.
Character Details: Melissa, a disgruntled copywriter for a news station, gets caught up in what appears to be the first supernatural incident in New York in over 15 years. This leads to her teaming up with her former best friend Hiroko Hamano - who was similarly fanatic about the Ghostbusters and the supernatural growing up - and eventually crossing paths with her khaki-suited childhood heroes.
My Thoughts: I think Brie Larson is a fantastic fit for Melissa, who is basically the main character of the book. She can pull off the dry delivery & sense of humour required, can be convincingly tough but also believably tender, and yet she has an 'everyman' / 'everywoman' kind of vibe to her. It also doesn't hurt that she's around the same age as Melissa and has the same natural hair colour as her.
This is the first part in a series of 'dream casting' posts where I talk about who I'd cast as the characters of Regeneration if I was adapting the my novel into a movie. Let's start with the key returning characters.
Character Details: 15 years ago, Ghostbusters closed its doors due to a dearth of paranormal activity. With the company's name tarnished by an increasingly exploitative media division overseen by one Peter Venkman, the people of New York have largely forgotten about the real-life exploits of the city's three-time saviours.
Now, in 2016, a new threat throws NYC into chaos once again. With the Ghostbusters team separated - not to mention older and more out of shape - Ray Stantz needs help in a hurry. What happened to the other original members of the team, and is there bad blood between them? You'll have to read the story to find out!
My Thoughts: In a perfect world, all the original actors would be back in their respective roles, including the late, great Harold Ramis. There's not much else to note here except that the roles in the novel were written with the ages of the actors in mind in 2016. So, to paraphrase Ray in the book, they're allowed to be 'flabby and broken down'!
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If you’re hyped about Afterlife and enjoy reading, consider giving my (free!) Ghostbusters novel a look. Regeneration is my take on a Ghostbusters sequel that (coincidentally) shares some similarities with the new movie.
Rough sketches of the front cover for Ghostbusters: Regeneration. I wanted to give these to a real artist so they could create a Drew Struzan-style movie poster-looking cover. Alas, I wasn’t able to find anyone who could do this for reasonable cost, so I had to make something simple in Photoshop.
In the course of making Regeneration, I made a number of sketches and diagrams to help me plan out and describe various things in the story.
This is one of the better things I drew; my original vision for the Ecto-2. Much like the Ecto-1, it was meant to be built from a Cadillac, namely a 2016 Escalade. I later realised how common these cars are in the US so I changed the story so the model is never defined. It didn't really carry the spirit (no pun intended) of the Ecto-1 to have the Ecto-2 to be made from such a common vehicle.
The dome-like device on its roof was supposed to be a larger version of Hiroko's PKE lure device. This was going to be a key element to the plot at one point before the finale of the story was altered.
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If you’re jazzed about the latest trailer for Afterlife, consider giving my Ghostbusters story a look. In the works since 2016, Regeneration is my take on a Ghostbusters III soft-reboot. A new chapter goes live every week on Wattpad (link below):
While writing my story, I used my Ghostbusters LEGO to help plan some of the scenes. I even created several of the new characters using extra parts.
P.S. 12 chapters of Ghostbusters: Regeneration are now online! https://www.wattpad.com/story/266415437-ghostbusters-regeneration
Five chapters of the story are now live on Wattpad. Here’s a little teaser of what’s to come in a future chapter.
'What the hell?' Melissa uttered to herself in surprise.
She stopped the car alongside the security booth, unable to leave the lot due to a lowered barrier. Scanning her card at the necessary point would automatically raise the barrier, but she was supposed to be leaving that with an attendant or someone else from building security.
She powered down the car and stepped out of it, peering in the direction that the attendant had run to see if there was any sign of him coming back. There did not seem to be anyone else around the sprawling parking lot either, but that was not out of the ordinary for 11am on a work day.
She closed her car door and stood for a few moments, hoping that someone would emerge to both let her out of the lot and assure her that something terrible had not just happened. There were still no signs of life.
She turned her head to look into the booth. The small windowed room had a counter that ran around the interior walls, a couple of desk chairs, and a raised control panel on the counter. Seeing the booth door still hanging open from the attendant's hasty exit, Melissa considered going inside and figuring out which of the panel's buttons raised the barriers. If she could manage to do this and leave her card behind, there would be no need to awkwardly explain why she was handing it in. Security staff were likely the only people permitted to go inside the booth, however.
What're they gonna to do, fire me? She thought to herself.
Melissa looked around one last time to make sure no one was nearby, then stepped towards the open door. Moving through the doorway with her eyes on the buttons, she noticed that there was an empty upturned doughnut box to one side of the panel. A smattering of crumbs of various shapes and sizes surrounded the box, though both these and the container itself seemed to be caked in a thin layer of jelly. Melissa was not aware of the type of doughnut that had a green, syrupy filling. It made her wonder just how slobby these parking attendants must be to get this viscous gunk everywhere.
Shifting her gaze from the doughnut box disaster zone, she began to closely study the buttons and the text on the control panel. Just as she thought she had found the correct button to raise the barrier, she suddenly became aware of a confluence of strange noises emanating from behind her. Baby-like vocal grunts could be heard mixed together with the sounds of rustling, chewing, and squelching.
She began to turn her head to look over her left shoulder. What she glimpsed out of the corner of her eye forced her to turn around and jolt back against the counter in fright. A moving green mass was positioned low to the ground, in front of an open mini-fridge that was situated under the opposite counter. This translucent potato-like shape was hovering unnaturally a few centimetres off the floor, using its comparatively spindly arms to stuff its large mouth with the contents of the fridge.
Melissa's instinctual reaction to flee quickly faded as she realised what this glowing blob was.
It's a ghost! An actual, freaking ghost!
The lifeform looked like the very same type that the Ghostbusters had caught on their famous first job at the Sedgewick Hotel. Ray Stantz had nicknamed the original one Slimer, mainly due to this type's penchant for leaving copious amounts of ectoplasm on anything it came into contact with, people included. This sort, a Class VI if Melissa remembered her paranormal classifications correctly, normally posed little direct danger to humans, presenting a threat only to edible objects that happened to be nearby. This Slimer sub-species was usually documented as having an obsession with food, perhaps reflecting what its primary drive had been when it had been alive.
Melissa slowly crouched low to the ground, not in a protective manner but to get a better look at the glowing green spirit. The messy little beast was either yet to notice her or too involved in what it was doing to care about her presence. It was quickly demolishing what looked to be the packed lunches of several security staff, leaving copious amounts of food shards and ectoplasmic pools in the aftermath.
As Melissa observed the entity begin to messily demolish a foot-long sub, she felt tears beginning to well in her eyes. She had dreamed of seeing a real supernatural occurrence for as long as she could remember. Now she was finally witnessing one she could not help but be overwhelmed with emotion. She found herself filled not just with awe but also a deep sense of validation, as if this was the moment her entire life had been building to.
She chuckled softly to herself as she wiped some moisture from her eyes. She realised how strange she would seem to a casual observer, getting emotional at the sight over an undead blob monster. Hiroko was the only person she knew who would understand such a reaction. She wished her friend could be here right now to witness this with her.
Melissa had to wonder why this disgusting yet wonderful beast was here. It had been well over a decade since the last confirmed sighting of a paranormal entity in New York. Did she really just happen to be in the right place at the right time to see something this incredibly rare? Could this even be the famous Slimer himself? She wished her smartphone was with her so she could capture this moment on video, to prove both to the world and to herself that this was not some sort of trick or hallucination.
Just as she was giving serious consideration to sneakily retrieving her phone, she was distracted by a sudden and loud set of sounds. From outside in the street, she heard what sounded like the screeching of heavy tires followed by a few blasts of car horns. Almost as quickly as they had begun, the sounds ceased, leaving only the background level of city noises once again. Melissa stood and looked out of the front of the booth's window, noticing that multiple cars had slowed to a stop on the road. By all indications, it seemed like there had just been some sort of traffic accident.
Before I adopted the visual design seen on the final cover, this was the ‘branding’ I went with for a good long time. The larger piece is wallpaper size; 1920x1080.
P.S. Chapter two of the story is now up on Wattpad! Two chapters instead of one may be going up next week, so stay tuned for that.
I made some other imagery based on my cover art design, if only for my own usage. The first was this desktop wallpaper, which I’ve included here in 1920x1080 and 1800x1200 dimensions.
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Here’s the cover for the book. Unless I can find anyone to make me something better, this will be the permanent cover.
I’m going to start publishing the story this weekend on Wattpad, with one chapter being released every Saturday. I probably won’t post a link to every single chapter on this Tumblr, but I will post the first one as well as miscellaneous stuff relating to the story here such as sketches and photos.
