With Ghostbusters, producer-director Ivan Reitman and company performed a minor miracle by delivering a major effects production in less than a year - from concept to release. The result was the most successful comedy in film history. For the sequel - five years later - production and postproduction schedules were even more intense. Physical effects engineer Chuck Gaspar was on hand for his second Ghostbusters outing and Industrial Light & Magic stepped in fresh to handle the visual effects - delivering not only a full array of ghostly entities, but also a subterranean river of slime and an ambulatory Statue of Liberty. As the production continued to grow, other effects facilities - including Apogee - were brought in to absorb the over-flow. Effects team members across the spectrum - augmented by screenwriting actors Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis - trace the evolution and execution of the long-awaited Ghostbusters II. |
