Dan Aykroyd Reveals What the Original Ghostbusters Costumes Looked Like

The Ghostbusters astir wore helmets.

Franchise co-creator Dan Aykroyd, who besides played Ray Stantz, revealed the archetypal costume plan for 1984’s Ghostbusters successful a station connected X.

“My archetypal conception for Ghostbusters jumpsuits and packs, illustrated by John Daveikis. Glad we mislaid the helmet,” Aykroyd wrote.

The colour of the outfit is antithetic from the khaki flightsuits yet worn successful the ‘84 movie. The proton battalion is simply a antithetic size and signifier than the last version. The helmet itself looks thing similar those worn by Rebel pilots successful Star Wars.

My archetypal conception for Ghostbusters jumpsuits and packs, illustrated by John Daveikis. Glad we mislaid the helmet.#Ghostbusters pic.twitter.com/6I7svGdHM3

The Ghostbusters logo is somewhat akin to the final, iconic mentation with a reddish ellipse connected a achromatic background, wrong of which is simply a achromatic shade with a reddish diagonal slash done it.

Aykroyd co-wrote the archetypal Ghostbusters screenplay with Harold Ramis, who would spell connected to play Egon Spengler. The movie was astir called Ghostblasters oregon Ghoststoppers owed to rights issues.

For much connected the (largely) chartless past of the Ghostbusters franchise, larn astir the unmade Ghostbusters 3 and however Ghostbusters impacted the ending of Marvel's Avengers.

The past Ghostbusters movie released was 2024’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which our reviewer Tom Jorgensen scored 4/10, penning successful his reappraisal that the movie was truthful atrocious “the franchise should beryllium enactment successful acold retention until idiosyncratic tin fig retired however to bash justness to the cardinal conception without Murray, Aykroyd, Hudson, and Potts dropping by to forestall wide hysteria.”