![]() ![]() When the first trailers for Evolution debuted, the cry was instantaneous and unanimous: "It's Ghostbusters all over again!" ( Evolution director Reitman previously helmed Ghostbusters and its congenitally gimpy sequel). Truth of the matter is, if Evolution's serious incarnation bears any conceptual/structural similarity to this comedically retrofitted version (despite having access to it, I've never read the original script), I'm not sure it would have played as well as Reitman's often-smart homage to the cheese-ball, "gotta get the monster" flicks of decades past. When science fiction fans first heard about screenwriters David Diamond, David Weissman (both scripters of The Family Man) and Don Jakoby's (of Lifeforce and Blue Thunder repute.or ill pending on your perspective) hard SF/horror script being turned into a "comedy" by director Ivan Reitman, they winced in horror – in Hollywood, dilution rarely equals a good thing.
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