Dan Aykroyd Explains Spooky Way He Came Up With Original ‘Ghostbusters’ Idea

Dan Aykroyd revealed he extracted the idea for the first “Ghostbusters” movie from a dentist who studied the paranormal. The comic actor revisited the roots of the 1984 horror comedy on “The Tonight Show” Monday to promote the new “Ghostbusters: Aftermath.” (Watch the video above.) Advertisement As he and co-stars Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray reminisced, host Jimmy Fallon asked Aykroyd, who also was one of the film’s original writers, how “Ghostbusters” materialized. The “Saturday Night Live” alum said his great-grandfather Sam, a dentist in Canada, researched spiritualism from the 1920s and was into the notion that both the soul… Read Full Article