Comments on: William Forsche GB2 images – confirms von Sydow role. Vigo-on-a-rope?

By: Jonathan Cardwell

Jonathan Cardwell — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:42:02 +0000

Man, that really doesn’t sound like Father Merrin (The Exorcist). I’ve seen a couple other movies with Von Sydow, and it seems like he had the same voice as Merrin, but I could be wrong…of course, he was a lot younger in The Seventh Seal than he was when he voiced Vigo…and he hadn’t aged as much by 1973 as the character he was playing in The Exorcist…and i can’t remember what else he was in that I’ve seen…but that really doesn’t sound like him…maybe they did some voice effects or something…hmm…

By: Antonio

Antonio — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:15:03 +0000

What’s this talk of GB2 making the series popular with kids? RGB established the series as being popular with kids years before GB2.

By: Kevinj319

Kevinj319 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:34:15 +0000

I’m not going to pretend that I knew the truth about Max von Sydow, because I didn’t. However, it was fairly obvious to me, even at a young age, that the “Vigo” actor wasn’t actually the one saying the lines.

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:18:25 +0000

Superstarseven,

Thanks for the link. I may have had this interview in mind:

“Vigo will be making a cameo appearance. Unfortunately that actor had passed away so we’ll have a sound-alike.” — Creative Director Drew Haworth
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/839/839501p2.html

By: Dr. Venkman

Dr. Venkman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:57:55 +0000

John,

Ghostbusters didn’t start out as a kids franchise… There’s a lot of adult humor and Ghostbusters was originally intended for the teen/adult audience, definitely not kids. When it became popular, they made a cartoon out of it, and kids latched on to that. They could’ve easily made a Ghostbusters 2 that wasn’t as influenced by kids and had it be successful and we’d still be talking about Ghostbusters 3 today.

The Batman franchise doesn’t depend on children (sure they have kids as an audience too, but The Dark Knight was certainly not marketed mainly towards kids). Indiana Jones isn’t mainly made for children. I mean there’s plenty of examples that you can make where sequels to movies can be made without pandering to children, just because it has become popular with children even though that’s not who it was originally intended to be for.

By: Rake

Rake — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:55:10 +0000

It wasn’t Sony making Ghostbusters 2. Sony didn’t buy columbia until after GB2 had been made and released in 1989. We’ve yet to see how terribly Sony can tamper with a Ghostbusters film. Judging from how bad they’ve done other franchises Spider-man, Resident Evil. This could be a very very terrible thing. In a way ghostbusters was always Cartoony, although in all actuality was there such a vast difference in Slimers appearance where kids actually noticed? No. Studio tampering is probably why there’s a mixed reception on GB2. Now GB3 should just be called “Sony’s Ghostbusters 3″. Tell you the truth I wish they’d go back to making VCRs.

By: John

John — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:53:08 +0000

You can bash Sony for making the film cartoony all day long but the truth is, if it weren’t for GB2, kids might not have latched on so hard and we’d not be talking about GB3 today, nor have the superb videogame.

By: winston18

winston18 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:31:52 +0000

That’s awesome. The story about Wilhelm not knowing his voice was going to be replaced and finding out at the screening sounds just like the story about David Prowse who didn’t know James Earl Jones was doing the voice for Darth Vader (Prowse was the guy in the suit)

By: osborn

osborn — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:59:30 +0000

great pics!

By: Superstarseven

Superstarseven — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:07:25 +0000

Here we go. Apparently it was a former executive on the game that confirmed it. Didn’t PC link to this? I don’t remember. This interview is from way back in June.

http://bitURL.net/?6rk8dz

By: Hannibal King

Hannibal King — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:05:27 +0000

I should note though that I was going back to his first speech in the film to see if it was, never looking at the scene I mentioned in my previous comment. I would have totally believed it earlier if I had gone to that scene in the first place.

By: Hannibal King

Hannibal King — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:02:57 +0000

I still wasn’t entirely sure because it just didn’t really sound like him in the movie to me, but now that I know its true, you can definately tell its him in the line “the season of evil begins with the birth of the new year” at around 1h 12m 40s into the film.

By: Superstarseven

Superstarseven — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:00:31 +0000

You didn’t know that Steven?
Terminal Reality confirmed it awhile ago. There was a great read about how they got Max to voice Vigo in the game.

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:34:43 +0000

So Max von Sydow voiced Vigo in both Ghostbusters II and in the video game? Were the interview answers that the video game would be using a soundalike for Vigo (because Wilhelm von Homburg died) misinformed or just toeing the party line?