Ghostbusters Getting Love Interest
Though the Ghostbusters were a team, if they’d been a band Bill Murray’s Peter Venkman would have been the frontman. Our first view of him saw him leveraging an experiment to get a date. Later on in the film he devoted much of his energy to the seduction of Ms. Dana Barrett as played by Sigourney Weaver. He romanced her again in the sequel, but her character won’t be in Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
Instead Atari is introducing Dr. Ilyssa Selwyn, expert in Sumerian and pre-Sumerian cultures as both a plot-driving character and the love interest of the roguish Venkman. She comes into the world of the Ghostbusters as the guest curator of the Natural History museum’s ‘World of Gozer’ exhibit. The night before the opening a ‘cataclysmic force’ is released which summons an ancient evil and launches the main storyline.
Dr. Selwyn will be voiced by Alyssa Milano of “Charmed” and most recently “My Name is Earl”. Her aid will be essential in discovering what Sumerian force is bedeviling the city of New York this time, though the press release hints that she might be concealing some secrets of a possible more sinister nature.