It’s a little difficult to picture John Candy as Louis Tully in Ghostbusters, isn’t it? It’s not that he couldn’t have played the role, as according to the writers at MovieWeb he was the first one to be given the opportunity, but he just couldn’t get a handle on it apparently. It sounds as though Candy wanted to put a German accent on and even have several German shepherds with him for the part, and Ivan Reitman just couldn’t see it happening that way. Maybe Candy was having a German phase at the time, but we’ll never know since Candy
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