The logo, proton packs, traps, Slimer, Stay Puft, few films have as many recognisable images in them as Ghostbusters. Which means designing a poster for it, especially after almost 35 years, can be a challenge. Thankfully for all of us, it was a challenge artist Laurent Durieux was happy to take on.
“My challenge was to find something that hopefully hadn’t been used before, which was no easy feat,” not their faces. Durieux said the decision not to put the actor’s faces on the poster was his.
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“You create better posters without likenesses. Period,” he said. “You get to create out of the box. You are forced to find ideas. Some of the most beautiful alternative movie posters ever are the stuff created by the Cuban and Polish designers in the ‘60s, ‘70s, and even ‘80s, not one has any likenesses on them. I personally believe that, with a couple of exceptions, my best posters are the ones that followed that rule.”
Ghostbusters is just one of many posters in the show, many of which have yet to be revealed. But here are a few more.
Durieux also did posters for Titanic, Apocalypse Now, Conan the Barbarian, and more. But, out of everything in the show, he said Ghostbusters was probably the most difficult.
“There is an enormous pressure over my head not to disappoint the hardcore Ghostbusters fans,” Durieux said. “Also it was very time consuming to draw. You know, working on that three-point perspective, the shadow and light rendering, etc…. I really should’ve done something with the likenesses now that I think of it. [Laughs].”
These posters along, along with the rest of the show, will first be available at the gallery in Texas with leftovers going online for sale in the coming weeks. Follow @MondoNews on Twitter for the heads up.