Paramount Home Media Tabs July 21 For The Blu-ray Release Of Ghost: 30th Anniversary Edition

And just like that Paramount Home Media Distribution was back with news this past week that yet another key title in the studio’s extensive film library would be getting a new 4K film restoration, supervised by none other than the filmmaker himself.

The latest Blu-ray release added to the release schedule on July 21 is director Jerry Zucker’s Ghost, which will be celebrating its 30^th Anniversary.

It was inconceivable that the co-director of Airplane!, who was also the writer and producer of The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, would be given access to a script by Bruce Joel Rubin that was at Paramount at the time.   But, history records that Zucker read the script, met with Rubin … and the rest was history.   

Not only would Ghost be nominated for Best Picture, but Rubin would win the Oscar for his script (although Zucker worked on various drafts with him, layering in various elements of humor, he took no writing credit) and Whoopi Goldberg as “psychic” Oda Mae Brown won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar (she had previously been nominated for The Color Purple).

Demi Moore almost didn’t get the part as Molly as Nicole Kidman, who was to co-star in Paramount’s Days of Thunder, had gotten wind of the script and worked hard to land the role. 

The film had a modest budget, but became the biggest theatrical hit of 1990 … even out-grossing Paramount’s other blockbuster of the year, Pretty Woman.

Bonus features for the Blu-ray release of Ghost: 30^th Anniversary Edition on July 7 includes a vintage commentary track featuring director Jerry Zucker and writer Bruce Joel Rubin, plus a newly-prepared featurette titled “Director Jerry Zucker on Ghost” and a pair of vintage featurettes — “Alchemy of a Love Scene” and “Ghost Stories: The Making of a Classic.”