Dan Aykroyd Reveals What the Original Ghostbusters Costumes Looked Like

The Ghostbusters almost wore helmets.

Franchise co-creator Dan Aykroyd, who also played Ray Stantz, revealed the original costume design for 1984’s Ghostbusters in a post on X.

“My original conception for Ghostbusters jumpsuits and packs, illustrated by John Daveikis. Glad we lost the helmet,” Aykroyd wrote.

The color of the outfit is different from the khaki flightsuits eventually worn in the ‘84 movie. The proton pack is a different size and shape than the final version. The helmet itself looks something like those worn by Rebel pilots in Star Wars.

My original conception for Ghostbusters jumpsuits and packs, illustrated by John Daveikis. Glad we lost the helmet.#Ghostbusters pic.twitter.com/6I7svGdHM3— Dan Aykroyd (@dan_aykroyd) August 20, 2026

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My original conception for Ghostbusters jumpsuits and packs, illustrated by John Daveikis. Glad we lost the helmet.#Ghostbusters pic.twitter.com/6I7svGdHM3

The Ghostbusters logo is slightly similar to the final, iconic version with a red circle on a black background, inside of which is a white ghost with a red diagonal slash through it.

Aykroyd co-wrote the original Ghostbusters screenplay with Harold Ramis, who would go on to play Egon Spengler. The movie was almost called Ghostblasters or Ghoststoppers due to rights issues.

For more on the (largely) unknown history of the Ghostbusters franchise, learn about the unmade Ghostbusters 3 and how Ghostbusters impacted the ending of Marvel's Avengers.

The last Ghostbusters film released was 2024’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which our reviewer Tom Jorgensen scored 4/10, writing in his review that the movie was so bad “the franchise should be put in cold storage until someone can figure out how to do justice to the central concept without Murray, Aykroyd, Hudson, and Potts dropping by to prevent mass hysteria.”