How Ghost Took a Spiritual Journey to a Become a Spectacular Stage Musical
A Haunting Idea The 1990 film Ghost is as much a comedy as a romance, but it began life as a much darker project. “I had wanted to do a movie about ghosts for 10 years, and to tell it from the side of the ghost, but none of my ideas worked,” screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin told the New York Times in 2001. “Then one night I saw Hamlet, and there was Hamlet's father saying, ‘Avenge my death.&…