Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones are our new paranormal investigators along with their loyal secretary Chris Hemsworth.
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It’s a complete reboot: The new tale features New York City as a world that has never been overrun with paranormal activity.
An all-female cast may seem like an unusual move but director Paul Feig (Spy, The Heat, Bridesmaids) is the best director of female comedies in the business, especially coming off the back of the excellent Spy.
Unveiling the trailer for the first time to an audience of Ghostbusters fans, Feig said: “It was really important to us to make them scientists”. Feig, who was in attendance, said, “I didn’t like the idea of [the new Ghostbusters] being handed technology – ‘Here’s how to do this.’ I want to see it developed”.
We get a little taster of what the film will actually be about.
“I just love slime and we actually took it further then the original movie did”. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts all have cameos but in non-Ghostbuster roles, since this is a full reboot which ignores the previous two films.
The American Film Institute ranked it 28th in its list of the top 100 comedies of all time and in 2008, Entertainment Weekly magazine named it as the funniest movie in the prior 25 years.
Sharp wit and humour is on display, as well as some neatly touched-up special effects and digitally rendered music, and looks like it’s avoided the pitfall over being overdone in comparison to the much-beloved originals.
Directed by Paul Feig, who has had huge success with past comedic ventures, the film looks like it’s trying to keep the essence of the original while peppering in some newer twists.
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Again: We won’t know until we see it July 15. Touting sight-gag after prat fall throughout the trailer, I do have my issues, as many others may as well. “I’m completely geeking out over these proton packs in the front of the theater”.
