This time around, the Ghostbusters cast features Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones and ComingSoon.net had to chance to sit down and chat about how they collectively approached the franchise. Some fans of the classic ’80s action-comedies are so incensed by this reimagining (which boasts co-creator Dan Aykroyd as an executive producer) that they’ve made its trailer the most disliked in YouTube’s history.
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“When Paul told me the four people who were on it, I was like, ‘Oh he’s going for a beast fest.’ All of us are comedic beasts”, said Jones, whose worries about how the four personalities would mesh in an ensemble were quickly assuaged. Feig makes funny movies, so this unsurprisingly is a very amusing flick.
Dippold is working on the set of another film she wrote a couple of years ago, this one a mother-daughter adventure starring Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer.
This time around, the all-female Ghostbusters team is headed by authors Abby (McCarthy) and Erin (Wiig), who were laughed out of academia after publishing a book claiming that ghosts really do exist. It both exists as its own thing, and also tips its hat to the original enough that it ends up looking like the first Ghostbusters’ quirky cousin.
When it’s based strictly on the fact that they’re women, that’s just depressing that people still feel that way, but that’s not the majority of the people. “People have sat down and said, “oh, this is kind of good”.
This week, the product of that experiment opens in a reboot of Ghostbusters, which is co-written and directed by Paul Feig.
Plus, the finished film gets a few digs in. “I know how amusing they can be, but I think it was working on the set and seeing the comeraderie and the chemistry between the women that I knew the film would be very successful”.
The stakes are high, but not necessarily superhero level.
Speaking with Reitman last week, however, he explained much of what Ghost Corps will do with Ghostbusters up is in the air.
Perhaps comedian Zach Heltzel said it best when he tweeted out a picture of the moment on Sunday.
So would you like to see Zuul in any potential sequel? Unfortunately, it seems like Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones are all too aware of the response – they somewhat uncomfortably joked about it on Jimmy Kimmel recently, and apparently felt they needed to add some ad-libbed scenes to the movie to address the controversy.
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Feig liked the idea that the sudden existence of ghosts would be fresh for the new characters instead of having been established for 30 years as in a sequel.
