Who was the most excited for fans to finally get spooked by the reboot?
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Current Sony chairman Tom Rothman was similarly hopeful, saying at the film’s Los Angeles premiere on Saturday that initial backlash against the remake has been “great” for publicity. Producer Amy Pascal says the newly revived franchise will be “endless”, which of course is the goal of pretty much every mainstream blockbuster franchise these days.
“He said, ‘We all jumped up and applauded at the end.’ He said he was nervous at the beginning and then they soon relaxed when they saw how well it was going and how much fun the movie is”.
But “Ghostbusters” may surprise everyone come Friday.
“All that stuff has been great”. “It’s an entertaining comedy, but it’s now also an important part of the social conversation”, he said.
“On one hand it was this fantastic compliment to the movie, to me. We like to make fun of everything”.
“I feel like it’s a documentary of a summer that we all had that was like a camp experience, ” McKinnon said. “There was always a version of it in the script. Because they’re trying to prove something to everyone through these videos online, there was always a storyline”.
Ghostbusters is back with an all-new team of women ready to take on the evil haunting New York City, armed only with their proton packs, ghost cages and special brand of humor.
“The gloves are the hottest”, she said. “That’s what the original movie did so well”.
“I saw [the original movie on] the opening weekend in the theatre, and had honestly never seen a comedy do what that movie did to the audience”, he says.
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In an interview last week, Ivan Reitman – the Ghostbusters Godfather who directed the first two films – talked about what those movies did for the careers of some of the original actors, such as Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray. I thought I’m going to call the funniest people I know and it’s these four ladies. “And because of that, it just added a lot of extra scenes that as you’re going through, you have to make a lot of choices because I knew I had to bring this down under two hours”. Otherwise my least favourite aspect of the film was a string of awkward cameos which detracted from the freshness of this new film in favour of fawning nostalgia. When Erin lands a teaching job at Columbia, the book resurfaces and Erin laughed out of the university, just in time to set up a ghost hunting business to save NY from a supernatural invasion.
