Things we know:
Main Cast
Kristin Wiig
Melissa Mcarthy
Kate McKinnon
Leslie Jones
Chris Hemsworth (in Jeannine's receptionist role)
Erin Gilbert (Wiig) and Abby Bergman (McCarthy) are a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real. A few years later Gilbert lands a prestigious teaching position at Columbia University, but her book resurfaces and she is laughed out of academia. Gilbert reunites with Bergman and others when ghosts invade Manhattan and she and her team have to save the world.
It also sounds like Aykroyd may get a cameo...but since this is a reboot I have no idea how that will work.
Here are photo's of the costumes, and the proton pack.
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So the long and short of how I feel is as follows:
1. Paul Fieg recently has one certified hit (BRIDESMAIDS), one movie that is considered funnier than it has a right to be (SPY), and one utter dreck flop (THE HEAT). This is a decent track record for a comedy film prospect which is a check mark in the "promising" category.
2. The all female cast (and male receptionist) is cool...and I love Kate McKinnon and find her the funniest thing SNL has produced since Samberg. But I LOATHE, out and out LOATHE Leslie Jones. She's not funny, and she will ruin anything she touches in this movie. I think they should have brought in Shaheer Zamata instead if they are using SNL alum. She's just a funnier comedian.
3. The fact that this is a reboot is the bit that urks me the most. This is literally an existing universe with two films under its belt. It's been 30 years since GB2 and the fertile creative soil in which they could craft a new story in that world while at the same time expanding and exploring that universe is staggering. The fact that Fieg has decided to ignore that to retell a similar story as the first film makes me annoyed. I mean why not show what the world of the post GB2 looks like? Why not show how the GB's progressed to deal with what is OBVIOUSLY a threat from the "other side"? It's just a HUGE missed opportunity in my opinion.
4. Horror Comedy. In the 1980's this was a viable genre. It was something that people like John Carpenter excelled at. No one that I can think of today has done this recently. No one has even attempted it. So if Fieg's plan is to go all-out comedy with a Ghostbusters movie, I fear that it will flop as a result. I HOPE he has it in him to do up Horror Comedy.
What does everyone else think about this? Is it going to do well? does it sound good? Sound off.
This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 30 June 2015 - 06:14 PM