[Movie] "Ghostbusters" Reboot - All female cast

Is Bill Murray gonna be in it tho?!

 

Indifferent. I think McKinnon is underused on SNL though.

 

Annoyed. Leveraging a classic movie to get fans to see an all-female lead cast is weak.

Here's a thought, come up with an original script.

 

This won't work, they may have to just completely sanitize it and double-down on the CGI to cash in on that family friendly trough. These reboots sometimes neglect a lot of the original themes and metaphors that actually helped make the movie great, and just cash in on nostalgic scenes or moments. I think there was a lot in Ghostbusters about modern New York at the time, cultural clashes between yuppies, academia, bureaucrats and service workers; mid-life crises of unattached, unfulfilled professionals, the ghosts as remnants of the chaos from the '70s, along with a lot of templates for big-budget action films in urban settings. Granted, it's a whole other generation of teens and young adults to market to, so they might still succeed without placating all that whiny Gen-X nostalgia.

 

Well, now we know who the breakout star of SNL this year.

 

Sony, again lolol

 

The Hollywood-franchise-reboot-sequel craze is never-ending...

 

Lame. As. Hell.

 

One of my favorite quotes from "28 Days Later" sums up my reaction to this news:

 

Damn. Sounds horrible. I can't stand Kristin Wigg.

 

Ghostbusters was overrated. Just like Bill Murray.

 

The entire pre-production news and hype cycle of the last 20 years or so has probably torpedoed more than a few original ideas and made now publicly run shops a lot more risk averse.

 

The best part about this is that I won't be paying to see this trash. Maybe I'll torrent if I have the time.

 

This is very true, and that is a sad state of affairs if you're a fan of movies...

Thankfully you'll still get gems like Birdman/Whiplash/etc. every year from directors and producers who actually care about making good movies, but more often than not it's just a bunch of comic book adaptations that get rebooted every 5 years or Michael Bay action nonsense.

 

That's gonna be ****ing terrible.

 

U guys, female casting isn't the problem. It's the ongoing obsession of rebooting 80s movies.

 

What's next, rebooting Citizen Kane with an all-albino cast?

 

There is no way in hell I will waste my time with this... All female cast in a comedy like Ghost Busters? I would rather watch Rosie O shave her legs while listening to Garofalo lecture a drunk fraternity kid about respecting womanhood.

No no NO!