News of an all-female Ghostbusters has been one of this year's biggest news, revealing Paul Feig's vision due to Sony's recent email hack, also confirming that casting for the film had already begun. The director also decided that the next installment wouldn't be a sequel and will be rebooting the movie instead.
A list of actresses including Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence, Melissa McCarthy and Lizzy Caplan have all been rumored over the past months joining the cast.
"A lot of people accused it of being a gimmick. I guess I can see the cynics' view of it, but for me I just love working with funny women. People said, 'Why don't you do a mix?' I'm just more interested in the idea of lady Ghostbusters. It's the way my brain works.
"It won't be called Lady Ghostbusters! Certainly not...Ghostbustieres is the way to go."
- Director Paul Feig explaining the plot for the movie in Empire Magazine.
The director who is also responsible for femme-comedies The Bridesmaids and The Heat also explained why he isn't making the film a sequel to the past installments in an interview with Entertainment Weekly:
"if you go into any project without nerves you're going to to make a bad project. If you walk into a project going, I'm going to f-king ace this, then expect the worst. At the end of the day, all we want to make is a great movie and people are going to attach a lot of energy to either being nervous about this or being excited about it, and all Katie and I and the rest of the team, who we slowly assemble, can do is just make a great movie that's super funny, that's scary, that's real, that has great characters that people identify with and want to see in these situations."
"It's a world that they've experienced before in the old ones, but the hope is the minute they sit down they'll go, "I love the old one, oh my god, I'm loving this new one." Everything's got to live on it's own merits. It would be terrible if we just go, oh we're just doing an update where we use the same dynamic and scripts. If we just flop four women into the exact same personalities and roles as original, then that's lazy filmmaking on my behalf, and who wants to see that? I don't want to do a shot by shot update of a movie that existed. It's the difficult thing about remaking a great movie. So that's why we're not remaking a great movie. We're doing our take on it."
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