Ghostbusters (Paul Feig, Aykroyd-free)

[Dead & Messed Up]

It's official. A reboot with an all-female cast that will not be connected to the previous two movies.

I'm not thrilled by Feig and Dippold teaming up again, as The Heat was funny during the beginning but really broad and increasingly tedious.

I have no problem with an all-female cast.

I will feel weird about it not being in the universe of the other two. Will they still have proton packs and traps? Will they have an ectocontainment unit? Will they have a ghost-ambulance-police-car? These might seem like shallow matters, but they aren't to me. Ghostbusters is one of my most favorite things, and its iconography has become such a part of the culture.

[Henry Gale]

Hmm, yeah I had no qualms about this direction when it was first rumoured, but really not sure what to make of it being confirmed as its own new unrelated tangent of sorts with the property.

I'm honestly fine with them doing something as hackneyed and nonsensical as when they bring back characters from the original incarnation but the new crew doesn't know who they are (which 21 Jump Street kinda mastered). The plot here could force some sort of inter-dimensional portal peek where we briefly see the original guys still at it in "our" universe. Awkward Ramis insertion or not (:sad. Murray has always been the hold-out, but only in a major role capacity. He's said if he was quickly killed off or something in the first act of a new one he'd be in.

They should just make a massive coffee-table book of all he unused scripts that had been developed for this over the years. It'd never happen, but at least you'd see different versions of the old and new being strung together, unofficial as it may now be.

[Ezee E]

So is this a reboot? Or simply a sequel in which the original ghostbusters have all since retired and moved on?

Okay... ideal female Ghostbusters crew... GO!

IDEAL:
Kristen Wiig
Jane Lynch
Aisha Tyler
Aubrey Plaza

EDIT: Read more, and it's a reboot.

[Spinal]

Anna Faris
Sarah Silverman
Jessica Williams
Sigourney Weaver (obviously)

[EyesWideOpen]

Aubrey Plaza
Mindy Kaling
Kristen Wiig
Jenny Slate

[number8]

That site's comments, man.

[Dead & Messed Up]

That site's comments, man.

...eww.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Aubrey Plaza
Amy Poehler
Retta
Rashida Jones

[Henry Gale]

Aubrey Plaza
Amy Poehler
Retta
Rashida Jones

with

Chris Pratt
Adam Scott
Aziz Ansari
Nick Offerman / Rob Lowe

as their local supernatural exterminator rivals, no doubt. I would not mind this taking an Anchorman/Dodgeball turn in that way. Only under these casting circumstances, of course.

They're all free after this Spring! Take a note, Feig!

[number8]

Maybe it won't be 4 people.

[megladon8]

I hope they have Melissa McCarthy, and have her entire role be fat jokes! And have her always eating and talking about food, 'cause fat people eat a lot and that's really funny!!

[Spinal]

Rosie O'Donnell
Whoopi Goldberg
Joy Behar
Barbara Walters

[Kurosawa Fan]

Rosie O'Donnell
Whoopi Goldberg
Joy Behar
Barbara Walters

This is exactly why Elizabeth Hasselbeck left.

[Dukefrukem]

I probably won't watch this.

[Spinal]

Oscar bait edition:

Michelle Williams
Amy Adams
Queen Latifah
Judi Dench

[Kurosawa Fan]

Replace Dame Judi with Tilda Swinton and I think we have something.

[Spinal]

I probably won't watch this.

It does seem like a fairly insipid project. But I'd rather see some of the names floating around here than I would Seth Rogen, James Franco, Michael Cera and Jonah Hill.

[D_Davis]

I just have a hard time believing that a girl could bust a ghost.

[D_Davis]

Rosie O'Donnell
Whoopi Goldberg
Joy Behar
Barbara Walters

Replace Walters with Streisand.

[Watashi]

Kristen Schaal
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Viola Davis
Ellen Page

[Dead & Messed Up]

Vanessa Bayer
Kate McKinnon
Cecily Strong
Sasheer Zamata

[Sycophant]

However it shakes out, I hope there's room for Lauren Lapkus.

[Ezee E]

Yeoh is a Match Cut top actress? Surely, Gerwig beats her out.

[transmogrifier]

Eva Green, Penelope Cruz, Tang Wei, Zoe Saldana

[Sycophant]

A complete redo is great because it offers us a glimpse of a world--unlike the world of an actual Ghostbusters III or the world we live in--where Ghostbusters II never happened.