Poor ol’ Paul Feig. Ever since announcing that he was rebooting Ghostbusters with an all-female cast, it has been met with nothing but negativity. Although the original cast have got behind the idea, he has yet to win over a lot of the Ghostbusters fan-base.
“The Internet is really funny – I love it, but I hate it at the same time,” Feig told Variety while promoting his new movie Spy, which stars future Ghostbuster Melissa McCarthy. “The first wave when you make an announcement like that is overwhelmingly positive. Everyone’s so happy and you’re like, This is great. Then comes the second wave and you’re like, Oh my God. Some of the most vile, misogynistic s**t I’ve ever seen in my life.”
“The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood.’ It’s going to be on my tombstone when I die,” he says of the reactions on Twitter. “It’s so dramatic. Honestly, the only way I could ruin your childhood is if I got into a time machine and went back and made you an orphan. I figure it’s some wacked out teenager. But almost constantly it’s someone who’s bio says, ‘Proud father of two!’ And has some high end job. You’re raising children and yet you’re bashing me about putting women in my movie?”
On Monday, it was revealed that Sony had big plans for their Ghostbusters franchise, that played in line with Dan Aykroyd’s wishes he shared last year. “I’d heard some rumblings about it,” he says of the project. “Who knew there were so many ghosts to be busted in the world? All I know is my ladies are going to kick ass and I would not want to go into battle without them.”
Ghostbusters is set for release on July 22nd, 2016 and features a cast that includes Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids), Melissa McCarthy (The Heat), Leslie Jones (We Are Family) and Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live).
Originally published March 13, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
