If there’s one person you really have to feel sorry for with yesterday’s announcement of an all-new, all-female Ghostbusters reboot, it’s Ernie Hudson. For the last twenty or so years, he has been the only original cast member pushing for a third movie and to this day tours conventions and does talks in the costume. Now that a third Ghostbusters movie is dead and buried, you just have to feel bad for him.
Well, until today that is.
In a bizarre interview, Ernie Hudson flip flops on his feelings about an all-female Ghostbusters. The actor said, “I heard it was going to be a total reboot, and that it would have nothing to do with the other two movies. If it has nothing to do with the other two movies, and it’s all female, then why are you calling it Ghostbusters?”
“I love females,” he continues. “I hope that if they go that way at least they’ll be funny, and if they’re not funny at least hopefully it’ll be sexy. I love the idea of including women, I think that’s great.”
Okay, seems fine for the moment.
“But all-female I think would be a bad idea. I don’t think the fans want to see that.”
Oh.
“Maybe it will come out and be the most amazing thing, but in my opinion I think it would be wrong to do another movie that didn’t include the guys,” he added. “And that didn’t include me!”
Hudson, who played Winston Zeddemore in the 1984 original and 1989 sequel, added on his disappointment of no third movie: “The studio puts out these announcements over the years that there’s going to be another movie and I’m kind of going, that’s interesting, nobody’s told me about it,” he said. “Maybe they just assume. ‘Oh, we know we can get Ernie’ – which is sadly true! I’m not the most difficult one to get.”
There are no other details on the Ghostbusters reboot, other than it will be written by Katie Dippold (The Heat) and directed by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids).
Originally published October 9, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
