In what feels like a tiny dagger plunged into the hearts of long-time fans, we’ve recently learned the next Ghostbusters project will forever close the chapter on our original favorites.
While rumors abound regarding exactly where the franchise was headed (after the untimely death of Harold Ramis), this week the film was finally plucked out of its 15 year development hell. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Director Paul Feig confirmed they are moving forward with the concept of an all-female cast (and rebooting things instead of going the sequel route).
“My favorite thing to do is work with funny women. I was like, what if it was an all-female cast? If they were all women? Suddenly, my mind kind of exploded: that would be really fun. And then I thought, well, what if we just make it new? It’s not coming into the world that existed before. It’s always hard if the world has gone through this big ghost attack, how do you do it again? I wanted to come into our world where there’s talk of ghosts but they’re not really credible, and so what would happen in our world if this happened today?” Feig states.
The good news is, it won’t completely throw out the continuity of the previous movies. Feig says any of the original cast who would like to reprise their roles will be “…welcomed with open arms. It would just be in different roles now, but it would be fun to figure out how to do that.”
We’ll bring you more once we hear details surrounding a potential release date.