Posted on 08/04/2014 10:20:44 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
The director of Bridesmaids, The Heat, and the upcoming Melissa McCarthy/Jason Statham action comedy Spy just had to go and get Sony interested in a female-centric reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise (Variety).
Hollywood makes fewer smaller-scale releases for multiplex audiences, and the conventional wisdom is that the expensive films need white male leads to maximize worldwide box office potential.
We all saw as Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent ended up becoming one of the biggest grossing films of the year domestically ($234 million) and worldwide ($717m) following a year when the biggest film in America (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) and worldwide (Frozen) were female-centric. Even Melissa McCarthy’s Tammy, written off after opening weekend as a flop, has earned four times its $20m budget domestically.
A gender-reversed Ghostbusters won’t just be more exciting and potentially more successful than a standard male-centric reboot with whatever big male comic stars will say yes. It’s also a small step in what can only be rightfully called a course correction, a rare chance for women (plural) to play in the now male-dominated big-budget fantasy sandbox.
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Come on, Hollywood, women? They'll abort them!
GhostBUSTers.
The first Ghostbusters was successful because it was basically a slapstick comedy of the "Caddyshack" variety with some special effects tacked on as an afterthought. The second Ghostbusters was a failure because it was basically a special effects heavy extravaganza with some comedy tacked on as an afterthought....
already hapenned: GB I dan akroyd... i think he was supposed to be dreaming, but...
It has all been done. They are out of ideas. The only realm left outside of remakes is outright homo movies and other fetish/deviant themed crap. That make remakes look appealing to me.
Oh and I bet this time the EPA are the good guys.
Exactly correct. The female-centered movies he mentioned as recent successes were successful, I assume, because they were good stories well told. But morons will think they were successful because they were about women.
I’m just as happy to watch a good story about women as about men, though a great many of the female-dominated stories are spoiled in one of two ways. Excessive sentimental chick-flickery or 120 pound action star women beating up 250 pound men. Both are really hard to watch.
That’s part of the reason for remakes. If the original was clean, they put in vulgarity, explicit sex, homosexuality, feminists making men look stupid, and “multicultural” characters where the non-white is the hero, in order to make the movie “current.”
There has to have been tens of thousands of original novels and screenplays written over the last century or more, yet Hollyweird must regurgitate the same products over and over.
(Thank goodness that they only made one Robin Hood).
Perhaps “Ghostbusties”?
Probably the same ratio of lesbos, too.
“Ghost Busties” sounds like the title of a porn film or something
Is it just me or does this rewriting of everything to make it female seem a bit “Stalinesque?”
What’s next, “Annette Schwartzenager” as “The Feminator?”
Kind of my point.
If they staff the ghostbusters as women, who will play the buffoon? I mean, nobody in hollywood will portray a woman as a buffoon...
With a weak story line and pathetic soundtrack thrown in for good measure.
All of the bad ghosts are male ghosts and they are raping women and must be stopped!
“If there’s something strange, in your vagina... who you gonna call?”
It wont be funny, that’s the problem. Women have a very difficult time doing comedy, it always seems to descend into snark.
And the reboots normally suck these days. I just saw the mad max reboot trailer. They turned a gritty realistic looking film, and realist looking car action into a CGI exhibition of a sort of leather fetish Circ du Soleil show.
In other words, it sucks just as much as I presumed that it would.
That was sarcasm, right? There have been dozens of Robin Hood movies made.
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