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 Jolies 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 McCarthys Tammy, written off after opening weekend as a flop, has earned four times its $20m budget domestically.
A gender-reversed Ghostbusters wont just be more exciting and potentially more successful than a standard male-centric reboot with whatever big male comic stars will say yes. Its 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Wacky WiFi today it seems. Sorry about the triple.
Only one Robin Hood. ??
But will they be girl monsters?
Lesbian ghosts!
(I know John didn't appear in the films, but it was crafted for him).
“Probably be as successful as womens basketball.”
With only half the lesbians.
The next Godzilla MUST include LGTB superheroes battling the horrible right-wing racist bigoted monster. After all, the creature’s very name has God in it.
They're already hairy and ill-tempered. They'd be perfect!
Love it. I want that shirt.
Ghostbuster Bridesmaids is the working title. Story of a group of women trying to bring back their dead boyfriends for one last fling.
You are right. Andrea Zworkin would make a perfect ape.
It’s not that it’s a bad idea.....it’s that a bunch of people who make way more money than I do sat around a table and decided it was a good idea.
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