Ghostbusters
Short description
Erin Gilbert is a physicist trying to leave her past as a paranormal researcher behind to secure a teaching post at Columbia University. When a book she co-wrote years earlier about ghosts resurfaces, her credibility collapses, and she turns to her former collaborator Abby Yates. Abby has kept studying the paranormal, working alongside the engineer Jillian Holtzmann, who builds the equipment they use to detect spirits. A reported haunting draws the two women back together and pushes them to test their theories in the field. Joined by Patty Tolan, a subway worker who knows the city well, and the receptionist Kevin, the group forms a team to deal with the ghosts appearing across Manhattan.
Paul Feig directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Katie Dippold, and Ivan Reitman, who directed the earlier Ghostbusters films, produced it with Amy Pascal. The cast is led by Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth and Neil Casey, with 71 credited cast members and 127 credited crew. The film came between Spy and A Simple Favor in Feig's directing career.
Released in July 2016, the film runs 117 minutes and mixes action, comedy and fantasy. Made for 144 million US dollars, it earned 229 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.8/10 from 258,000 votes, while on TMDB it has 5.3/10 from 6,908 votes. A critics' rating of 6.5/10 across 392 reviews places it closer to the IMDb audience score than to the TMDB figure.
What's left behind the scenes
- Production of the third Ghostbusters film stalled for almost 15 years, until director Paul Feig took on the task of rebooting the franchise.
- At the very beginning of work on the film, rumors circulated that one of the roles (allegedly the role of the doctor, Anna) would be offered to Anne Hathaway.
- In the 1990s, Dan Aykroyd considered sending the Ghostbusters to hell in the 3rd film. The idea was later abandoned, otherwise the American Film Association would have given the film a “PG-13” rating (children under 13 are allowed only with parents), and the British Board of Film Classification would have given it a “12” rating (for persons aged 12 and over).
- Jason Reitman, son of Ivan Reitman, who directed the first "Ghostbusters" film (1984), was once asked if he was considering rebooting the franchise. Reitman joked that, judging by his previous directorial work, the new Ghostbusters film would consist only of talking.
- Emma Stone turned down an offer to star in the Ghostbusters film. The actress said she liked the script, but she didn't want to get involved in a project that could turn into a series of films, almost immediately after filming in Marc Webb's "The Amazing Spider-Man" (2012) and its sequel.
- Some episodes were filmed in a mansion built by the Ames family on the site of the current Borderland State Park in Massachusetts. Some episodes of Martin Scorsese's 2009 thriller "Shutter Island" were also filmed there.
- In Ivan Reitman's "Ghostbusters II" (1989), one of the minor characters tells parapsychologist Peter Venkman that the end of the world will come on February 14, 2016. The premiere of the 3rd film in the Ghostbusters franchise was scheduled for 2016.
- This is Melissa McCarthy's fourth collaboration with Paul Feig. She previously starred in "Bridesmaids" (2011), "The Heat" (2013), and "Spy" (2015).
- Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, and Cecily Strong, who starred in the film, were all members of the recurring cast of "Saturday Night Live." Melissa McCarthy hosted "Saturday Night Live" four times. Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd also appeared in the show. Harold Ramis was once offered the opportunity to write for the show, but he was already working on a sketch show that aired on Canadian television and starred Rick Moranis, one of the writers of "Ghostbusters" (1984).
- This is the third collaboration between Kristen Wiig and Paul Feig. The actress appeared in his first film, "Unaccompanied Minors" (2006), and in "Bridesmaids" (2011), which also starred Melissa McCarthy.
- Cameo roles in the film went to Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, and Sigourney Weaver. Aykroyd initially confirmed his appearance in the future film on "Facebook" and "Twitter," but then deleted the posts. When news leaked to the press that Murray and Aykroyd would be starring in the film, director Paul Feig confirmed on "Twitter" that Hudson and Weaver would also be appearing. Rick Moranis was also offered a cameo role, but he declined.
- In an article published in the October issue of "Entertainment Weekly," Dan Aykroyd stated that the original cast members would play characters different from their original roles in the future film. This statement confirmed Paul Feig's, the director and one of the writers, earlier comments before filming began that he didn't want to make a film “in a universe where everyone is already used to ghosts” (such as the Ghostbusters from the original 1984 cast).
- As with the first "Ghostbusters" film (1984), the action in the upcoming movie will take place in New York. However, filming took place mostly in Boston (Massachusetts) and its surroundings, specifically in Boston's Chinatown, the town of Easton, and at the old "Southfield" military base. One of the streets at the latter was converted into a New York street – lampposts were installed and screens with a green glow were set up for combined shots. A two-story building resembling an office center was the central object of filming.
- Director Paul Feig had considered casting actresses Jennifer Lawrence and Rebel Wilson in the film.
- Prior to the franchise reboot, it was believed—based on rumors or statements by Dan Aykroyd—that Anna Faris, Alyssa Milano, or Eliza Dushku would be part of the Ghostbusters team.
- The first film in the franchise not to be directed by Ivan Reitman.
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