Original GHOSTBUSTERS Actor Now Thinks 2016 Reboot Was a Mistake
Mike Sprague
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Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters is one of my daughter’s favorite movies. I’ve seen it many times over now. And it’s fun. But today, original Ghostbusters star Ernie Hudson recently voiced his opinion on why the 2016 reboot didn’t work.
He tells LivingLifeFearless: “When you say reboot… the one with the ladies – that I actually liked a lot. I definitely loved everybody who was in it. Paul Feig, I’m still fans of theirs – they tried to do a reboot. And a reboot, to me, means you’re trying to do the movie over. Another version of what we already did. And I think that was a mistake. It wasn’t a continuation or an extension of. It was somehow a different universe there. You know what I mean? It’s kind of like us, but it’s us but not us. In that universe, they’re women. I don’t know. That was a choice that was made.”
He adds: “[Ghostbusters: Afterlife] is Ghostbusters. As we move on through the world, 20, 30 years later, it’s still within the same universe. And the other was Ghostbusters. But like I said, it just felt like a retelling of the same story, which automatically causes comparisons that you really don’t need to be doing. I’m saying this is how I feel like. But this is Ghostbusters later. It’s been 30-35 years since we did the Ghostbusters’. And so this is years later.”
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The flick centers on paranormal researcher Abby Yates and physicist Erin Gilbert who are trying to prove that ghosts exist. When strange apparitions appear in Manhattan, Gilbert and Yates turn to engineer Jillian Holtzmann for help. Also joining the team is Patty Tolan, a lifelong New Yorker who knows the city inside and out. Armed with proton packs and plenty of attitude, the four women prepare for an epic battle as more than 1,000 mischievous ghouls descend on Times Square.
Rated PG-13 for supernatural action and crude humor, it sports a 74% on Rotten Tomatoes with this Critics Consensus: Ghostbusters does an impressive job of standing on its own as a freewheeling, marvelously cast supernatural comedy — even if it can’t help but pale somewhat in comparison with the classic original.
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