Ghostbusters: Afterlife

[guitarsingerguy]

I'm cautiously optimistic, in part because I love anything Ghostbusters, but also because the only way I can see Reitman really wanting to do this, especially after the 2016 movie, is if they were getting the band back together.

I think Akroyd, Hudson and Murray will almost certainly be in this. Murray doesn't want to be a Ghostbuster? Well, neither did Peter Venkman, really, outside the cartoons and comics. It's the perfect material to mine for his character's screentime.

I'm fine with a passing of the torch concept, as long as the original guys get a moment or two to shine. If there's a kid or two, then there's a kid or two. There's mileage yet in the hero worship cocept. Oscar was one of the more charming elements of GB2, and he was a baby (or two).

Prepare yourselves for the Ghostbusters multiverse, or at least a nod to it, though. It's coming.

You and I are basically in the same boat I believe. I don't see how they make the film anything BUT a passing of the torch film. Otherwise you wind up with Bubba HoTep where your main cast winds up scaring themselves to death more or less, but the fact that this has gotten so ridiculously political already has kinda put me off. Seriously Jones...the ******** Trump comment was completely unnecessary. I don't need my genre escapism mishmashed with our day to day politics any more than they already are. Seriously, I don't need some clever or woke ass version of Ghostbusters. Y'all just tried that. Just let me turn my damn brain off for two solid hours so I can relive a bit of my childhood. I know a bunch of you are gonna say, "Well, just watch the old ones." When you've seen something as much as I enjoy seen those movies simply from all the times it's been on cable, etc over the years, sometimes you just want a new damn joke or two.

 

[Reek]

Leslie Jones and Tyrese should get together and have a cryfest.

Shut the hell up... your movie sucked... you suck... the only funny thing you've done was thanks to Seth Meyers letting you sit on his couch and watch Game of Thrones.

 

[Snakewise]

Looks like Paul Feig joined in on the "fun." Too bad his tweet wasn't just the last half.

 

[def28]

I think if she was positioning her anger to the toxic side of the fanbase that's fair. This however was incorrect negative assumptions about the people who took the risk, financed her film and paid her. Sony and Ghost Corps made the all female Ghostbusters, not the trolls. Can't make those assumptions about your employers online without a little proof and right now it doesn't even look like she read up on the articles. At least say that stuff in private.

The most obvious reason for this is it lost money. If it didn't there would be more. Thinking back, there were always talks about multiple GB films and I don't think it was ever confirmed that the 2016 characters couldn't ever return in some capacity.

 

[Nathan]

Can't Sony just shut any of them down? Like send out a mass E-Mail to everyone involved with the last Movie, telling them "Look, Ghostbusters 2016 turned into a political ****show, you didn't help matters and the Movie suffered. We're trying to keep the franchise alive, so could you maybe not revive the 2016 gender wars?"

 

[Aximili86]

Yeah, that's a point. Probably depends on whether she and the others were signed for potential sequels if the first one did well. If so, yeah, maybe the studio has legal grounds on the smack talk.

If they're out of contract and not working for them though, they can probably say whatever disparaging stuff they want about the new one. If they're cool with the idea they probably won't be hired by Sony for other projects again in future.

Seems it's pretty much just Jones though, the others have moved on. I guess to be fair, the others all have careers and Jones isn't exactly going to break big when her SNL tenure's over, she'll be one of the ones who fade into obscurity again like about 8/10 of the cast generally do, so...

But yeah, I can't see McCarthy or Wiig engaging in this type of thing. It didn't work, they have plenty of other jobs on the horizon, life goes on.

 

[jolldan]

Looks like Paul Feig joined in on the "fun." Too bad his tweet wasn't just the last half.

Dude will be in his element, he gets a chance to try and spin it that the reason they aren't making a sequel is down to "trolls" not just admitting that his movie was utter trash.

Pretty much everyone has made a bad movie its not that big of a deal they just need to accept that and move on.

 

[Lily Adler]

The gender politics during the production and marketing of GB16 were so toxic and horrendous that I couldn't even read the thread for that film. I know Jones is mad (and she has the right to be), but let's leave it in the past and try to forge a new path for her career instead of lingering on that film.

 

[GuestStar2004]

They are hurt they ain't getting a sequel and probably feel owed one due to the idea that Women deserve to shine as well as men.

Problem is the film flopped and Sony lost money. I'm not sure Sony were making the movie just for the sake of Women.

I don't agree with anyone who trolls the cast and director, but i also don't think the cast or director reacting back helps... it just adds to the fire.

 

[Dr Lee]

in related news, Melissa McCarthy just got a best actress nomination

 

[DarkKnight88]

Yeah, her and Kristen Wiig don’t really need this franchise.

As for Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, this film was supposed to help break them out as Bridesmaids did for McCarthy and Wiig but it didn’t. Time to move on and find new projects.

 

[Teelie]

McKinnon has moved on. She had The Spy Who Dumped me after this and some upcoming projects. Leslie Jones has some stuff too but she's still the most bitter over the movie. Wiig and McCarthy already moved on though McCarthy had a flop in Happytime Murders.

Though Jones did get the most hate and vitirol from the internet and Twitter in particular (which is one reason I don't use it, it's a cesspool) and she hasn't gotten the success the others have yet so she has good reason to be angry. She's just angry for the wrong reasons.

 

[Reek]

mccarthy should be used to making trash movies so she needs to teach leslie to just be happy she got paid.

 

[BatLobster]

I think the **** she has taken, Leslie Jones in particular, she is free to be mad. Especially since the announcements are kind of disrespectful. The return of the "real" Ghostbusters. After having to deal with the worst racists and misogynists online, only to be tossed under the bus in such a fashion, yeah, be pissed.

Spider-man wasn't so passive aggressive towards its previous incarnation.

She OF COURSE has every right to be mad and feel however she feels. Nobody can take that away from her. I cannot imagine going through what she did only to have this be the end result. I just don't think it was the best move for her to broadcast that to the world so soon. It's only gives the bullies and the actual toxic trolls more joy when you show that you're hurting and you lash out like that. It's a natural human reaction on her part, but in terms of controlling the narrative I think it was a misstep and I think it also puts her castmates in somewhat of an awkward spot. But hey, we all get emotional sometimes. This is why I don't tweet. The whole situation is just very unfortunate. I hope she's able to move on and continue building her career. That's the better message to put out there ultimately. Dust yourself off and keep on keeping on.

Also, Sony/Reitman said nothing of the sort in terms of "real" Ghostbusters. They said it was going to follow the trajectory of the original films. They praised the 2016 film in the press release. They also did not shut the door on more stories from them in the future. The obvious elephant in the room is that the film was a bomb and it would be riskier from a business standpoint to continue that direction at the moment. I just cannot agree with the premise that Sony shouldn't have allowed Reitman to make this film because it wouldn't be nice to Feig's movie. That is not at all how the film industry works and we've seen it time and time again with so many franchises. And believe me, the cynic in me can definitely see how this is a studio desperately trying to milk an IP. This is somewhat balanced by the fact that I have every reason to believe Reitman has a huge personal investment in the project which could potentially lead to something interesting and special. We'll just have to wait and see.

 

[StarLord]

This was pretty neat.

 

[Aximili86]

McKinnon does seem like she's probably got a future in movies though, wasn't she in that Johansson one recently?

Probably won't be like Poehler/Fey level, but she's reasonably talented. Jones just sort of seems so one-note on SNL, like the token loud person they bring in to yell at people, doubt she'll be remembered in 10 years. Going to verbal war with the Sony Corporation probably isn't all that wise, unless she's genuinely going all Batista and doesn't care if she's burning bridges once and for all.

 

[DarkKnight88]

McKinnon has moved on. She had The Spy Who Dumped me after this and some upcoming projects. Leslie Jones has some stuff too but she's still the most bitter over the movie. Wiig and McCarthy already moved on though McCarthy had a flop in Happytime Murders.

Though Jones did get the most hate and vitirol from the internet and Twitter in particular (which is one reason I don't use it, it's a cesspool) and she hasn't gotten the success the others have yet so she has good reason to be angry. She's just angry for the wrong reasons.

McKinnon’s movie career is still rocky. That film wasn’t really a breakout success. She still hasn’t had her breakout movie role. Jones I’m not sure what movies she’s done since Ghostbusters. No breakouts for her either.

McCarthy might’ve had a flop with the puppet movie but she just got nominated for Best Actress so it doesn’t really matter. And Wiig has Wonder Woman next year.

 

[terry78]

Kate feels like she may get her own show at some point.

 

[Teelie]

I know. I saw that movie last night and it was acceptable enough but it was nowhere near good enough to make her name bigger than it was before. It wasn't a flop so it didn't hurt her either.

 

[Prettyricky]

It kind of comes off like she was hoping the 2016 film would be her big break and I get it but it just didnt hit overall and her continued assault is rediculous. Trolls or no trolls sony isnt gonna greenlight a sequel a movie that not a success and no one really clamored for a continuation

 

[Sithborg]

On the other hand, they didn't have to swerve so heavily to nostalgia.

 

[Nathan]

Why? It's a quick way of telling people what the next Movie is going to be about. It's a proper sequel, it will bring back the old cast, and it will have music that won't be ruined by Fall Out Boy.

Well, maybe the Teaser won't tell people the last part. The Music was just playing in my head. XD

 

[BatLobster]

When I showed my wife the teaser, her first reaction was "wait is this a sequel to the Melissa McCarthy one?" I showed it to her cold, she hadn't heard the announcement about the movie. Even with all the clear signals in the teaser to the original film, she wasn't sure what to make of it. She seemed unenthused. Then I explained to her what was going on, and she got excited.

 

[terry78]

And that is the hurdle they need to clear.

 

[I Am The Knight]

All they need to do is release a trailer with the new cast, but that's a long ways off as I believe that scoop said that they were still finding the cast?