Melissa McCarthy leads
comedic all-female cast
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Who
you gonna call? Apparently two amazing female comedians
that’s who! Kirsten Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, who teamed up in Bridesmaids to
make it a huge success, well in my opinion anyway, are teaming up again in the
Ghostbuster reboot, which is set to begin filming this summer. They are not
alone of course, the two other leading ladies are Leslie Jones and Kate
McKinnon both known for their work on Saturday Night Live.
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Do I hear Ghostbuster fans grumbling
right now? Why yes, yes I think I can hear those grown men moans of agitation and their deep voices in a winey pitch
as they say girls, eew! Without Bill
Murray this movie will flop. Okay, so maybe I am ad-libbing a bit there out
of all the re-boots currently in the works I am super excited an all-female
Ghostbusters movie. I’m not looking at this re-boot as a spooky, ghost
gathering, let’s get down to business type of movie; instead, I’m expecting a
hilarious female comedy that just happens to include ghosts. I hope I won’t be
disappointed, but when does McCarthy disappoint? She simply doesn’t.
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Alright let’s dive into the movie
itself. While the new movie plot is unknown at this time according to www.imdb.com
I can tell you that actor Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis get the writing credit
for the characters. Aykroyd is also an executive producer on the film and I
only point this out because he played Dr. Raymond Stantz
in the original 1984 movie, that he and Harold Ramis actually co-wrote. So fans
out there that may be fretting this re-boot, I bet you’ll be surprised at how
well the movie turns out. Screen play credit goes to Katie Dippold and Paul
Feig. Paul Feig will also direct the film.
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In the original film we see three parapsychology
professors create a ghost removal service and the movie starred Bill Murray as
Dr. Peter Venkman, Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Raymond Stantz, Harold Ramis as Dr. Egon
Spengler, Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett, Rick Moranis as Louis Tully and
William Atherton played Walter Peck.
The movie hit theatres June 8, 1984
distributed by Columbia Pictures as a horror comedy with a PG rating. The
production budget at the time was $30-million and the movies domestic lifetime
gross is $242,212,467.
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While I may have only been a year old at
the time it was released, I certainly ended up watching it in the 1980’s and
eventually had Ghostbuster toys, like slimmer, the happy looking marshmallow
character called Stay Puft and the cool Ecto-1 vehicle. I can just imagine how
many collectors are going to start grabbing the original toy collections now,
because you know everything from the 1980’s is making a comeback.
All in all, I am looking forward to
seeing this new twist on Ghostbusters and it certainly won’t be the cast’s
fault if it does flop at the box office.
#keepitnerdy
Written by: Leanne Delong
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