Bridesmaids Director Paul Feig Talks About Toxicity And His Ghostbusters Reboot - GameSpot

Paul Feig, director of the 2016 Ghostbusters, recently sat down with Collider to chat about his work, revealing some interesting details on why the Ghostbusters reboot happened the way it did.

From Feig's telling of it, Sony Pictures was courting him for some time to direct a new Ghostbusters movie, and even had a script for a direct sequel to the originals.

Feig didn't like the idea; with only two of the original cast members returning, he said it would have felt like "them handing off their legacy to somebody else.".

It seems like Sony struggled to struggled to find a director interested in this sequel, with Sony Pictures' Amy Pascal asking Feig, "Why doesn't anybody want to do this?".

It was only when Feig started thinking about his own idea of a new Ghostbusters film that the reboot started becoming a possibility.

"I was just kind of like, if I could kind of reboot this and start a new origin story," he told Collider.

From Feig's telling of it, the film was never conceptualized as a genderbent reboot, beyond the director wanting to work with the funniest actors he knew--who all happened to be women.

Despite the film's box office not living up to expectations, and the overwhelming hate directed at the female-led film, Feig called out one particularly inspiring moment in the film's lifespan

A new Ghostbusters movie is currently in the works, this time as a direct sequel to the original films