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Paul Feig calls out Sony for excluding his 2016 female-led Ghostbusters reboot in the upcoming Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection box set.
Director Paul Feig recently called out Sony for not including his 2016 Ghostbusters reboot as part of an upcoming eight-disc Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection box set.
“Um … @SonyPictures, I know this must be a mistake,” Feig tweeted alongside a link to a Slash Film article about his film’s exclusion. “We do have a lot of fans and Bill [Murray], Dan [Aykroyd] and Ernie [Hudson] were in it and it won the Kids Choice Award for Best Feature Film the year it came out. So, I guess this was just an oversight?” The director also added the hashtag “#WeAreAllGhostbusters.”
The eight-disc Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection box set will be accompanied by a copy of the Making Ghostbusters book and will be released on Feb. 1, 2022. Ghostbusters: Afterlife will also be released on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD and as part of a three-film standard Blu-ray that also includes Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989) on the same day.
Released in 2016, Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot starred Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones as an all-female ghost-catching squad in New York City. The film was plagued by criticism over the all-female cast and was review-bombed by the public before it even landed in theaters.
While original Ghostbusters stars Murray, Aykroyd and Hudson made cameos and the film ended up grossing $229 million worldwide against its $144 million budget, Sony ultimately decided to not follow it up with a sequel and instead greenlit Afterlife.
Aykroyd later blamed Feig for the film being a box office failure, saying in part, “[Ghostbusters] made a lot of money around the world but just cost too much, making it economically not feasible to do another one. So that’s too bad.” He added, “The director, he spent too much on it. He didn’t shoot scenes we suggested to him and several scenes that were going to be needed and he said, ‘Nah, we don’t need them.’ Then we tested the movie and they needed them and he had to go back. About $30 to $40-million in reshoots. So he will not be back on the Sony lot any time soon.”
Hudson, who portrayed Winston Zeddemore in the original films and Afterlife, also went on record calling Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot 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,” the actor said in early 2021. “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.”
Ghostbusters: Afterlife will be released on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD, as well as part of the three-film standard Blu-ray and the Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection box set on Feb. 1, 2022.
Source: Twitter, Slash Film
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