Dan Aykroyd defends the all-female ‘Ghostbusters’ reboot

Dan Aykroyd just isn’t right here on your all-female Ghostbusters besmirchment.

In an interview with PEOPLE, the OG 1984 Ghostbusters star and co-writer defended the 2016 reboot, which was hounded by misogynist trolls earlier than it even noticed the sunshine of a theater launch.

“I favored the film [director] Paul Feig made with these spectacular girls,” Aykroyd mentioned. “I used to be mad at them on the time as a result of I used to be presupposed to be a producer on there and I did not do my job and I did not argue about prices. And it price maybe greater than it ought to, they usually all do. All these motion pictures do.”

The movie price $144 million and went on to make $229.1 million on the international field workplace, with the movie’s monetary loss estimated at about $70 million. Although the 2016 movie counts because the second-highest grossing Ghostbusters movie, behind the 1984 authentic, it was additionally the costliest, costing almost twice as a lot as 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

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“However boy, I favored that movie,” Aykroyd continued. “I believed that the villain on the finish was nice. I cherished a lot of it. And naturally, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones and Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig, you are by no means going to do higher than that. So I am going on the file as saying I am so proud to have been capable of license that film and have a hand and have a component in it, and I am totally supportive of it, and I do not besmirch it in any respect. I believe it really works actually nice amongst all those which were made.”

Simply the announcement of an all-female Ghostbusters sparked a backlash as did the trailer, main it to develop into, on the time, essentially the most disliked trailer in YouTube historical past. Although the movie itself garnered stable critiques, the viewers rating sat at a dismal 49 p.c on Rotten Tomatoes.

McCarthy and the remainder of the forged expressed their disappointment within the chilly and downright merciless reception, with the Spy star opining in 2021,  “I do not get the battle to see who could be essentially the most destructive and essentially the most hate-filled. Everyone ought to be capable to inform the story they wish to inform. In the event you do not wish to see it, you do not have to see it.”