Who Ya Gonna Call?

[Content Note: Misogyny.]

Yesterday I mentioned that the all-female Ghostbusters reboot IS GO. And I've pretty much been vibrating with excitement like Beavis on too much soda ever since.

Now this interview with the director and co-writer Paul Feig is making me EVEN MORE EXCITED!

So in the universe that you conceived, it's like the world of the first two movies didn't exist?
Yeah. I love origin stories. That's my favorite thing. I love the first one so much I don't want to do anything to ruin the memory of that. So it just felt like, let's just restart it because then we can have new dynamics. I want the technology to be even cooler. I want it to be really scary, and I want it to happen in our world today that hasn't gone through it so it's like, oh my god what's going on?

...Are you freed from having to have one person who's the Venkman and so forth, or do you feel like might adhere to some of those familiar dynamics?
We want to have fun with giving nods to what came before, but we don't want to be bound by it because Katie [Dippold, Feig's co-writer] and I already have talked at length and we have really fun ideas for things. But we want to tell the stories that we would like to tell, which means we want to tell the character arcs that we want to tell, which means we want to start with some of our characters in a different place or with different personalities and things they have to overcome and learn through the experience of this first movie.

...We have a very rough, rough outline that we're working with, but definitely know the basic story, know what we want the basic characters to do, know what we want the world to do and what the rules of our world are, but nothing I want to discuss obviously. It's cool. I think it's a really strong origin story that feels real—as real as a ghost story is. It's going to be really fun and real. We'll make it scary and funny.

...I think fans will be very happy with what we do because it has fun with what came before but it's new. It's just a new, fun take on it.

...It's a world that they've experienced before in the old ones, but the hope is the minute they sit down they'll go, "I love the old one, oh my god, I'm loving this new one."

There's so much more detail about their vision at the link! And I looooooove the approach he's describing; I am so ridiculously excited about it.

But this is for sure the best part of the whole thing:

You've worked with so many funny women, but when news first came out of your plans there was still backlash to the idea. Deadline ran a piece with the headline "Do We Want An Estrogen-Powered 'Ghostbusters?'" What is your reaction to that?
I just don't understand why it's ever an issue anymore. I've promoted both Bridesmaids and The Heat and myself and my cast are still hit constantly with the question, "will this answer the question of whether women can be funny?" I really cannot believe we're still having this conversation.

Some people accused it of kind of being a gimmick and it's like, it would be a gimmick if I wasn't somebody whose brain doesn't automatically go to like, I want to just do more stuff with women. I just find funny women so great. For me it's just more of a no-brainer. I just go, what would make me excited to do it? I go: four female Ghostbusters to me is really fun. I want to see that dynamic. I want to see that energy and that type of comedy and them going up against these ghosts and going up against human detractors and rivals and that kind of thing. When people accuse it of being a gimmick I go, why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?

That last line. Boom.

PLEASE GET THIS MOVIE IN MY FACE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THANK YOU.