Dan Aykroyd, one of many authentic Ghostbusters, is defending 2016’s all-female reboot of Ghostbusters, which was met with racist and sexist criticism from on-line trolls following its debut.
The actor and screenwriter, who starred as Dr. Ray Stantz within the 1984 film in addition to penned the script, opened up in a current interview with Folks about his appreciation for the total franchise, together with the Paul Feig-directed installment starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.
“I favored the film Paul Feig made with these spectacular girls,” Aykroyd stated. “I used to be mad at them on the time as a result of I used to be imagined to be a producer on there and I didn’t do my job and I didn’t argue about prices. And it price maybe greater than it ought to, they usually all do. All these films do.”
“However boy, I favored that movie,” the Saturday Night time Stay alum continued. “I assumed that the villain on the finish was nice. I beloved a lot of it. And naturally, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones and Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig, you’re by no means going to do higher than that. So I am going on the file as saying I’m so proud to have been in a position to license that film and have a hand and have an element in it, and I’m totally supportive of it, and I don’t besmirch it in any respect. I believe it really works actually nice amongst all those which have been made.”
The forged of the 2016 reboot have beforehand spoken out concerning the hateful feedback they obtained, together with McCarthy and Jones. The latter recalled the “on-line abuse” in her memoir, Leslie F*cking Jones, final 12 months, saying she “received taken by the ringer.”
“Why are individuals being so evil to one another? How will you sit and sort ‘I wish to kill you.’ Who does that?” Jones added in her memoir. “Unhappy keyboard warriors dwelling of their mom’s basements hated the truth that this hallowed work of good artwork now featured — gasp! horror! — girls within the lead roles. Worst of all, after all, was that one of many lead characters was a Black lady. For some males this was the ultimate straw.”
On the time, the Coming 2 America star additionally slammed Jason Reitman, the director of 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, for saying he was “not making the Juno of Ghostbusters films” and was “attempting to return to authentic method and hand the film again to the followers.”
Although Reitman later clarified that his feedback “got here out improper,” Jones wrote in her memoir that “the harm was finished.”
