About a year ago, this is what Dan Aykroyd had to say about the “Ghostbusters” remake/reboot:
Oh, how things of changed. Over the weekend, the actor got out his proton pack and aimed it at director Paul Feig, claiming the filmmaker ignored advice given to him about scenes that were needed for the movie, leading to reshoots that cost $30-40 million. However, Sony has come out and disputed those figures. The studio said in a statement to Deadline, the reshoots actually only cost between $3 million and $4 million, so somebody might want to check his math again.
At any rate, Aykroyd isn’t issuing any apologies and drawing back on his comments. In a new post on Facebook, he now says “Ghostbusters” is simply a “good movie,” but goes on to complain it wasn’t “more inclusive to the originators” (wait, didn’t they all have cameos?) and says again, that the movie cost too much, and that the cast will never reprise their roles. In fairness, the movie was expensive at $144 million, and certainly needed a better box office result than the $229 million to warrant a sequel.
Paul Feig or the cast have yet to respond, but I can only imagine it’ll be a matter of time, especially if Aykroyd keeps lobbing shots at the picture.
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I’ve still never seen it (I have nothing against it, I just simply have no desire to watch it) but a common complaint I noticed in reviews was that it tried too hard to accommodate the previous films, often at the sacrifice of doing something unique.
It’s odd that he’s picked now as the time to start this though – maybe he thinks if he can generate enough controversy about it, Sony might change their minds on a sequel?
It has a very similar plot to the original one but it moves at a more slow pace.
Why start with all this complains one year later? Well, can you imagine if he said before the release “It’s crap, i was disapointed on it”? that’s bad press and that can hurt the box office of the film, which already had a lot stacked against. Maybe he’s talking now because during its theater run he didn’t wanted to hurt it. The concept is his baby so i guess he must have disliked it wasn’t made justice.
I completely understand him not trashing it as it was run theatrically (especially when there was all the praise being put toward the likes of himself and most of the other surviving cast agreeing to cameo in it), what I don’t get is him (sort of, but quite) trashing it now, long after the film’s been released on home media. It just seems like he’s attempting to seize an opportunity at a wrong time.