Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy = new Ghostbusters

Like this exchange:

Aubrey: What's your name?
Fat Amy: Fat Amy.
Aubrey: You call yourself Fat Amy?
Fat Amy: Yeah, so twig bitches like you don't do it behind my back.

Anyway, per the thread, as long as they don't have her panting and sweating in the back of the line, or shoving Twinkies in her face as she fights ghosts, it's likely weight won't be an issue. Everyone looks fat in a Ghostbusters jumpsuit. BTW, anyone see Zach G. lately?

http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/streams/2015/January/150126/2D274907703614-today-zach-galifianakis-150126-01.blocks_desktop_large.jpg

whoa

I would have agreed with you before super fun night tanked - compared to McCarthy Wilson has proven pretty one-note. When riffing in pitch perfect she just calls out who has red hair, etc

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sad thing is, she wasn't like that in Super Fun Night at all!

like, there's a ton of stuff Will Ferrell does that is funny as is, but if an imaginary female or black or 400-pound Will Ferrell did it, the dialogue would completely shift to "it's funny because he/she's _____."

the thing is, it wouldn't just be people considering representation making the complaint the humor is ____-based, there would also be people laughing harder because of _____. there were racist bugs bunny cartoons they redrew with elmer fudd in place of a lazy black child - it's not that the humor is necessarily drawn from race/size/etc, but who america enjoys seeing play the clown.

i really feel bad for comedians who're asked to think about this shit. playing the clown is fun, and god knows will ferrell will never have to sweat this stuff.

I'm just gonna thank the lord Will Ferrell is not in this new Ghostbusters.

Well, they haven't cast Slimer yet.

jack black's ears are burning...

I'm feeling Miley Cyrus for that.

So are they going to have a male Janine Melnitz?

if they haven't already cast Billy Eichner I'll be shocked

Is there going to be a Stay-Puft Marshmallow Woman?

gozer gonna be a naked dude all covered in bubbles.

Erin Gabler and Abby Bergman are the first two leads, and as the film begins, they are former colleagues. They co-wrote a book about the paranormal together, then went in different directions. Erin works for Columbia, and she's getting close to tenure, while Abby is more involved in the pursuit of ghosts, with a new partner named Jillian. In a world where there are thirty different "Ghost Hunters" style TV shows out there, the set-up makes sense, and it sets up a tension between serious academic motives and mainstream pop parapsychology.

If I was guessing, I'd bet Wiig is Erin, Jones is Abby, and McKinnon is Jillian. That's because I'm almost positive Patty, an MTA subway ticket employee who stumbles across the main ghost in the film, is going to be McCarthy. Seems like a perfect fit for her, and I can see how all four of them will fit together as a team.

There are some other major roles to cast, and based on conversations at Sony, it seems like they'e got some people in mind already. I'm curious to see if they land Peter Dinklage as the main bad guy, a creepy mechanical genius, but there's another role that, if they cast who they want, is going to be the most interesting part of the film. Like I said, these aren't direct one-to-one corollaries, but there is a character named Martin Heiss who is a professional supernatural debunker. When our new Ghostbusters post some videos of what they're doing online, Heiss becomes determined to prove that they are fakes, and he ends up at odds with the team for the whole film.

And who do they want to step into William Atherton's shoes?

Bill Murray, of course.

But isn't at least part of the reason they went with a reboot rather than a sequel that they couldn't get Murray onboard? Or did he just not want to play Venkman again?

they're obviously not getting Murray

Aykroyd would be better for that part anyway.

get Murray to do a voice-only ghost/monster character, if he can go into a vocal booth and be Garfield he can do that.

tbh i don't really care if anyone from the original has anything to do with this though? if it's good it'll be because the new people stepped up.

Oh, wait, Murray probably didn't want to be involved due to his falling out with Ramis. Problem solved, I guess?

i don't have anything to add to this other than that i saw Tammy and it is one of the worst movies i've ever seen

who are they going to get to reboot the theme song

Bruno Mars

Huey Lewis

Haim

Katy Perry

^ all of them

katy perry definitely seems like the one who'd start posting instagrams about how badly she wants to

Can't wait for the video where Don Draper goes "Ghostbusters!" right after Owen Wilson says "Ghostbusters!"

Ben Stiller already figuring out how to make the most of his three seconds

http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/media/gb2_music_onourown_vid11.jpg

I was looking at the file title and forgetting what thread I was on and thinking "what does Patti LaBelle have to do with Ben Stiller"

Can't wait for the video where Don Draper goes "Ghostbusters!" right after Owen Wilson says "Ghostbusters!"

― pplains, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 11:52 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ irl lol

http://screencrush.com/ghostbusters-music-video/

George Wendt:
"I was shooting with Jerry Schatzberg and Demi Moore, it was a Columbia picture, 'No Small Affair' at what used to be the Burbank studios -- it was Columbia and Warner Bros. And Ivan Reitman stopped over at the stage and asked if I could stop over at his office at lunch. So, at lunch I went over to his office and I sat there and they played the track. And I said 'Ghostbusters,' and that was pretty much it. The weird thing was I think we all got in trouble with the Screen Actors Guild after the fact, after it came out. You know, it sounded like a giggle, it sounded like fun, so I just did it. It took less than five minutes. But, I guess it was such a big hit as a music video, I guess SAG decided that would be a good project to maybe try to take a stand against to organize music videos. I can't blame SAG for trying to make a stand to organize music videos, which was a relatively new format back then. Not much came of it, we just got letters saying that's not cool, don't do that again and if you do that again you'll be on secret double probation. But, I get it. I'm a union man. I'm OK with it. It just never occurred to me that it would be a problem."

get Murray to do a voice-only ghost/monster character, if he can go into a vocal booth and be Garfield he can do that.

tbf, Murray only did Garfield because he thought it was a Coen Brothers movie:

Plus, I looked at the script, and it said, "So-and-so and Joel Coen." And I thought: Christ, well, I love those Coens! They're funny. So I sorta read a few pages of it and thought, Yeah, I'd like to do that. I had these agents at the time, and I said, "What do they give you to do one of these things?" And they said, "Oh, they give you $50,000." So I said, "Okay, well, I don't even leave the fuckin' driveway for that kind of money."

...

Finally, I went out to L.A. to record my lines. And usually when you're looping a movie, if it takes two days, that's a lot. I don't know if I should even tell this story, because it's kind of mean. [beat] What the hell? It's interesting. So I worked all day and kept going, "That's the line? Well, I can't say that." And you sit there and go, What can I say that will make this funny? And make it make sense? And I worked. I was exhausted, soaked with sweat, and the lines got worse and worse. And I said, "Okay, you better show me the whole rest of the movie, so we can see what we're dealing with." So I sat down and watched the whole thing, and I kept saying, "Who the hell cut this thing? Who did this? What the fuck was Coen thinking?" And then they explained it to me: It wasn't written by that Joel Coen.

omg

the script for A Tail Of Two Kitties was also credited to Joel Cohen. Can't believe bill fell for it a second time.

For future reference: who's cameo in the "ghostbusters" video do you enjoy most?

wait that link is fucked up - where's the entire interview?

A Cohen Bros. Garfield movie sounds incredible

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201008/bill-murray-dan-fierman-gq-interview?currentPage=1

And the pieces fall into place.

[shakes head sadly] At least they had what's-her-name. The mind reader, pretty girl, really curvy girl, body's one in a million? What's her name? Help me. You know who I mean.

Jennifer Love Hewitt?

Right! At least they had her in good-looking clothes. Best thing about the movie. But that's all ugly. That's inappropriate. That's just… [laughs] That's why, when they say, "Any regrets?" at the end of Zombieland, I say, "Well, maybe Garfield."

It's interesting that the same guy voices Bill Murray's character in the Real Ghostbusters cartoon AND Garfield's voice in the Garfield & Friends cartoon. He's a pro Bill Murray impersonator.

It's a tangled web

LAMARCHE: They asked me not to do Harold Ramis and I still did it. Because I didn’t know anything else to do with the character. So everything at that point that I’d done was derivative and I had absolutely no original thoughts or voices. So the only thing I could do was Ramis. So I did it, and for some reason it was the only voice that sounded like the original voice from the movie. They decided they could let that slide and Egon was such a specific character they really had to honor Harold Ramis’ unique take on that character. After 65 episodes, apparently legend has it Bill Murray finally came forward and said, “How come Harold’s guy sounds just like him and my guy sounds like Garfield?” And they said, “Well, Bill, that’s because the guy who does the voice of Garfield is doing your character.” Now, Bill’s not asking him to be fired or anything. But this one comment from Bill Murray, and with them having Ghostbusters 2 in the works, somebody in the machine said, “You know what? Bill’s unhappy. We got to get a guy who sounds like him.” And so Dave Coulier took over the part after 65 episodes and Lorenzo Music lost the part, and it was a very strange transition because I loved them both, and thought both they did a great job with the character. But the irony - the huge irony - of it is that now with the Garfield movie, Bill Murray has taken over the part originally voiced by Lorenzo Music.

What were Murray's movies before Ghostbusters? Meatballs, Caddyshack, and Stripes? He was a well-meaning weirdo slob, basically. As McCarthy has been in the couple of movies I've seen her in. So why couldn't she do Venkman? Murray had to stretch a bit in the role compared to his previous movies. I am way more worried about the issue latebloomer brought up, which is that part of what makes the original so awesome is Dan Aykroyd's affectionate and considered approach to the supernatural. Feig has zero chance of doing that, as far as I can tell.

the heat was kind of thin, but i think feig's work is relatively affectionate and considered. i don't think its beyond him to have the ghost hunters be earnest and to end the movie going "new york yay"

ivan reitman's previous movies were meatballs and stripes too

Someone writing at Jezebel as "A Hysterical Man" mockingly rounds up exactly the kinds of reactions you'd expect from very stupid people on this topic. http://jezebel.com/new-all-feminist-ghostbusters-is-a-punch-in-the-dick-to-1682292125

anyone who's really indignant should just finance their own reboot of this show:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_(1986_TV_series)