Posted on 01/28/2015 5:54:02 AM PST by C19fan
The all-new, all-female Ghostsbusters are here.
Melissa McCarthy, who was already in talks for one of the leads, has signed on for the Paul Feig-directed reboot, and the studio is now negotiating with Kristen Wiig, as well as "Saturday Night Live" players Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Negotiations are ongoing but the quartet are expected to sign on as the specter-seeking, poltergeist-punishing and phantom-phollowing foursome in the reboot, which is eyeing a summer shoot in New York.
McCarthy and Wiig have worked with Feig before, both breaking out with the director's "Bridesmaids" comedy.
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Stop this crazy planet! I want off!
Next thing you'll know they'll have some Asian girl playing Dr. Watson.
Lock the doors Hollywood, you have completely run out of ideas, time to end it.
What no black version of Ghostbusters?
> Will the movie also feature LGBT ghosts?
And the ghostbusters will probably be lesbians with adopted children.
Let’ em waste their money. Meanwhile Clint Eastwood makes a patriotic movie that is a blockbuster movie that some said is the 2nd highest grossing war movie of all time and the celebrities boo it. Go figure.
FAIL.
If it’s an all-girl cast the only way it would work to where I would want to see it would be if they cast Kate Upton, Scarlette Johansson, Christina Hendricks and Sophia Vergara. With Salma Hayek playing a role too.
Ugh, a little Melissa McCarthy goes a very long way.
But who will be the Keymaster?
Egads! They sit down to pee!
How can they get a laugh out of “never cross the streams”?
“Ugh, a little Melissa McCarthy goes a very long way.”
When I first saw McCarthy I thought she was “Monica” from Friends in that fat makeup. Then I realized it wasn’t the same actress but I still thought the fat was makeup. I half believe even now that McCarthy someday is going to reveal she is and has always been a one hundred fifteen pounder. Her blubber just looks fake to me.
I second your choices for casting.
I’ve really tried to like Joan Watson but her acting style is so stiff and there really is no chemistry there. I love the series, well written, Miller is really good. But I cringe at some of her acting. Watched the scene last night where she challenges Kitty in single stick combat. Really pathetic. She’s not bad to look at and her wardrobe is wonderful though.
Lindsay Lohan?
For me it isn’t Melissa McCarthy’s weight that bothers me, it’s her acting style. It was OK in very small doses in Bridesmaids but I couldn’t make it through the movie she made with Sandra Bullock. It was just too much to bear for two hours.
Actually, I do like “Elementary”. Nothing against Lucy Liu but her face is so botoxed it expresses virtually no emotion.
I don’t mind a black James Bond so long as he’s a great James Bond.
But going out of the way to pick NO male Ghostbusters is just plain sexist.
“Little” Melissa? Surely you jest.
Ugh.. Unfunny untalented fat gimmicky Melissa McCarthy? Please, no. Please, no. Please. No.
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