By
Taylor Ferber
When the concept for Paul Feig’s remake of
Ghostbusters was first announced, it received a healthy amount of advanced praise for the gender-swapping of its lead ensemble. But it also received a massive amount of blowback from fans of the 1984 original who couldn’t imagine Winston Zeddemore and doctors Venkman, Stantz, and Spengler being replaced by a bunch of women. Unfortunately, enough of those “fans” waged a massive trolling campaign online to cast an unshakable pall over the film that hung around after it was released in 2016. Now, one year removed from the film’s release, Feig spoke at Vulture Festival L.A. about how his
Ghostbusters unintentionally turned into a “cause” he never intended to create, and how that cause may have ultimately hindered the movie’s success.