Dan Aykroyd Defends ‘Ghostbusters’ 2016 All-Female Reboot: “It Works Really Great”
deadline.comWho you gonna call? Dan Aykroyd has a few funny women in mind. Despite its initial reception, the Academy Award nominee recently defended the 2016 female-led reboot of his 1984 comedy classic Ghostbusters as a movie “that you want to watch again.” “I liked the movie [director] Paul Feig made with those spectacular women,” he told People. “I was mad at them at the time because I was supposed to be a producer on there and I didn’t do my job and I didn’t argue about costs.
And it cost perhaps more than it should, and they all do. All these movies do. “But boy, I liked that film. I thought that the villain at the end was great.
I loved so much of it. And of course, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones and Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig, you’re never going to do better than that.
So I go on the record as saying I’m so proud to have been able to license that movie and have a hand and have a part in it, and I’m fully supportive of it, and I don’t besmirch it at all.
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