Not sure if many of you have seen this, so I took a quick picture for you guys. I dunno, but I feel like spending 7 hours (if true) trying to just get slime right bodes well for this movie. I do also like the idea of limiting CGI use and trying to make “pants-shitting” ghosts. With all the negativity surrounding this movie I felt like this would be a nice little positive thing to add.
Hmmm… Thanks for sharing, interesting article… As iffy as I am with this movie, I would still like to think he is putting some kind of effort forth in to this…
Sounds like he’s putting a lot of effort into this film. If he does this for the slime, imagine what he put into the pack and the ecto (and the rumored PKE and trap we haven’t seen). You don’t have to like what they ended up looking like, but I figure an OCD guy like Feig made sure there was a purpose to every part.
I’ve been excited for this film from the get go, but this article has actually made me even more excited. I have no doubt that Feig is going to put that extra love and care into he film franchise we love. Oh, and making this a workplace comedy… that’s the vibe I want. A bunch of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances and yet, there just a few girls doing their job.
I like the way this sounds, but at times I think what he is describing above is exactly what made the original Ghostbusters work. It was pretty much a workplace comedy with supernatural elements envolved, so if that is what they are going for awesome. The way he talks though makes me think he hasn’t seen the original movie in a while. He says he wants to create pants S#%^*** Scary Ghosts and not cute cuddly ghosts. The Librarian Ghost was pretty scary, and Gozer in her original form wasn’t exactly a kitten. Sometimes I think he is thinking of Ghostbusters 2 or the cartoon when he refers to the original as screwball. I am glad he is putting effort into this movie, but I keep picking up an arrogant distain for the Original Source material everytime he opens his mouth. I can’t really blame him though, it would be hard to speak well of the source material when your working to put a product out and every little thing you tweet just results in some people being pointlessly cruel to you. I guess that kind of thing could get tired after awhile. 
Here’s more on the matter.
That article actually gives me hope for the film. Maybe all the spoilers and leaks really aren’t helping the cause because you aren’t seeing any of it in context…
Emphasis mine; that’s awesome.
The online version of the GQ article has a pic of a bunch of failed slime formula, too.
Ugh…was that article written by a freshman lit student? Come on gq I thought you were high brow, this reads like it was written for the school newspaper…
While I still don’t care too much about the reboot, I will say that it’s cool that Paul Feig is trying to go for practical effects. I wish people would use puppets and real life objects more often. I also like the thought going into the slime.
I think this writer sounds like she’s complaining about the original too much. Remember all of those crappy things about the original Ghostbusters movie that made it great, well this new one will be better because it’s so gritty, realistic, dark, serious and not fun at all!
I always thought the ghosts in GB were too childish and imagined what GB would be like if the ghosts were terrifying.
The busts would be that much more satisfying to watch.
Great that Feig seems to agree. This sounds good.
I thought the same. Especially with that… cloudy pattern they used for a frame on the top.
So is he making this into a Horror- Comedy then?
Thanks for posting, doesn’t make me want to see this movie, but interesting none the less. I didn’t think any of his movies have enjoyed anywhere near the success that bridesmaids did.
Spy has almost earned as much as Bridesmaids.
Fieg was chosen because no one else would do it. And, even at that point, he had to be asked several times before he agreed. So let’s spin that into how he is the perfect one to direct this and leave out how he was actually last chosen for kickball.
Kinda like Judge Stone in the very first episode of Night Court:
“I was the last one on the list…but I was on the list”