“It was basically the studio realizing for the video catalogs, and that kind of thing, [there would be] two Ghostbusters. And I didn’t want to make it like 2016,” director Paul Feig told io9 earlier this summer. “That sounded like Airport ‘77. The next year, you’re like, ‘Oh, that’s an old movie.’ I didn’t want to have to anchor with that, so they basically said they liked [Answer the Call].”
But places are still just listing it as Ghostbusters 2016 Amazon.co.uk see? I admit even I forget the “answer the call” part of the title.
Thus i ask is it pointless as doing it so places don’t Have “ghostbusters 2016” listed as the 2016 dates it yet that’s all i see.
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Considering both movies and totally different in style, story and tone yeah it wasn’t pointless. It gets confusing if you have two movies called Star Trek II otherwise.
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He knew what you were talking about. It may seem superfluous to some, but it doesn’t hurt anything, and it also gives us an abbreviation we can use on the forum: Ghostbusters '84 and ATC, etc.
They didn’t even use the name “Answer the Call” in the infamous trailer (the phrase sure, but the title was just “Ghostbusters”), or any advertising I saw before the movie came out. First time I saw the name “Ghostbusters: Answer The Call”, was on this forum sometime after the trailer. In the black and white promo posters of each GB16 ghostbuster, the phrase is “who you gonna call?”
Seems pointless to come up with the name “Answer the Call” if you didn’t use it that much.
The studio/production hadn’t conceived the title when they first started promoting the film, it was a decision that came up over time when they realised they might need to make it easier to differentiate the listings of Ghostbusters merchandise/DVDs on product call sheets.
Yeah but it bugs me seeing two films from a movie series with the exact same name. It’s confusing in discussion especially if the original is highly regarded among movie fans.
What about Ghostbusters: The Reboot? :lol:
Ha, ha! Well said although I do feel they should have used the subtitle right from the beginning.
Most folks refer to the reboot by some abbreviation or wording that makes it clear what they’re talking about, and it’s only as annoying as you let it be.
The back calls the film “Ghostbusters (2016)”. Spines and backs on versions of the film I have seen don’t refer to it as “Ghostbusters: Answer The Call” anywhere, and only on the front it says it. Usually going with simply “Ghostbusters”. That’s why the collection was important to me, as it is a forced issue.
Here is my take away after all this… Ghost Corps, Paul Feig and crew are more inclined to call it “Ghostbusters: Answer The Call”, while Sony is calling it “Ghostbusters (2016)”. If that is the case the film will keep seeing the same labels as the (2016) one, so unless you want to disagree with the boxart the name is actually “Ghostbusters (2016)”. That is where both Wikipedia and for us that run Ghostbusters Wiki have decided. The crew might really want it to be called “Ghostbusters: Answer The Call”, but it won’t happen til Sony starts naming it the other way.
