Paul Feig Confirms ‘Ghostbusters’ Is a Reboot and Explains WHY

By MrDisgusting on March 3, 2016

This morning ectoplasm was thrown everywhere when Sony released the first full trailer for Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters.

All of the information leading up to the moment was through scoops, speculation and insiders with special access.

It’s been so secretive that it was never clear if this was going to be a reboot or one of those modern day remakes disguised as a sequel (by keeping it canon).

The trailer definitely made it clear that this new Ghostbusters is legitimately a reboot, a fresh start if you will, completely ignoring the previous two films and several cartoon series. In the trailer you can see them building the equipment, and also see nods to the original like with the library ghost.

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Feig confirms this in a new interview (via Cinemablend), where he explains exactly why he chose to go this path instead of keeping it in the same universe as the 1984 original.

“This is such an amazing franchise, with two amazing movies, but it could just keep going! There’s so many things you can do with it. It just seemed terrible to leave it in a box. And yet, at the same time, there’s something exciting about the idea of bringing it to a new generation, but this time… see an origin story of them. I know some people are like, ‘Why is it not a sequel instead of a reboot?’ I didn’t like the idea, personally, of them being handed technology – ‘Here’s how to do this.’ I want to see it develop!”

It’s clear by the below trailer that we’re going to see things “develop” and it makes quite a bit of sense to truly start building from the ground up, considering these characters are going to have to live on in a brand new Ghostbusters-verse that’s being planned. It would be cool to see the original Ghostbusters connected in some way, but I’d rather have a fresh start than complete fan-service, which we’re going to get in heavy doses anyways.