Melissa McCarthy Admits The Ghostbusters Trailer Was 'Very Confusing'
It’s emerged as the most disliked trailer ever on YouTube, and now star Melissa McCarthy has admitted that the teaser for the new ‘Ghostbusters’ movie is all rather confusing.
It appears that the movie makes like the original Ghostbusters never happened, rather than being a continuation of the storyworld, which the trailer seemed to imply rather explicitly.
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“It’s a reboot not a remake,” she told US radio show The Johnjay & Rich Show.
“I know its weird that they say [in the trailer] ‘30 years ago’, but in this movie it’s like the first one didn’t happen.
“It’s a great story but it’s told totally differently. It’s four unlikely heroes, it’s in New York City, ghosts are taking over; it’s that same classic story but it’s not 30 years later… it’s not dependent on the first one.”
The trailer for the Paul Feig-directed, all-female reboot has so far received a record-breaking 600,000 thumbs down votes on YouTube, more than any other trailer and landing it a place on the website’s top 20 least-liked pieces of content, putting it alongside the likes of 'Gangnam Style’ and 'Friday’ by Rebecca Black.
McCarthy then went on to say that they’d mentioned the issue to the studio Sony, but appeared to have been ignored.
“Believe me the question was asked,” she said.
“I think that it’s very confusing. But then everyone said we don’t care what you think.”
The movie has been mired in controversy since it was first announced that Feig, helmsman of movies like 'Bridesmaid’s was rebooting the 'Ghostbusters’ franchise.
Thanks to an ugly seam of online sexism, the choice to make the heroes women has angered some movie fans.
Feig said (before the dislikes hit its current high): “The haters on our trailer were very proud of the fact they had racked up 400,000 dislikes on YouTube versus 200,000 likes.
“But [given the number of views] that’s not a majority by anybody standards. Some of it is that people don’t want an old property touched – I’m sympathetic to that. But the ones who are hating it because it’s about women? That’s just a non-starter.”
There have also been accusations of casual racism in the movie too, however, with some criticising the decision to make Leslie Jones’ character a 'sassy’ blue-collar subway worker alongside her academic white counterparts.
In response, she tweeted: “Why can’t a regular person be a ghostbuster. Im confused. And why can’t i be the one who plays them i am a performer. Just go see the movie!
“Regular People save the world everyday so if I’m the sterotype!! Then so be it!! We walk among Heroes and take them for granted.
“I’m playing a hardworking woman.The regular one that rep the people. You guys are the racists by labeling her a lowly MTA worker.Not me.”
Image credits: Sony
