Director Paul Feig recently spoke with MTV about his upcoming Ghostbusters reboot, which will feature Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones as the new busters.
In a brief interview, Feig speaks to the dilemma of both acknwoleding the original films, but also not letting it become a distraction. He’s found “balance.”
“You don’t want to pretend the other one didn’t exist, because I think that’s a little too in your face, but you also don’t want to be so slavish to the other one,” said Feig. “I think we found a really good balance. Katie Dippold, who is writing the script with me, is just so good, and so good at kind of going, ’these are the things I love.’ Well okay, let’s do the nods towards that. I think everybody will be very happy.
“The problem is, I’ve got so many amazing women that I know, and I can’t write movies that have enough parts for everybody. There’s so many women I haven’t worked with yet who I’m desperate to work with. I need to keep doing more movies, and more people have to hire these people, and don’t leave it to me, because I can only do so many movies. So Hollywood, start hiring these funny women and giving them movies, please.”
You can watch the short video interview below.