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Paul Feig Reveals ‘Ghosbusters’ Character Names!
Director Paul Feig has revealed the character names of the brand new Ghostbusters, tweeting out that Melissa McCarthy plays Abby Yates, with Kristen Wiig as Erin Gilbert, Kate McKinnon as Jillian Holtzmann, and Leslie Jones as Patty Tolan.
It’s clear these new players juxtapose the original busting crew that consisted of Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Raymond Stantz, Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman, Harold Ramis as Dr. Egon Spengler, and Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddmore.
In the film, Erin Gilbert (Wiig) and Abby Yates (McCarthy) play a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real. Flash forward a few years and Wiig lands a prestigious teaching position at Columbia U. Which is pretty sweet, until her book resurfaces and she is laughed out of academia.
Gilbert reunites with Yates and the other two proton pack-packing phantom wranglers (Jillian Holtzmann and Patty Tolan), and she gets some sweet revenge when ghosts invade Manhattan and she and her team have to save the world.
The busting begins on July 22, 2016.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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