It’s been raining Ghostbusters news over the past few months, but here’s something that’s not hearsay.

As we all should know by now, Paul Feig is directing for Sony/Columbia Pictures, and has opted for the reboot to be an all-female crew. Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, Melissa McCarthy, Amy Schumer and Lizzy Caplan are all alleged to be interested in joining the new quartet of ‘busters.

I love the idea of flipping the script, so to speak, but I’ll be the first to admit it sounded gimmicky – as if the studio wanted to appease the recent screams for more female protagonists in entertainment. Feig, in an interview with Empire Magazine, responds to the accusations perfectly.

“A lot of people accused it of being a gimmick. I guess I can see the cynics’ view of it, but for me I just love working with funny women. People said, ‘Why don’t you do a mix?’ I’m just more interested in the idea of lady Ghostbusters. It’s the way my brain works.”

The aforementioned rumored cast is already enough to get me on board, but it’s nice to know this comes from a good place.

But that’s not the most interesting portion of the interview…

Feig has a very real goal – one I think is going to be extremely difficult to pull off. He wants the reboot to be scarier than the original…

“I want ours to be scarier than the original, to be quite honest. Katie Dipold and I are so focused on wanting to do scary comedy. We don’t want to hold back.”

He also speaks to why remake the film, which is actually an interesting perspective:

“There’s also the feeling that once the world knows ghosts and has seen them busted on such a large scale, they run the risk of becoming pedestrian. There’s something fun about introducing our world, which has never seen ghosts to the phenomenon of ghosts. I love origin stories and to introduce new characters.”

Origin stories are getting old, and feel incredibly lazy (especially over at Sony), but there’s a truth to his statement about the world within the movie and how they perceive the extraterrestrial. You can have a lot of fun with that.

Allegedly, the plan is to land “Game of Thrones” fav Peter Dinklage for the villain role. He would play the ghost of a murderer (sort of like Wes Craven’s Shocker, actually) who resurrects a ghost army based on historical characters.