Leslie Jones Calls Out Jason Reitman For ‘Ghostbusters’ Shade In New Memoir
deadline.comYou wouldn’t expect a memoir with “F*king” in the title to be all unicorns and rainbows. Thus, it’s no surprise that comedian Leslie Jones’s new memoir, Leslie F*cking Jones, pulls no punches, particularly when it comes to the Ghostbusters reboot she starred in alongside Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, and Melissa McCarthy.
Paul Feig directed the film Years after that movie’s release, Jason Reitman — whose father Ivan directed the original two 1980s Ghostbusters films — released Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which ignored what Feig’s film established in the franchise.
Jones said in her memoir that Jason Reitman’s comments about her edition of the film series was a “pretty clear shout-out to all those losers who went after us.” Reitman said that he was “trying to go back to the original technique and hand the movie back to the fans,” on a Bill Burr podcast. “I’m not making the Juno of Ghostbusters movies,” the Juno director said at the time. “This is gonna be a love letter to Ghostbusters….
I want to make a movie for my fellow Ghostbusters fans.” Reitman’s tried to walk back the comments after backlash on his remarks.
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