Why Dan Aykroyd ‘was mad’ at the all-female ‘Ghostbusters’ reboot: ‘I didn’t do my job’
nypost.comPeople while promoting his new Audible Original, “Blues Brothers.”Marketed as “Ghostbusters: Answer the Call,” the comedy rebooted the original and cast women to play the main parts, prompting intense criticism from misogynist trolls before it was even released. “I liked the movie [director] Paul Feig made with those spectacular women,” Aykroyd, 72, said. “I was mad at them at the time, because I was supposed to be a producer on there and I didn’t do my job and I didn’t argue about costs.
And it cost perhaps more than it should, and they all do. All these movies do.”The movie cost $144 million and grossed $229.1 million worldwide.
Despite being the second-highest grossing “Ghostbusters” film, after the 1984 original, it was also the most expensive, costing nearly twice as much as “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” (2021).
Taking into account marketing costs, the 2016 film’s financial loss was estimated at roughly $70 million.“But boy, I liked that film,” Aykroyd continued. “I thought that the villain at the end was great.
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