"I love Katie. Our sensibilities and our comedic tastes completely dovetail with each other so when this one came up there was no other name I thought of." > (
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/10/08/p ... rs-female/)
This is my biggest....EEEEH....statement right now. He went right to his favorite co-writer, and they bantered ideas back and forth, and they got super excited, and it's going to be super great he promises. <(that article in a nutshell).
He hasn't mentioned conversations with Ivan Reitman, or story meetings with Dan. He probably won't be looking at the previous drafts of the script, even the last one Harold Ramis worked on. A thing he says over and over again is that this is going to be HIS thing, he's not remaking "a classic," he's doing his own new thing that's going to be very "fun."
I'm glad he's going to be enjoying himself so much. One thing we've always known is if Ghostbusters was going to survive, it was going to need fresh blood with new ideas and original stories, instead of someone who was repeating what he'd already seen done. At least he sounds enthusiastic, which is good, I mean, heaven knows we need some enthusiasm.
But he's keeping this firmly in his comfort zone. He's working with his favorite co-writer. He's guaranteed to pull in actors he's worked with before. He's using the same producing partner he always uses. This is going to be a very Paul Fieg movie.
But frankly, I'm not worried about the movie. The movie will take care of itself. The fact that it's a new continuity actually means fans of the old movie can completely ignore the new one, if they want to. They're only connected conceptually.
I'm more concerned about what this might mean for the comic book. If Sony pulls the license, or splits off Fiegbusters into their own thing like they did with RGB way back in the day...
THAT is what scares me right now.