One of the late 2010s most controversial films if 2016’s Ghostbusters reboot. While the film has its enjoyable moments, I always wondered why it ignored the mythology of the original two films if director Paul Feig was able to get all the original living cast members for the film. Ernie Hudson seems to be in agreement as in a recent interview, he spoke about the reboot. Hudson stated,
“When you say reboot, which is the third movie, the one with the ladies – that I actually liked a lot. I definitely loved everybody who was in it. Paul Feig, I’m still fans of theirs – they tried to do a reboot. And a reboot, to me, means you’re trying to do the movie over. Another version of what we already did. And I think that was a mistake. It wasn’t a continuation or an extension of. It was somehow a different universe there. You know what I mean? It’s kind of like us, but it’s us but not us. In that universe, they’re women. I don’t know. That was a choice that was made.”
Hudson is a part of the latest entry of the franchise, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which recently suffered another release date chance, however, Hudson says that this is the film that the fans have been waiting decades for:
“This is Ghostbusters. As we move on through the world, 20, 30 years later, it’s still within the same universe. And the other was Ghostbusters. But like I said, it just felt like a retelling of the same story, which automatically causes comparisons that you really don’t need to be doing. I’m saying this is how I feel like. But this is Ghostbusters later. It’s been 30-35 years since we did the Ghostbusters’. And so this is years later. But definitely, it’s the same universe.”
Ghostbusters: Afterlife hits theaters this fall.
