When the first trailer for the new Ghostbusters hit the net, it caused something of an uproar, the video criticised for both lacking laughs, and being confusing in that it connected the film to the 1984 original while at the same time seeming to be a full-on reboot. It also quickly became the most disliked movie trailer on YouTube.
Director and co-writer Paul Feig hasn’t said much about the furore – being somewhat busy finishing said film – but when he recently stopped by IGN's London office, we asked for his thoughts about the controversy surrounding both the trailer and the film…
“It was very interesting because we were early enough in the process where we didn't have hardly any VFX we could show, we were very early in the process. So we had developed that one big shot of Time Square - we originally had a teaser trailer we were going to put out on the front of Star Wars, and it was really great but it was very... we decided to take a tone that was very serious, just to throw people off a little bit. And then at the last we all kind of decided 'Do we want to go out with that?' So we pulled it back, but we had developed that one shot of Time Square for it, but even at that I didn't think it was refined yet - I wanted to keep working on it.
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Director and co-writer Paul Feig hasn’t said much about the furore – being somewhat busy finishing said film – but when he recently stopped by IGN's London office, we asked for his thoughts about the controversy surrounding both the trailer and the film…
“It was very interesting because we were early enough in the process where we didn't have hardly any VFX we could show, we were very early in the process. So we had developed that one big shot of Time Square - we originally had a teaser trailer we were going to put out on the front of Star Wars, and it was really great but it was very... we decided to take a tone that was very serious, just to throw people off a little bit. And then at the last we all kind of decided 'Do we want to go out with that?' So we pulled it back, but we had developed that one shot of Time Square for it, but even at that I didn't think it was refined yet - I wanted to keep working on it.
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