Drop Feig, fire the executive producer who was in charge of the first reboot/sequel/unfunny pile, and kick the director. Only shot of getting an even half decent film is to slash away the horribleness that killed the last one. Feig's attempt to make safe humor resorted in the worst unfunny jokes you could come up with, and his attitude towards men and fans of the original being openly hostile and blatantly dishonest only pissed people off at what a pile of shit he was being in trying to blame racism for his film looking like ass. The push for social justice narrative and the complete deflection of what a terrible piece of shit it looked like in that first trailer by use of that only made people hate the pricks in charge of PR. And the editing of the film was utterly terrible, cuts too quick to let jokes even have a chance to work, terribly unconvincing CGI and actor interaction, and an almost overall feeling of mugging in the character's directing. Just a bad movie slapped a thin coat of ghostbuster's paint on it and cashgrabbed, to horrible results. Drop the political message that was being forcefeed, drop the jackasses that thought it was a good idea to do that, and drop the incompetence in directing and editing.
After exorcising that trash, they should look towards the successful animated series and use that as a starting point. People don't want a remake of the original (dear gods, that was why people hated the idea from the start, because it was an obvious cashgrab remake hiding behind a "progressive" new cast to attack critics of it being a soulless cashgrab) but they do like auxiliary and continuations of the idea. Have the original ghostbusters in the first 2 movies become a franchise like chuckechees after the events of the second, including the eventual decline and closing of shop after the years. The new team could be per-established workers for it who stumble their way into reviving their franchise, or something like that. There is a lot you can do with a set up like such that could be funny and relate-able to people who loved the working class nature of the first movie. You can have women, you can have black people, you can have muslims. You can have as diverse a cast and actually have people like the film as long as it isn't used like a carnival barker trying to call attention to the latest freakshow and crying racist or sexist if people don't like it. Make jokes about religious differences in opinion about ghosts. Make jokes about a black character walking around with a portable nuclear generator on his back. Make jokes about women. But make them funny.
Just make funny damn jokes and don't worry about not offending people. The safest jokes in the world offended more people than a joke in poor taste ever could when it was coupled with the attitude Feig had, and it wasn't funny to boot.
After exorcising that trash, they should look towards the successful animated series and use that as a starting point. People don't want a remake of the original (dear gods, that was why people hated the idea from the start, because it was an obvious cashgrab remake hiding behind a "progressive" new cast to attack critics of it being a soulless cashgrab) but they do like auxiliary and continuations of the idea. Have the original ghostbusters in the first 2 movies become a franchise like chuckechees after the events of the second, including the eventual decline and closing of shop after the years. The new team could be per-established workers for it who stumble their way into reviving their franchise, or something like that. There is a lot you can do with a set up like such that could be funny and relate-able to people who loved the working class nature of the first movie. You can have women, you can have black people, you can have muslims. You can have as diverse a cast and actually have people like the film as long as it isn't used like a carnival barker trying to call attention to the latest freakshow and crying racist or sexist if people don't like it. Make jokes about religious differences in opinion about ghosts. Make jokes about a black character walking around with a portable nuclear generator on his back. Make jokes about women. But make them funny.
Just make funny damn jokes and don't worry about not offending people. The safest jokes in the world offended more people than a joke in poor taste ever could when it was coupled with the attitude Feig had, and it wasn't funny to boot.
