Well the best comedians are getting a bit on in years and probably cost more money than they were willing to spend. Whoopi Goldberg, Betty White, Fat Amy from Pitch Perfect (cant never remember her name, but I am sure she wouldn’t be cheap).
They would have been better off setting it in London and hiring the Spice Girls for their 20th anniversary and tried for a 2-for name game, and maybe throw in another now famous Brit like Emma Watson for the trifecta of nostalgia and current pop.
Yeah modern SNL is a bit of the problem, like the new “Vacation” movie trying to replace National Lampoon’s Vacation. These kids are half of what Chevy and the rest were. even National Lampoons Van Wilder or whatever was just basically soft core porn.
Ghostbusters will be like all that, just flash in the pan spotlight, here today gone tomorrow, for the next fad. All because some moron wants to capture a memory from THEIR past to remake something they loved, but fail to understand, they aren’t the original creator, nor is their fan-fic twist all that great.
Ocean’s series: 11, 12, 13 updated very well to modern times in the absence of the Rat Pack, and made a sort of new Rat Pack, but it only was as strong as those few films.
Modern day hacks, thinking they can do anything because they saw someone else do it, is all I see from Disney in regards to ALL the old Disney movies and Star Wars; to every other remake. What people want is Avatar 2, 3, and 4 when dingleberry stops wasting time and finishes them, not more campy Star Trek knock-offs, Lost in Space knock-offs on some streaming site, etc. and THAT movie was pretty bad just using pop icons from that time, Joey from Friends, little girl from Party of 5, Heather Graham from Boogie Nights, Mimi Driver and William Hurt were the only real stars, with Gary Oldman closing the gap fast n those years with Professional and later 5th Element. That poor quality with a throwback to the original Penny Robinson as a reporter is what I expect from Ghostbusters, with just another bad reboot story, same as most other nostalgia trips. While things like Battlestar Galactica was just dumb and name dropping while Stargate Atlantis was better than it was! They should have just kept spending the money there. But even Stargate is getting a reboot for a trilogy.