Looks like an all-female Ghostbusters reboot has been cast with Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig set to play the lead roles.
According to The Hollywood Reporter Melissa McCarthy has officially signed on for a part in the project while Kristen Wiig and her SNL colleagues, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon are now in final negotiations for their roles in the female instalment of the franchise.
While the actresses themselves have yet to make any official comments the spin-offs director, Paul Feig, the man at the helm of the wildly successful Bridesmaids, tweeted a picture of McCarthy, Wiig, Jones and McKinnon just before THR posted their story online.
Feig confirmed he would direct the film for Sony in October and told Entertainment Weekly that he hopes he can do the beloved franchise justice saying: “I love the first one so much I don’t want to do anything to ruin the memory of that. So it just felt like, let’s just restart it because then we can have new dynamics.”
While the rest of the cast has not been revealed fans have speculated that original Ghostbusters star Bill Murray may join the film as one of the villains, a “professional supernatural debunker.”
The film is scheduled to start shooting this July and set for release on July 22, 2016, Feig said on Twitter.
So will the movie live up to the original? Here are a few movies that did so well you mightn’t have known they were a remake.
Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy have all been tipped to take the lead roles in the the all-female remake of Ghostbusters.
Charlie and the Chocolate factory (2005) was a remake of…
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory from 1971 where Wonka was played by Gene Wilder.
Scarface (1983) was a remake of…
Scareface from 1932 which is set in Chicago instead of Miami but (SPOILER ALERT!) still ends with both Scarface’s dying while uttering their last words, “The World is Yours.”
Cute baby comedy Three Men and a Baby (1987) is a remake of…
The 1985 French film, 3 Hommes et un Couffin (Three Men and a Cradle).
The Scent of a Woman (1992) was a remake of…
The 1974 Italian film Profumo di Donna (Scent of a Woman) which starred Vittorio Gassman in Al Pacino’s role and was the voice of Mufassa for the Italian version of The Lion King.
Steve Carell’s hilarious comedy 2010 comedy Dinner for Schmucks was a remake of…
The 1998 French film Le Diner do Cons (Dinner of Fools).
Jamie Lee Curtis and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1994 film True Lies was a remake of…
French film La Totale! made three years prior in 1991.
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan’s 1998 romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail was actually a remake of…
The 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner where Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart play two characters who can’t stand each other yet fall in love through anonymous correspondence.
