'Ghostbusters' director Paul Feig revealed that Sigourney Weaver and Ernie Hudson will make a cameo in his upcoming female-led reboot. The two were original members of the 1984 hit. Feig also took to his social media account to lash out at misogynistic critics that had been bothering him for months.
According to CNN, Feig spoiled waiting audiences by tweeting Sigourney Weaver and Ernie Hudson's upcoming cameos for his latest project. He said, "Gang, trying to keep surprises but this is about to leak, so I'll tell you myself: the awesome Sigourney Weaver is going to be in our movie!" The film will feature a female-led cast starring Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones as the newest main protagonists.
Another article by The Guardian reported that Ernie Hudson will also be making a cameo. It is still unclear, however, whether he will be reprising his role as Winston Zeddemore - one of the four original Ghostbusters who fought against the paranormal alongside Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. Hudson made waves in the past calling Feig's 'Ghostbusters' reboot "a bad idea".
It seemed that Hudson wasn't the only one who criticized the 53-year old filmmaker's revisionary take on the '80s cult film. According to Digital Spy, Feig recently took to Twitter once more to air out his grievances against the barrage of insults that he and his new cast had to endure during the film's production. One of his posts reads, "You've been ranting at me and my cast for months with misogyny and insults. So go f*** yourself. Goodnight."
Feig is known for his work on previous comedy films in the past including 'Spy', 'The Heat', 'Unaccompanied Minors', and the Academy Award-nominated flick 'Bridesmaids'. He has worked with both Wiig and McCarthy on the latter.
'Ghostbusters' is an upcoming supernatural comedy scheduled to be released on July 15, 2016 and is a rework of the franchise made popular in the 1980s. The first and original film was released in 1984 and became an instant hit. The franchise continued to grow afterwards with licensed action figures, novels, television series, a theme park attraction, comic books and video games.
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