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You kind of hope the folks behind the new Ghostbusters threw out their phones and quit the Internet cold turkey a couple years ago. Regardless of whether you think the movie looks good, I think most decent people would agree nobody deserves the sheer quantity of hate the makers and stars of Ghostbusters have been subjected to. Unfortunately, it seems like Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones are all too aware of the response – they somewhat uncomfortably joked about it on Jimmy Kimmel recently, and apparently felt they needed to add some ad-libbed scenes to the movie to address the controversy.
Early in the new Ghostbusters, the team uploads a video of their bustin’ prowess to YouTube and are of course buried in an avalanche of horrifying comments, which they riff on. According to Wiig and McCarthy, that scene wasn’t in the original script, or if it was, it changed once the Ghostbusters backlash struck…
“Melissa McCarthy: I feel like it was added to the script.
Kristen Wiig: Was that part in [the script], but we changed what they said?
McCarthy: Something like that. We did something on the day that tweaked it. It’s very loose. I think it’s how most of us work.”
Like McCarthy said, ad-libbing is pretty common in Paul Feig movies, but it is interesting that the cast knew the elephant in the room would need to be addressed early on during filming. I can only imagine what they’d do if they got to re-shoot Ghostbusters now – the movie would probably just be an hour of slamming YouTube comments followed by the team fighting a giant version of the Twitter mascot.
Ghostbusters, which is getting pretty solid reviews, hits theaters this Friday. Don’t worry, you can see it, like it, and still pretend you hate it on Reddit.
(Via io9)
