Director Paul Feig Criticizes Sony For Excluding 2016 Ghostbusters Film In Franchise Box Set
The Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection joins Ghostbusters: Afterlife for a targeted February 1 release date.
Director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) took to Twitter to push back against Sony's upcoming eight-disc, franchise box set the Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection, which noticeably excludes his divisive 2016 Ghostbusters gender-swapped reboot.
Feig's film starred Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth. On social media, Feig offered that the studio must have made a "mistake," and that the film deserved inclusion because it "won the Kids Choice Award for Best Feature Film the year it came out." You can read his full response below.
Um … @SonyPictures, I know this must be a mistake. We do have a lot of fans and Bill, Dan and Ernie were in it and it won the Kids Choice Award for Best Feature Film the year it came out. So, I guess this was just an oversight? #weareallghostbusters 👻❤️ https://t.co/dI8TwJsG4I
— Paul Feig (@paulfeig) December 22, 2021
As of this writing, representatives from Sony have not issued a response. Fans have speculated that because the film takes place in a different universe and is therefore not "canon," that could be a contributing factor to its exclusion. The Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection has the original 1984 film Ghostbusters, its 1989 sequel Ghostbusters II and the newly released Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which hit theaters in November.
The box set is scheduled to be released on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K on February 1 and is currently available for pre-order. That release date is intended to also coincide with the planned February 1 release of Ghostbusters: Afterlife. An Afterlife sequel is already in the works.
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