You can’t say Leslie Jones hasn’t yet gotten over the firestorm of criticism surrounding the 2016 100% Female Ghostbusters directed by Paul Feig. In his memoirs, recently published in the United States, Leslie F*king JonesIt sparks an avalanche of racist abuse on Twitter after the film.
Such a violent rise that he also announced that he was leaving Twitter in July 2016: “I leave twitter tonight with tears and a broken heart. All because I made a movie. You may hate the movie but everything I got today is unfair” he wrote.
In his memoirs, he once again echoes Jason Reitman, the son of Canadian director and producer Ivan Reitman, who made two Ghostbusters movies in the 80s, and whose son directed Ghostbusters: Legacy, which was released in 2021.
Reason ? Comments that Jason Reitman made in the episode Bill Barry’s Monday Morning Podcast In 2019, clarified his intentions for his upcoming film Ghostbusters: Legacy. “I want to go back to my roots and give back to the fans” He commented. add: “I don’t do that Juno Ghostbusters movies. It’s going to be a love letter to Ghostbusters… I want to make a movie for Ghostbusters fans.”
A wording that suggests the 2016 film was completely unremarkable, thus not true to the franchise’s DNA or even its standards. Leslie Jones He did not ask for an answer : “Too offensive. Like ‘out of your mind’. We don’t count. Sly positioning. And I don’t care, at least I’m saying something!”
Reitman tried to backtrack to defuse the criticism, explaining that he misrepresented himself and that the women were ghosts. “huge”, “the damage was done” For Leslie Jones. “Spreading the idea of giving back to movie fans was a pretty clarion call to all the losers who were harassed for making a female movie.” The actor writes.
An anecdote that says a lot about the popularity of Paul Feig’s film. Film director in 2021 Sony moved it He hasn’t even seen his movie, which is included in the Blu-ray box set that is supposed to include the films in the saga: “Um…Sony Pictures, I think that’s a mistake. We have a lot of fans and Bill and Danny and Ernie were there and he It won the Kids’ Choice Award for Best Feature Film in its year of release. So I guess it was just an oversight? “
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