The feedback Leslie Jones calls out in her memoir had been made on February 18, 2019, when Jason Reitman — son of Ivan Reitman, who directed the primary two “Ghostbusters” motion pictures — joined comedian Invoice Burr for an episode of his “Monday Morning Podcast.” Whilst discussing his new directorial challenge, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” Reitman mentioned, “I am not making the ‘Juno’ of ‘Ghostbusters’ motion pictures,” a reference to his 2007 coming-of-age indie. He added, “I would like to make a movie for my fellow ‘Ghostbusters’ lovers.”
Reitman’s remarks drew ire from individuals who felt he was once brushing aside the paintings carried out within the 2016 movie. Two days later, Reitman took to X to explain, writing, “I’ve not anything however admiration for Paul [Feig] and Leslie [Jones] and Kate [McKinnon] and Melissa [McCarthy] and Kristen [Wiig] and the bravery with which they made Ghostbusters 2016. They expanded the universe and made an incredible movie!”
Reitman may have loved the 2016 model of the movie, however “Afterlife,” which stars Mckenna Grace, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, and Paul Rudd, utterly ignores the occasions in Feig’s model. As an alternative, “Afterlife” acts as an extension of the tales instructed within the 1984 and 1989 motion pictures. Jones says she was once not able to settle for Reitman’s social media apology, writing in her e-book that “the wear and tear was once carried out.” She provides that Reitman’s feedback had been “a horny transparent shout-out to all the ones losers who went after us for making an all-female [movie].”
