There might be many reasons for the box office shortcomings of Paul Feig's Ghostbusters 2016 reboot, but among those that blame the film's flop on sexist fans and those that blame it on the film just being a terrible movie, one analyst seems to think that the fault actually lies in an entirely different franchise – Star Wars.
Amid all the hubbub over Jason Reitman's recently announced Ghostbusters 2020, analysts have been meticulously going over the failings of the Ghostbusters reboot, examining the many reasons why the film became a huge loss for Sony. Other than the expensive reshoots, Forbes writer Scott Mendelson puts the blame on the Star Wars franchise.
With Lucasfilm successfully reigniting the Star Wars franchise with sequel trilogy installment Star Wars: The Force Awakens, other franchises like Creed and Jurassic World knew that the "legacy sequel" route was the safest gameplay. However, Sony decided to move away from the norm, deciding for a reboot of a franchise which original film was so well-loved among science fiction and pop culture fans. Without the power of familiarity and nostalgia to back it up, Feig's Ghostbusters movie was bound to fail. Especially when the film just couldn't live up to the hype of the original Ghostbusters movie.
Sure, Feig and the cast might accuse sexist favoritism as one of the main reason behind the film's failings, but many reviewers note that it isn't the all-female cast that's the problem but the tropey and meandering story that make Ghostbusters a tepid watch.
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