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.
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. Continue Reading at GameSpot
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