>>5402975It's also important to make the distinction between Remakes and reboots:
Remakes only work if technology/funding at the time wasn't high enough to make the movie good. However, bad movies don't get remakes, so it's very rare to find actually good remakes. The Fly, Parent Trap, Scarface, Sweeney Todd, Hairspray, are some that retread the original story well when most don't.
Reboots, on the other hand, are great. They reexamine the world and story of the original, introduce new characters and themes, and feature cameos and small parts by the originals, all without stepping on the original story and original characters. SWVII The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, and others can don't invalidate previous films of their series/franchise.
Remakes aim to replace the originals, while Reboots are content to stand in front of them and refresh the franchise, without stamping out the original's faded territory.
Now, if INSTEAD this movie was inspired by and done in the same style/spirit of Ghostbusters, not just the same script with the sexes switched around, then it could do quite well. Imagine instead a story of four zombie hunters/exorcists, with a generally light hearted comedy feel? Same kind of base premise (four friends fight the supernatural in a comedy) but different enough to be it's own work.
Fuck, I'D watch a comedy starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon as traveling zombie hunters who get into hi-jinks and are barely competent enough to succeed (just like in Ghostbusters) and ultimately save the world from the zombie apocalypse or something. Have some hot guy who recently turned into a zombie (but still conscious) become a love interest for one of the gals
Ta-da! a movie that'd make everyone happy (or at least not mad)
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