Comedian Leslie Jones has blasted plans for a new “Ghostbusters” movie, one that would ignore the franchise’s female-centric 2016 iteration, as “a dick move.”Sony Pictures announced last week that it had tapped Jason Reitman to direct an all-new “Ghostbusters” that would follow the timeline of the 1984 original, which starred Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis. A two-time Oscar nominee, Reitman is the son of Ivan Reitman, who directed the first “Ghostbusters” and its 1989 sequel, “Ghostbusters II.”The new film, scheduled for release in 2020, will reportedly focus on four teenagers (two boys and two girls) but will steer clear of references to 2016′s reboot. That movie, directed by Paul Feig, introduced four women (played by Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Kristen Wiig) as a new spook-hunting team but was otherwise unrelated to its two predecessors in the series. On Saturday, Jones fired off at the news, calling it “so insulting” and “like something Trump would do.”

Source: Huffington Post January 21, 2019 17:35 UTC