Dan Aykroyd defends the all-female Ghostbusters reboot: 'I loved so much of it'

Dan Aykroyd defends the all-female 'Ghostbusters' reboot: 'I loved so much of it'

The 2016 film starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones was the target of a lot of online hate.star and co-writer defended the 2016 reboot, which was hounded by misogynist trolls before it even saw the light of a theater release."I liked the movie Paul Feig made with those spectacular women," Aykroyd said. "I was mad at them at the time because I was supposed to be a producer on there and I didn't do my job and I didn't argue about costs.

And of course,, you're never going to do better than that. So I go on the record as saying I'm so proud to have been able to license that movie and have a hand and have a part in it, and I'm fully supportive of it, and I don't besmirch it at all. I think it works really great amongst all the ones that have been made."sparked a backlash as did the trailer, leading it to become, at the time, the most disliked trailer in YouTube history.

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