10 Best 2016 Movie Fan Theories
8. A Sequel Not A Reboot - Ghostbusters
When it was announced that Paul Feig would be directing a Ghostbusters reboot with (shock! horror!) an all-female lead cast, fans of the original movie and misogynists everywhere were up in arms. While we can’t change the fact that Feig chose to feature female Ghostbusters, some might find comfort in the theory that the new movie is not actually a reboot, but a sequel. Which kind of means the sacred integrity of the original movie is still intact – you’re welcome, Ghostbusters purists!
The evidence for this theory comes in the form of the cameos many of the original Ghostbusters cast took up in the movie. They appear as different characters but their personalities and occupations are suspiciously related to their original characters. Bill Murray is paranormal debunker Martin Heiss; Ernie Hudson plays Ghostbuster Patty’s funeral home-owning uncle, a job in which he still works with the dead; Dan Aykroyd plays a random cabbie who knows a little too much about ‘class 5 full-roaming vapours’; Sigourney Weaver plays mentor to a new Ghostbuster and Annie Potts goes from playing Ghostbuster receptionist Janine in the original to playing a hotel desk clerk in the new film. Even the late Harold Ramis makes an appearance as a sculpted bust at the university where Kristen Wiig’s character works.
Of course, their cameos could all be explained as a homage to the original movie and its fans. But according to those behind this little theory, their suspiciously familiar cameos are proof that the first movie is still canon. They suggest that the ghostbusting events that took place in New York City back in 1984 were covered up by the government, and the original Ghostbusters kept on as paranormal consultants in case something similar should happen in future and, weirdly enough, when it does they’re all there to help out in some way or another. Unfortunately, though (or fortunately if you hated the new Ghostbusters) there are no sequels currently planned for the reboot so we may never know is this theory has any truth to it.