10 Reasons An All-Female Ghostbusters Is A Terrible Idea

5. It's Exploiting The Ghostbusters Legacy

As with pretty much any reboot by their sheer nature, this new Ghostbusters movie is blatantly exploiting the lucrative Ghostbusters license and fanbase, and as Ernie Hudson himself said: if there's none of the original guys in it, how exactly is it a Ghostbusters movie? Why not just make this all-female ghost-hunting movie, keep the script mostly the same but remove the Ghostbusters name? That way they'll avoid annoying the fanbase of the original movie if it sucks, and they'll be more likely to give it a chance as it's not piggy-backing on what came before in order to make money. Hell, they can even market it as "Ghostbusters for a new generation!", but just don't call it Ghostbusters. Still, money ultimately talks, and the Ghostbusters name accounts for huge brand recognition, and therefore doesn't represent the same financial gamble as a new franchise, similar though it might be. Using the Ghostbusters name when the end result is likely to be so different from what's come before, though, seems tacky and crass, a commercial calculation rather than an artistic necessity.