And the hits keep on coming from the Sony email hack.
More rumors surrounding Paul Feig's GHOSTBUSTERS reboot have been revealed, and this bit of news concerns the casting of the film's villain. We've already heard some crazy rumors leaked from the Sony email hack regarding Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, Melissa McCarthy, Amy Schumer and Lizzy Caplan being interested in joining the all-female GHOSTBUSTERS reboot, and just yesterday we learned that Ryan Gosling was interested in the 'one male part' in Feig's film (and let's not forget the crazy news that Channing Tatum wants to join Chris Pratt in a spinoff).
Vulture shared that Feig has a vision for his GHOSTBUSTERS reboot that includes "Game of Thrones" star Peter Dinklage as a convicted murderer who turns into a ghost after his execution is hit by "a supercharged electrical storm." This gives him the power to raise an army of other ghosts, which could be made up of famous villains throughout history. Dinklage as the villain? OK, this just got slightly more interesting to me.
Vulture goes on to share that in the reboot humans aren't afraid of no ghosts because they haven't met them yet. The emails reveal that his film will be "scarier and more hi-tech" than the original GHOSTBUSTERS, and that the ghosts will be busted by "four very different women" who have to "figure out in funny, scary and action-packed ways how to save New York City and the world."
Feig's emails also reveal that the Ghostbusters will work for the U.S. government, but, because ghosts don't officially exist, the government will have to continually disavow their relationship. It is also revealed that SNL funnywoman Cicily Strong is being sought as the Ghostbusters' bureaucratic nemesis who's "always saying terrible things about them in press conferences and then apologizing to them behind the scenes."
I'm sure this Sony email hack will undoubtably cause some changes to the script for the GHOSTBUSTERS reboot, so we can't be certain any of the above will actually make it into the film. But the idea that Dinklage's villain could raise an army of famous ghostly villains from history is actually a fun idea that I think could make for some genuinely funny (and potentially scary) moments.
Cicily Strong