‘Ghostbusters’ photos reveal uniforms, packs, Ecto-1 as new cast added
Director Paul Feig has taken to Twitter to keep updating fans with pics from his new Ghostbusters reboot, featuring an all-female team. News of the cast growing has also garnered interest as Andy Garcia, Michael K. Williams and Matt Walsh will have roles in the film.
Paul Feig tweeted a picture of the new all-female Ghostbusters cast in front of the new ECTO-1 after revealing images of the uniforms and the new proton pack.
From left to right in the pic below is Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Kate McKinnon. And below, the updated (but still wonderfully old) ECTO-1.
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— Paul Feig (@paulfeig) July 8, 2015
In the new Ghostbusters reboot, Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy play Erin Gilbert and Abby Bergman, “a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real.”
“Flash forward a few years and Wiig lands a prestigious teaching position at Columbia U. (Like the original, the story takes place in New York City, even though it’s being shot in Boston.) Which is pretty sweet, until her book resurfaces and she is laughed out of academia. Wiig reunites with McCarthy and the other two proton pack-packing phantom wranglers, and she gets some sweet revenge when ghosts invade Manhattan and she and her team have to save the world.” (Source: Slash Film)
McKinnon will be playing Jillian Holtzmann, Bergman’s new partner. Leslie Jones will play Patty Tolan, an New York City subway worker who stumbles across the main supernatural threat in the film, and Chris Hemsworth is Kevin, the Ghostbusters’ receptionist.
The Wrap reports Williams, a fan favorite from The Wire and Boardwalk Empire, will play a character named Hawkins, and Matt Walsh, who is so great as Mike McLintock on Veep, will play a character named Rourke. Garcia is said to be playing a “powerful politician,” possibly the film’s “human” antagonist.
Ghostbusters arrvies in theaters on July 22, 2016.
