Who you gonna name? To Dan Aykroyd, any of the Ghostbusters are simply high-quality.
Speaking to PEOPLE lately about his new Audible Original, Blues Brothers: The Arc of Gratitude, the unique Ghostbuster (who penned the 1984 script) spoke to the franchise’s endurance, including that his half as Ray Stantz is the one he is most frequently acknowledged for.
“These are films that you just need to watch once more, you need to see them once more,” he shares. “I believe that is neat to make stuff that endures, that individuals need to watch as soon as, twice, thrice.”
To him, that features 2016’s all-female reboot of Ghostbusters, which confronted sexist criticism from some followers when it debuted. (All the film’s stars spoke out in regards to the hate, with Leslie Jones writing in her memoir that she “received taken via the ringer” throughout that point.)
“I preferred the film [director] Paul Feig made with these spectacular girls,” Aykroyd, 72, says. “I used to be mad at them on the time as a result of I used to be speculated to be a producer on there and I did not do my job and I did not argue about prices. And it cost perhaps more than it should, they usually all do. All these films do.”
“However boy, I preferred that movie,” he continues. “I believed that the villain on the finish was nice. I cherished a lot of it. And naturally, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones and Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig, you are by no means going to do higher than that. So I’m going on the report as saying I am so proud to have been capable of license that film and have a hand and have a component in it, and I am absolutely supportive of it, and I do not besmirch it in any respect. I believe it really works actually nice amongst all those which were made.”
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Aykroyd’s Ghostbusters costar Ernie Hudson commented on the movie earlier this 12 months, celebrating Feig and the film’s stars whereas questioning the plot.
“Look, I’m a fan of Paul Feig so I’ve nothing damaging about him to say. Apart from: I don’t fairly perceive why you do a reboot, you already know what I imply? Simply make one other film,” he informed The Unbiased.
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“Followers have been actually invested within the story and the characters, and I believe it was disappointing,” he continued. “I loved the film, however I believe it wasn’t what followers have been hoping for.”
Each males — together with costar Invoice Murray — have remained lively members of the Ghostbusters universe because the 1984 movie debuted, returning for 1989’s Ghostbusters II, making cameos within the 2016 movie and taking part in components in 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife and 2024’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. (Costar Harold Ramis, the fourth of the unique Ghostbusters, died in 2014.)
“I nonetheless have these two very lively places of work to handle, Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters,” Aykrold tells PEOPLE. “I although I might retire 5 years in the past, nevertheless it hasn’t labored out that method. That is okay. I am grateful for the privilege to maintain going.”
