“…if enough fans show their interest in the film’s Blu-Ray and DVD release (available now), then perhaps the studio can ‘justify the amount of money it takes to make a movie like this’ and consider a follow-up film to be a real possibility”
I’m Holtzmanning pretty much as hard as I can here.
Before we even finished writing it I read some interview
where Kate McKinnon had said one of her dreams was to be a Ghostbuster, and I love
Kate so much and I know her from SNL and I was like – Kate could be perfect for this. And I met with
her, had her come in and when she walked out of the room after our meeting I was like
– OK, she’s gonna be a Ghostbuster. – Paul Feig on Kate McKinnon
This was actually a lovely (now somewhat poignant) interview with Feig. He talks at length about Kate in particular – about casting her, and about their process of creating Holtzmann together. There’s a lot more in the video than made this gifset. Props to both of them for trusting each other creatively.
So I don’t THINK I’m about to turn my old Tumblr into a “Ghostbusters”/Holtzmann fan blog (though I JUST MIGHT, I’ve seen the movie three times and it’s getting pretty serious), but I have to talk about this one thing.
That moment when Holtz announces “I want to make a toast” and stands up, she has this bright, nervous, painfully vulnerable smile on her face, like she’s Feeling Things that are too big to hide by being weird and that scares the shit out of her, and admitting those feelings to her friends when they’re all expecting her to just be weird again is one of the bravest things she’s ever had to do, not excluding the fact that she’s been fighting a literal army of the undead for like a week.