It’s Official: Paul Feig Will Direct Complete Reboot of ‘Ghostbusters’ with All-Female Cast

At long last, we know the fate of Ghostbusters 3: it's not gonna happen. Not technically, anyway. Sony is still making a new Ghostbusters picture, but it's going to be a complete reboot with an all-female cast.

This "all-female cast" thing had been rumored for a while, of course, and even comedic genius/urban legend Bill Murray weighed in with suggestions for said cast. However, what we didn't know was whether the new female Ghostbusters would simply be taking up the Ghostbusting mantle from the old male Ghostbusters, or whether it would be a complete reinvention.

The initial announcement came on Twitter from Feig himself:

He then explained his thinking in greater detail to EW:

I said, yeah, it's really hard to take that on, especially since it's 25 years later. How do you come back into a world that's had these ghosts and all this? It just felt too difficult. How do you do it and not screw it up? But then it was bugging me for the next few days because Ghostbusters is such a great thing and everybody knows it, and it's such a great world. It's a shame to just let this thing sit there. I want to see another one. My favorite thing to do is work with funny women. I was like, what if it was an all female cast? If they were all women? Suddenly, my mind kind of exploded: that would be really fun. And then I thought, well, what if we just make it new? It's not coming into the world that existed before. It's always hard if the world has gone through this big ghost attack, how do you do it again? I wanted to come into our world where there's talk of ghosts but they're not really credible, and so what would happen in our world if this happened today?

This really makes all kinds of sense. After working for years in television, directing episodes for such shows as Arrested Development, Nurse Jackie, and The Office, Feig hit it BIG on the silver screen with Bridesmaids and The Heat. There's no one better to execute this concept of an all-female Ghostbusters reboot than Feig.

The only question now is...who you gonna cast?