Dan Aykroyd: new Ghostbusters is funnier and scarier than normal films - The Guardian

'I'm paying to see that' ... Dan Aykroyd. graphic: Allstar/prevalent photographs/Sportsphoto Ltd

usual Ghostbuster Dan Aykroyd has claimed the controversial new Ghostbusters movie is funnier and scarier than the 1984 movie after viewing verify photos.

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Aykroyd performed Raymond Stantz within the first Ghostbusters and its 1989 sequel. He additionally came up with the common concept for the spooky saga, and co-wrote the screenplay for both previous motion pictures.

"As originator of the common: saw test screening of latest film," the Canadian actor wrote on facebook. "apart from superb, precise performances from the cast each female and male, it has greater laughs and greater scares than the primary 2 films plus invoice Murray is in it! As one of hundreds of thousands of man-fanatics and Ray Stantz, I'm paying to look that and bringing all my chums!"

Aykroyd has been a key supporter of the reboot, which sees Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon as the new quartet of ghost hunters. he is due to take a cameo within the new film alongside surviving fellow Ghostbusters Murray (the customary film's Peter Venkman) and Ernie Hudson (Winston Zeddemore).

Director Paul Feig has brushed aside controversy over the casting of four ladies within the lead roles as "vile, misogynistic shit", but an early trailer for the reboot grew to become probably the most disliked in YouTube heritage ultimate month.

advertising executives had been called out for curiously spiriting away the new female quartet from packaging for some merchandise tie-ins. And there become a separate row over the casting of the African American comic Jones as a supposedly stereotypical "street-wise New Yorker" in March.

Ghostbusters opens within the US and UK on 15 July.