Why Did The Ghostbusters Remake Flop?

Ghostbusters director Paul Feig laments the fact that his reboot wasn’t as successful as it could’ve been. When it was first announced, the 2016 reboot was praised by some people for its gender-swapping of the main roles. However, a vocal minority of the original movies’ fans were up-in-arms over the reboot, so much that they launched an impressive campaign to make the film’s first trailer the most disliked movie trailer in YouTube history. The Ghostbusters reboot starred Melissa McCarthy as Dr.