New 'Ghostbusters' Trailer Offers More Chris Hemsworth
Last week the first trailer for the Ghostbusters reboot made its debut. Now we have another new sneak preview courtesy of the international trailer, which differs in a few noticeable ways from the first one. Watch it above.
For starters, there’s more Chris Hemsworth. Not enough to overshadow the female leads, but enough to suggest that Sony, the studio behind Paul Feig’s reimagined version of the 1984 comedy classic, wants to play up the fact that an internationally known member of the Avengers is in the movie.
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Less time is also spent introducing all four of the Ghostbusters. Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, more established movie stars than Saturday Night Live stand-outs Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones, get a little more face time.
There’s also a scene that didn’t appear in the initial clip: one where Jones, after landing with a thud during a failed attempt at crowd surfing, says: “I don’t know if it was a race thing or a lady thing, but I’m mad as hell.” (The filming of this scene was featured in Jones’ recent New Yorker profile if you want to read some of her alternate line improvs.)
Mad as hell is a good way to describe the reaction to Jones’s character based on the first trailer, in which the three white Ghostbusters are noted for their scientific expertise while all we know of Jones is that she works for New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. This new clip doesn’t make those distinctions quite so prominently.
As noted by Entertainment Weekly, all the fired-up social media responses to Trailer No. 1 made Jones contemplate exiting Twitter altogether. But Feig came to her defense and asked the haters to dial back on the outrage.
And haters, attack me all you want but when you attack and insult my cast, you’ve crossed the line. Grow up and leave my cast alone.
We’ll see whether the new trailer adds any more fuel to that fire, though it might be better to just reserve all judgment until seeing the actual movie, which comes out in July.
Watch the first trailer:
