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If it's a "Universe" they want then it means that the female one that's being made with it's crappy cast is going to be part of it.
Rather see this be the start of the universe and Paul Feig's version is stand alone.
I just don't see why they didn't just do this in the first place.
My problem is Drew Pearce, that guy had zero respect for the Iron Man comics when he did IM3, he was the one who brought up changing the Mandarins story.
I'm actually welcoming to the overall idea, it's just the way it's happening that makes me not like it.
Facing fact, Fiege's movie will probably suck. Him and a cast of one act wonders, whatever. The problem wasn't the female cast, it was the cast.
Yet Sony "fixes" it by giving us the best of both worlds and announces a male cast. The feminist world explodes with hypocrisy, whatever.
The idea of two films in a universe is cool. The idea of Ghostbusters can easily be expanded on, but if this is just a quick reaction to criticism and a quick idea, it won't work. First look at who's writing this one, the guy that pretty much took Iron Man, threw it on the ground, stomped on it, then lit it on fire. How will he create a universe? Dunno. On the flip side you have Fiege... I just won't go there.
Sony once again has a general idea of something rather neat, but is absolutely clueless on how to implement it and hired all the wrong people. Might as well announce Adam Sandler, Kevin James, and Eddie Murphy as the rest of the cast in "male" Ghostbusters now.