Fresh off the success of the Melissa McCarthy/Jason Statham comedy Spy, director Paul Feig has teased the first look at the costumes from the forthcoming Ghostbusters reboot. The director tweeted a picture of the four suits lined up, with the surnames of the actors attached. The all-female led film stars previous Feig collaborators Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy along with Saturday Night Live stars Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.
While there are some definite changes from the iconic suits worn by Bill Murray and co. in the original cult favourite, this is, more or less, what we expected to see from their new outfits. They definitely stuck with the jumpsuit aesthetic, though the color is a little bit darker, more olive than the earlier beige/khaki ensembles and the cargo pockets on their pant legs are a bit different. Each member of the team will have a pair of sturdy boots–you definitely don’t want to lose your footing when you have an unlicensed nuclear accelerator strapped to your back. The most major difference, as you can plainly see, are the orange stripes on the sleeves, which, if we’re being honest, isn’t that huge an alteration. Even the logo on the shoulder looks the same as this film’s predecessor.
Filming for the new “Ghostbusters” has already begun, and while we’ve seen some on-set photos, this is the first look we’re getting at what the uniforms look like. The film centers at first on McCarthy and Wiig’s characters, authors of a book claiming ghosts are in fact real that find themselves laughing stocks in the academic community. They eventually meet up with McKinnon and Jones’ characters and set out to prove the existence of ghosts — presumably by ‘busting them.
#whatyougonnashoot pic.twitter.com/sGsYSgS1Io
— Paul Feig (@paulfeig) June 30, 2015
The director also tweeted an image of the Ghostbusters’ weapons in the upcoming movie, captioning it: “#whatyougonnashoot?”
Directed by Feig and starring McCarthy, Wiig, Jones, McKinnon and Christ Hemsworth, “Ghostbusters” arrives in theaters July 22, 2016.
