'Ghostbusters' Release Date & Plot: Female Ghostbusters Will Be An Origin Story, Says Director

A lot of people have held out hope that Paul Feig's rebooted all-female Ghostbusters will be a continuation to the original Ghostbusters film, but the director has finally set the record straight, saying that his upcoming movie will be the start of a new Ghostbusters franchise, and that it will be an origin story.

Feig told AlloCine in an interview that there will not be any threads linking his film to the original ones, and he looked at it with a fresh perspective, and he hopes the audiences will to.

"I thought I'd rather do it as a reboot, so I wasn't tied to the old movies. The old movies are so good, I didn't want to mess with them," he said. "I also want to see the beginnings of this group. I want to see people seeing ghosts for the first time, and how they are going to fight them for the first time, how they develop their technology."

Feig also revealed that he has been offered to take on Ghostbusters 3 "several times" already, but he kept turning it down because he did not know how to make an old-school Ghostbusters movie.

"It's really hard to take that on, especially since it's 25 years later," he said. "How do you come back into a world that's had these ghosts and all this? It just felt too difficult. How do you do it and not screw it up?"

But working with big names in comedy really excites Feig, and that is why he finally decided to take on the rebooted Ghostbusters film. He even thought that the new project would be a lot of "fun."

The film will star Bridesmaid actresses Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig, as well as Saturday Night Live regulars Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon. Feig earlier worked with McCarthy in the action comedy "Spy" with Jude Law, Jason Statham, and Rose Byrne.

Feig also said earlier that his movie will be "scarier" compared to the original films, and will take inspiration from the zombie television series "The Walking Dead."

"The reason I do a lot of R-rated comedies is that you want a movie to feel honest," explained Feig. "But the Ghostbusters world doesn't need that level of swearing. We'll have to be PG-13 with this one. I would like to make it R-rated, but I won't. You want the biggest number of people to watch it and not be put off by it."