Getty ImagesLook who Paul Feig called!
The director of the upcoming all-girl Ghostbusters reboot has lined up Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Saturday Night Live players Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, confirming the news by sharing pics of all four actress-comediennes on Twitter.
Of course, by all-girl cast, we mean that the four principal characters first played by the pretty perfect foursome of Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson in the 1984 original directed by Ivan Reitman will now be women.
The remake will of course be a reunion for Bridesmaids director Feig and stars McCarthy and Wiig...and maybe Murray, who has been historically adamant about not wanting to do a third Ghostbusters film, would now be willing to do a cameo? He did get half his dream cast!
Asked by Access Hollywood about the planned female-centric reboot back in September, Murray called it a "grand idea" and proceeded to suggest both McCarthy, his co-star in St. Vincent, and Wiig as potential paranormal activity investigator-eliminators.
"Melissa would be a spectacular Ghostbuster," he also told the Toronto Star. "And Kristen Wiig is funny—God, she's funny!"
The question on much of Twitter's mind at the moment—when a person with a concern can get a tweet in edgewise amidst all the rejoicing—is: Who is going to play Janine, the Ghostbusters' bespectacled, crushing-on-Egon secretary who likes to read and also plays raquetball originated by the spot-on Annie Potts?
It's got to be a guy, right? So far, Diablo Cody wins with her suggestion: