UPDATED: Paul Feig unveils updated Ghostbusters uniforms, proton pack
Ever since Paul Feig tweeted his announcement that the new team of Ghostbusters would be made up of people who are not men, it was as if the earth had been cleaved open and a formless horde of spectral energy was set loose. When Feig made it known that the team would consist of Melissa McCarthy and the SNL alums Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones, this ancient being gnashed its fangs and bellowed in fury, “THERE ARE NO FEMALE GHOSTBUSTERS. THERE IS ONLY ZUUL.” Presumably this demonic entity was prophesying the return of Gozer, or maybe it was saying that it’s okay for women to be in a Ghostbusters film, provided they play love interests, receptionists, or satanic hell dogs. And since that time, this writhing mass of primordial malice has been simmering in the darkness, waiting to feast on the next piece of evidence proving that Paul Feig will lay siege to our childhoods with his brazen hubris.
Perhaps sensing the restlessness of this oozing phantasmagorical energy, Feig tweeted a photo of the new Ghostbusters’ uniforms. As the angry spectre raced to catch a glimpse of these uniforms, it cackled in malicious delight. How would these unworthy replacements be dressed? Sun hats and frocks? Would the Ghostbusters shoulder patch be replaced with brooches? There’d definitely be heels, right?