You would have to read a lot of Sony emails (they're all on wikileaks, search terms like "ghostbusters," "feig," "ivan," "paul," etc) to put the whole puzzle together. Here are some easy, publicly-available mainstream articles in the biggest film trade of all that spell it out pretty well:
"But
Amy Pascal, who greenlit “Ghostbusters” before being pushed out as head of Sony Pictures, and who will earn her first producing credit on the movie, says he deserves that accolade. “He loves women,” she says. “That should make him the sexiest man alive, if any woman has any sense at all.”
It was Pascal who long pursued bringing “Ghostbusters” back to the bigscreen. She approached Feig early on, when she was still studio head. “I was courting him for like a year,” she says..."
"Initially, Feig wasn’t interested in a standard remake, saying, “I just couldn’t get my head around it.” But every day, he takes a four-mile walk to clear his head, and it was on one of these constitutionals that the idea hit him to reboot the film with women. “I know how to do that movie, and I know all these funny women,” he recalls thinking. Pascal loved the idea."
(Reference:
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/paul-feig-ghostbusters-women-spy-1201471590/ )
I put out a request for a link to the bit where she claims that he turned her down a few times due to lack of interest. I'll post it up when I've got it. But in any case, for once in this thread, read our actual words and note that our problem is with SONY HIRING FEIG when he puts "women" ahead of "Ghostbusters" on his priority list and not with Feig wanting to execute his vision once hired or make female-driven comedies. And in case it needs to be said - it shouldn't - that's a "Ghostbuster fan" perspective and not a "sexist" one. I'd be happy to see a good story about REAL ghostbusters of any gender made.
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