https://youtube.com/watch?v=gartMjonTXcNo, del Taro didn't make this one, the same screenwriter of GhostBusters 2016 did.
I know people write and make things that aren't seen or produced, but it is interesting looking at the IMDB for this one.
The writer is
Katie Dippold.
Worked in TV on MAD TV and Parks and Recreation. Ok, but team effort shows.
Films.
The Heat
Ghostbusters
Snatched
Not the best track record. Seemed to be diminishing returns on reaction and success. Did she literally get the job because of ghosts in one of her films? A film that utterly failed to relaunch the franchise.
The director is
Justin Simien
He's the guy behind Dear White People. The film which was low-budge and didn't get a wide release. It has mainly positive reviews but you can never really tell with a film like this. The excerpts on Rotten Tomatoes seem to be more about the message, often criticising the execution of the film.
He also did a direct-to-streaming race-based satirical comedy horror called Bad Hair. The response is average. Rotten tomatoes consensus is "
Bad Hair's unwieldy ambitions are easy to respect – even if the film's tonal jumble and uneven execution are impossible to ignore."
So the trend here seems to be that he's not a particularly good writer and executing his ideas.
He's just directing here, not writing like his other projects.
So you have the writer of a failed IP launch, that played identity politics and relied on improv for comedy, but had ghosts. With a director who has done race-based stuff, that had messy execution but one was a horror comedy about a women who gets a possed weave.
So the trailer isn't funny, isn't scary and mainly full of black people. Looks like exactly what you would expect.
