Paul Feig also recalled Donald Trump's Instagram rant blasting the new version, which starred Leslie Jones and Melissa McCarthy.
” reboot, believes America’s divisive political climate is to blame for that film’s failure to catch on at the box office.last week, Feig recalled the criticism his gender-swapped version of the beloved franchise received even before it hit theaters.
“Some really brilliant author or researcher or sociologist needs to write a book about 2016 and how intertwined we were with Hillary [Clinton] and the anti-Hillary movement,” he said. “Everyone was at a boiling point. I don’t know if it was having an African American president for eight years that teed them up. They were just ready to explode.”
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