Sony released the very first trailer for their upcoming Ghostbusters reboot today. Check it out below!

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We were among the press and cosplaying Ghostbusters fans invited to an event at Sony Pictures on Wednesday to screen the trailer and then chat with director Paul Feig, screenwriter Katie Dippold, and producer (and original Ghostbusters director) Ivan Reitman about making the film.The supernatural action-comedy is not tied to the world of the first two movies. This Ghostbusters is set in a world where spooks and specters or the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man never terrorized Manhattan.As Dippold explained, "One other reason to do it this way is today’s scientists don’t believe in the paranormal anymore. And so to say ghosts have existed for the past 30 years, it’s just a new world. In the original it’s so fun when the ghosts are unleashed on the city for the first time. It’s just such a fun thing. You don’t want to skip over it."Feig added, "We liked the idea that in today’s world there are all these ghost shows, Ghost Hunters and such, and you’re like, ‘Are they crazy?’ And so in our world today if a ghost appeared that would be a phenomenal event. It would be less if it were like, ‘Oh, yeah, that happened awhile ago.’"As for the ghosts themselves, Feig said that while many types of apparitions will appear in the film, he "wanted to keep them basically humanoid. ... I don’t want my actors acting with tennis balls as they do so with so many of these CGI movies." Feig had the performers cast as the ghosts wear LED suits and suspended on wires when acting opposite leads Kristen Wiig (Erin), Melissa McCarthy (Abby), Kate McKinnon (Holtzmann), and Leslie Jones (Patty)."We’re playing with a ghost imagery that I don’t really think has been done before and it’s really scientifically based – (laughs) I mean, the science of ghosts?! – but just the idea of how the auras are coming off them, the particulates that are coming off them and how much they’re absorbing in air and in the real world," said Feig. "We play with that a lot but you’re going to see all types of ghosts in it. It was really important to me to have that real ghost quality to it."And what of Easter eggs and cameos of ghosts from the original movies? (The iconic Slimer makes a brief appearance in the trailer.) "You know the iconography. You know the things you love the most," teased Feig. "Let’s just say most of them show up in one way or another, but hopefully in a way that would be surprising and not that you were expecting."Producer Reitman commended Feig on his casting choices and spoke of how the new group's chemistry brought back memories for him:"People love the original quartet and it’s very tough to come up with that kind of combination. The most amazing thing for me was when I stepped onto the set and saw the four of them walk out. I’ve often talked about the moment I saw the original Ghostbusters walk down Madison Ave. the first time, the first day of shooting, and there was this little tingle in my back of, ‘Oh, this is special.’ There’s just something about the iconography of it. And I really honestly got the same feeling when I saw these four women ... There’s really something unique about these four together. I think Paul did an extraordinary job of putting this group together. You can see it in just two and a half minutes [of the trailer] that there’s something really startling about those four together."The fact that all four actors had worked with each other previously on Saturday Night Light or in movies helped with nailing the team's chemistry. Feig said that picking the right four actors for the film was a two-month decision-making process. "We didn’t write this with any actors in mind. We just wanted to get these characters right," said Feig. "And Melissa was never a shoo-in. It was not. I just had to get four distinct personalities for this."He added, "In the movie, Kristen and Melissa’s characters are old friends and then Kate and Leslie come to the team new and so it was actually fun that dynamic even though they’d all worked together before. Kristen and Melissa are very close and so Kate and Leslie were a new energy for them and so the actual dynamics in the script are portrayed in real life onscreen."Ghostbusters hits theaters in July.