“I think that many of the people who were complaining were actually lovers of the [original] movie, not haters of women.”
Ghostbusters, which stars a new ghostbusting team of Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones, opens in UK cinemas on 11 July.
“I think there’s way too much talk about gender [when it comes to this film],” he told Mashable.
While many chalked up the fierce vitriol surrounding the new all-female Ghostbusters movie to sexism, Ivan Reitman, who is producing it and directed the original, believes it is simply down to annoyance with the franchise being rebooted at all.