--- title: Ghostbusters: Chris Hemsworth Joins Paul Feig's Reboot description: Here's the role he'll play. canonical: https://time.com/3917237/chris-hemsworth-ghostbusters/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-11T00:17:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:06:38.709Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Chris Hemsworth Joins 'Ghostbusters' Reboot og:description: Here's the role he'll play og:url: https://time.com/3917237/chris-hemsworth-ghostbusters/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Chris Hemsworth Joins 'Ghostbusters' Reboot twitter:description: Here's the role he'll play twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Chris Hemsworth Joins Female-Led _Ghostbusters_ Reboot by [Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly Jun 11, 2015 12:17 AM CUT by [Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly Jun 11, 2015 12:17 AM CUT Paul Feig decided to disrupt Twitter by dropping this bombshell: Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth, is going to be in the director’s female-led reboot of _Ghostbusters_. Who will he be? Feig says he’ll be the ladies’ receptionist. > [](https://twitter.com/paulfeig/status/608780626595037184) Move aside, Annie Potts! Hemsworth is the latest addition in the gender-flipped reimagining that has the four titular spectre-fighters be women instead of dudes. The actor was just in _Avengers: Age of Ultron_ last May and will next be seen in the Ed Helms-starred _Vacation_ remake out July 29. Feig’s _Ghostbusters_, starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon, is slated to be released July 2016. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/10/chris-hemsworth-actor-joins-ghostbusters-directed-paul-feig "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com "undefined") _Read next:_ [_11 Movies Starring Women That Will Rival Summer Blockbusters_](http://time.com/3754359/summer-blockbusters-pitch-perfect-2-avengers/?iid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3917237/chris-hemsworth-ghostbusters/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3917237/chris-hemsworth-ghostbusters/"},"headline":"Chris Hemsworth Joins Female-Led Ghostbusters Reboot","datePublished":"2015-06-11T00:17:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:06:38.709Z","description":"Here's the role he'll play","url":"https://time.com/3917237/chris-hemsworth-ghostbusters/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3917237/chris-hemsworth-ghostbusters/","name":"Chris Hemsworth Joins Female-Led Ghostbusters Reboot"}}]}] ```