--- title: Film: Why Emma Stone Said 'No' to 'Ghostbusters' Reboot description: "I think maybe I need a minute before I dive back into that water" canonical: https://time.com/3924693/emma-stone-ghostbusters-reboot/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-17T17:35:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:58:52.552Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Why Emma Stone Said 'No' to 'Ghostbusters' Reboot og:description: "I think maybe I need a minute before I dive back into that water" og:url: https://time.com/3924693/emma-stone-ghostbusters-reboot/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf61b84e0830bf5a4/698854e3e53aba510e4de361/474905222-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=402&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 402 og:image:height: 226 og:image:alt: Emma Stone at the "Aloha" premiere in West Hollywood, Calif. on May 27, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Emma Stone Said 'No' to 'Ghostbusters' Reboot twitter:description: "I think maybe I need a minute before I dive back into that water" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf61b84e0830bf5a4/698854e3e53aba510e4de361/474905222-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=402&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why Emma Stone Said 'No' to _Ghostbusters_ Reboot > Sponsored content. 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Emma Stone at the "Aloha" premiere in West Hollywood, Calif. on May 27, 2015. Steve Granitz—Getty Images by [Devan Coggan/EW](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan/EW Jun 17, 2015 5:35 PM UTC Before the female cast of the new _Ghostbusters_ was announced, Emma Stone’s name was at the top of pretty much everyone’s dream cast list. Her _Zombieland_ costar Bill Murray even [suggested her](http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/tiff/2014/09/07/tiff%5Fbill%5Fmurray%5Fscares%5Fup%5Ffemale%5Fghostbusters%5Fcast%5Fsuggestions.html?app=noRedirect) as one of his ideal Ghostbusters. Now, Stone has revealed that she passed on a role in Paul Feig’s all-female reboot. “The script was really funny,” she [told _WSJ Magazine_](http://www.wsj.com/articles/emma-stone-talks-irrational-man-the-sony-hack-and-keeping-her-personal-life-private-1434547660?tesla=y). “It just didn’t feel like the right time for me. A franchise is a big commitment—it’s a whole _thing_. I think maybe I need a minute before I dive back into that water.” Even though Stone may have turned down the opportunity to join the Ghostbusters crew herself, she did say she’s taken a lot of advice to heart from Murray, a longtime friend and original Ghostbuster. “He told me to keep some things I love just for me,” Stone said. “The idea is to have some things that you don’t feel like you need to share with the world. To have some things that are only yours.” Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones are starring in the reboot, and Chris Hemsworth just [signed on as their receptionist](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/10/chris-hemsworth-ghostbusters). The new _Ghostbusters_ will be released in July of next year. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/17/emma-stone-passed-ghostbusters-reboot) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com)_._ ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Hi I'm Richard Corliss, Time Magazine movie critic, to show you my infallible or highly debatable selection of the movies of the millennium. [ MUSIC ] [ INAUDIBLE ] Stronger. In a way, these movies, made in the last 12 years, cover the whole history of movies. [ SOUND ] You'll also find a few films that look forward to the stories and techniques of the next hundred years. The fellowship awaits the ring bearer. [ MUSIC ] The Artist. It's a movie set in Hollywood's silent era and it's virtually wordless. Is that a gimmick? Nope. A sustained cinematic inspiration. Deserving of every prize it received, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. This tres French film was also the most classically American picture of its time. [ SOUND ] Found something. The Hurt Locker. US soldiers coming to Iraq knew what to expect: 130 degree heat. And streets full of men, women, and kids, [ CROSSTALK ] any one of whom could detonate a bomb that would blow Americans and Iraqis to bits. What's the best way to, to go about disarming one of these things? The [ INAUDIBLE ]. [ LAUGH ] That's a good one. Determined to get the facts straight, not to score political points. Kathryn Bigelow made an honest, searing war film that fully deserved its Oscar for Best Picture. It's just 39 days. 38 if we survive today. [ SOUND ] Avatar. James Cameron's science fiction 3D film does what fantasy is supposed to do. Create a total environmental experience. Viewers don't just visit the Pandora rainforest, like the movie's paraplegic hero Jake, they find their legs and quickly their home there. To become [ UNKNOWN ]. Hunter, you must choose you're own ikran, and he must choose you. [ NOISE ]. For a sensational, seductive movie immersion, Avatar has it all over Cameron's previous blockbuster. This film is truly titanic. [ SOUND ] The lord of the rings trilogy. Two forms are daring on display here, Peter Jackson's for synopsizing tokens novels into three spectacular three hour films. And the commercial daring of new lines cinema which financed a $ 300 million three part telling of the token saga. Before a single frame had been shot. Will you look into the mirror? What will I see? Even the wisest cannot tell, for the mirror shows many things. [ SOUND ] The movies of the past dozen years, will be remembered for their technical wizardry and digital sheen. Wall- E has all that. [ SOUND ] Plus a toy- meets- girl love story as pure as any in the cinema's first 100 years. This Pixar animated feature, designed as family entertainment, had a bold vision both in story and in sound. [ SOUND ] There's plenty of space out in space, female star liners leaving each day. We'll clean up the mess while you're away. And when Wall E meets his sleek robot Eve, they inhabit a sci fi cyborg romance for the ages. 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