Melissa McCarthy has reacted to the negative press surrounding the Ghostbusters reboot.

McCarthy spoke with Yahoo about the 2016 picture “Ghostbusters” and how poorly it was received. For those who don’t recall, the negative buzz surrounding the film began with a previously unheard of negative response to the first trailer on YouTube, followed by what seemed like an endless stream of vitriolic hate directed at everyone associated with the film, including racist and sexist comments.

“There’s no end to stories we can tell, and there’s so many reboots and relaunches and different interpretations, and to say any of them are wrong, I just don’t get it,” McCarthy explained.

“I don’t get the fight to see who can be the most negative and the most hate-filled. Everybody should be able to tell the story they want to tell. If you don’t want to see it, you don’t have to see it.”

Many criticized the picture for bringing four female stars to the franchise, and Jones received a lot of racial abuse as well. Following the response, she abandoned Twitter, requesting that Twitter intervene and halt the comments she was getting.

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“Twitter I understand you got free speech,” she wrote in 2016. “But there has to be some guidelines when you let [it] spread like that.” adding, “I feel like I’m in a personal hell. I didn’t do anything to deserve this. It’s just too much. It shouldn’t be like this. So hurt right now. I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart. All this ’cause I did a movie. You can hate the movie but the shit I got today… wrong.”

When compared to how the upcoming “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” is being received, the reaction to the 2016 revival is also interesting. Though the latter has yet to be released, there appears to be a lot of favorable hype about it, as it is a genuine sequel to the original franchise and is directed by Ivan Reitman’s son, Jason Reitman. Of course, we’ll have to wait and see how the “Ghostbusters” fans reacts if the picture is a flop. It may not be a pleasant sight.

McCarthy lauds The Starling director Ted Melfi’s commitment to understanding how and why the film’s parental roles could be reversed.

“This one was a wonderful switch,” she says. “This was Ted’s idea. He said when he read it, he was raised by a single mother, he was like, ‘I didn’t buy the woman falling apart. In his life, it’s always been the females that have kind of kept it together and kept trudging.

“I also think a man could be vulnerable and broken in a way that we’ve not traditionally seen.”

The Starling is now available to watch on Netflix. The new Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which is a continuation of the original film franchise and has no relation to the 2016 remake, will hit cinemas on November 19.