Paul Feig, director of the 2016 Ghostbusters, recently sat down with Collider to chat about his work, revealing some interesting details on why the Ghostbusters reboot happened the way it did.

From Feig's telling of it, Sony Pictures was courting him for some time to direct a new Ghostbusters movie, and even had a script for a direct sequel to the originals. Feig didn't like the idea; with only two of the original cast members returning, he said it would have felt like "them handing off their legacy to somebody else."

It seems like Sony struggled to struggled to find a director interested in this sequel, with Sony Pictures' Amy Pascal asking Feig, "Why doesn't anybody want to do this?"