Recent years have seen a resurgence of the Ghostbusters franchise with two exciting films coming in 2021, Afterlife and Frozen Empire in 2024, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to slow down anytime soon. An explanation of why this is the new animated movie. series Ghostbusters, which will join the ranks of Netflix’s most productive screens sooner rather than later.
Several decades after The Real Ghostbusters became a staple of Saturday morning cartoons, we’ll soon return to an animated New York City edition and see the intrepid ghost hunters take on all kinds of spirits, demonic forces and otherworldly creatures. , as if it were 1984. Once again.
If this is the first time you’re hearing about the upcoming Netflix show, don’t worry, because we’re about to break down everything we know about this exciting project.
As much as we’d love to see a new, improved, animated Ecto-1 rolling through the streets of the Big Apple and catching all sorts of wayward spirits in the 2024 TV lineup, Netflix has yet to announce a release date for Ghostbuster. series. We know more about this and the release date in the coming weeks and months, so be sure to check back to find out when you can call in the Ghostbusters.
It is unclear who will form the cast of the Ghostbusters animated series, as Netflix has yet to reveal information about which characters will appear in the series. It’s entirely possible that all of the surviving members of the original Ghostbusters cast will voice their respective characters, as Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson all had significant roles in the two most recent films.
The series can also take a page from the ebook of series like Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous and Fast.
Will the Ghostbusters animated series take place after the events at the end of Frozen Empire?Will this take a position before the cinema? Or will it simply be a new story set in the universe?The fact is that we don’t know yet because nothing has been revealed about the plot yet.
However, offering an update on the project and how Netflix greenlit it in August 2024, Variety reported that anonymous sources said that the 3D animated series would be completely in line with the two most popular Ghostbusters movies. recent. This information, which has been shown via Netflix at this time, may mean that we see Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) and Trevor Spengler (Finn Wolfhard) return in some capacity. If so, this may simply be a story where they expand on Ghostbusters even further or go back to basics.
With Wolfhard working with Netflix for the upcoming fifth season of Stranger Things, it would make sense for the young actor and his character to appear in some capacity.
In the same Variety article reporting on the green light for the Ghostbusters animated series, it also revealed that Elliott Kalan would write the series and be one of its executive producers. Kalan, a four-time Primetime Emmy Award winner while running the writing team for The Daily Show, later joined the writing team for the Netflix Theatre 3000 revival series Mystery Science, so his work with streaming is nothing new.
Kalan may not be alone in the new animated edition of Ghostbusters, as Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan, who directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Frozen Empire, respectively, as well as writing both films together, will also serve as executive producers through Ghost Corps. , Outfit inc. However, it’s unclear who will be directing the series, so we’ll have to wait and see.
Although it turns out that the animated series is just starting to gain momentum, it has been in the works for a few years now and Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman have been involved in this process. In June 2022, just a few months later. Afterlife breathed new life into the franchise, Netflix Tudum announced that a series was in the works on the streamer, but didn’t provide much data at the time.
Things are said to have been quiet for a few years, which is understandable thanks to the team running Frozen Empire. That replaced in March 2024, when Kenan was selling his new directorial work with an appearance on A Trip to the Movies, where he said the following after being asked to update his status:
Again, those comments are from March 2024, which means Kenan, Reitman, and Elliott Kalan may be much further along now that everything is over with Frozen Empire.
When this anime series airs at some point, it will be the third anime in the franchise.
It all started in 1986 with The Real Ghostbusters, which we consider to be one of the most productive animated series of all time. The series aired on ABC and in syndication from 1986 to 1991 and focused on the main organization of films, although all were voiced through other actors. The display was a great luck and introduced countless toys, games, and other bureaucratic products, such as a glow-in-the-dark pillowcase, that some of us would or wouldn’t possibly own.
A little over 10 years later, Extreme Ghostbusters premiered in distribution, but it didn’t last as long and went on hiatus after just one season, while its predecessor had seven.
There’s been a more recent attempt to adapt the franchise into an animated series, but there’s been no word on the task in years. In 2016, IndieWire reported that Sony Pictures Animation was working on a series that would have been called Ghostbusters: Ecto Force. and would have followed an organization of futuristic ghost hunters as they traveled the world in the near future. The show reportedly aired in early 2018, but nothing materialized.
Expect to hear more about the Ghostbusters animated series in the coming months. If you want to watch Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, you can do so right now with a Netflix subscription.
Philip grew up in Louisiana (not New Orleans) before moving to St. John’s. Louis after graduating from Louisiana State University in Shreveport. When he’s not writing about film or television, Philip can be found being chased by his three children, telling his dogs to stop barking at the mailman, or talking about professional wrestling with his spouse. Writing contracts with school newspapers, various journals, and other professional reports has brought him to this point where he can write about movies, shows, wrestling, and documentaries (which is a huge win for his eyes). If the stars align correctly, he’ll say For the Love of the Game is the most productive baseball movie of all time.
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