Netflix has formally given the greenlight to a brand new Ghostbusters animated collection, govt produced by Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan
Two years in the past, we heard that Ghostbusters: Afterlife author/director Jason Reitman and his co-writer Gil Kenan (who ended up directing Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) could be govt producing a brand new Ghostbusters animated collection for the Netflix streaming service. Now Selection has damaged the information that Netflix has formally given a greenlight to this collection, and Elliott Kalan has boarded the undertaking as author, showrunner, and govt producer. Kalan has beforehand labored as the top author on The Day by day Present with Jon Stewart, wrote for the Netflix revival of Thriller Science Theater 3000, co-hosts the podcast The Flop Home, and wrote the Marvel comedian guide collection Spider-Man and the X-Males.
Plot particulars are nonetheless beneath wraps, however Selection’s sources have informed them that “the 3D animated series will be tonally in line with the recent Ghostbusters films.” It’s additionally not clear which characters this present can be specializing in.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife starred Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, and Mckenna Grace as a household with single mother Callie and her two youngsters, Trevor and Phoebe, who transfer right into a beaten-down farmhouse in Oklahoma solely to find that there’s one thing unusual within the neighborhood. Unexplained quakes shake the city. There’s an previous mine close by that bears the identify of Ivo Shandor, who constructed the Manhattan high-rise within the 1984 movie that channeled the forces of evil. By the tip of that movie, the household had realized that Callie’s father was the late Ghostbuster Egon Spengler.
Callie, Trevor, and Phoebe, together with Paul Rudd as Callie’s love curiosity Gary Grooberson, had been Ghostbusters based mostly out of the workforce’s unique New York firehouse HQ in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. The Spengler household returns to the long-lasting New York Metropolis firehouse the place the unique Ghostbusters have taken ghost-busting to the subsequent degree. When the invention of an historic artifact unleashes an evil drive, Ghostbusters new and previous should unite to guard their house and save the world from a second ice age. Coon, Wolfhard, Grace, and Rudd starred in these movies with unique Ghostbusters stars Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Invoice Murray, and Annie Potts, together with fellow new additions Celeste O’Connor as Trevor’s good friend Fortunate and Logan Kim as Phoebe’s good friend Podcast.
This new Ghostbusters animated collection is coming our means from Sony Footage Animation, with, as talked about, Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan govt producing for Ghost Corps, Inc. Manufacturing on the collection can be dealt with by Netflix and Ghost Corps, Inc., which is predicated at Sony’s Columbia Footage.
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