Netflix knows who to call after the streaming success of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. It's been revealed that the animated series for the franchise planned at the streamer has just officially been greenlit.
Per Variety, an all-new animated Ghostbusters series is moving forward at Netflix. The project was first put into development back in June 2022, but it still had not yet been greenlit. While it remains unknown what the series will be about or which characters it will follow, it's said to be tonally similar to the more recent Ghostbusters movies, Afterlife and Frozen Empire. The Netflix show is also reportedly a 3D animated series, separating it from the classic 2D animation used for the original animated show for the franchise, The Real Ghostbusters.
Additionally, it's been revealed that Elliott Kalan (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Mystery Science Theater 3000) will serve as showrunner for the animated series, which hasn't yet had an official title announced. From Sony Pictures Animation, Netflix's Ghostbusters series will be executive produced by Ghost Corps, Inc.'s Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan. Reitman and Kenan co-wrote both of the two recent films, while the former directed Afterlife and the latter helmed Frozen Empire.
There Were Two Previous Animated Ghostbusters Shows
After the original Ghostbusters film became a hit, it was followed by The Real Ghostbusters, the animated series that aired from 1986 to 1991. Joined by their ghostly pal Slimer, the series followed the same main characters from the live-action film, but with different actors voicing the roles. In 1997, the show was given a sequel series that aired for a single season on ABC, picking up after the events of The Real Ghostbusters. That show saw Egon Spengler leading a team of college-aged recruits making up a new team of Ghostbusters.
The most recent film in the franchise, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, was released in theaters in March. Like Afterlife, it brought back several original movie stars like Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, and Annie Potts, though it mostly followed new cast members Mckenna Grace, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, and Paul Rudd. The movie grossed around $202 million in theaters with a budget of $100 million. In July, it was released on Netflix where it drew high viewership, ranking at No. 1 on the Global Top 10 charts.
"It was just very fun to be able to play Phoebe again -- to get to have another shot at playing Phoebe at a different point in her and my life, getting to play her older," Grace told CBR about reprising her Afterlife role in the movie. "I was a month into being 13 on the [ Ghostbusters: Afterlife ] set, and I turned 17 the day after we stopped shooting this one, so it was very different points in my life. It was very fun to have a bit more of an awareness of what we were creating, what we were doing, and who Phoebe was and who I was. Not that I have a remote idea of that. [Laughs.] But it was very fun to be able to kind of play with and figure out a very different point in all of our lives."
The new Ghostbusters animated series doesn't yet have a release date set by Netflix.
Source: Variety
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