It is Ghostbusters Day, and Netflix lastly gave the general public its first have a look at the upcoming Ghostbusters animated collection to have fun. It is formally titled Ghostbusters: Night time Shift, and can come to the streaming service subsequent yr. Ghostbusters: Night time Shift comes from Sony Footage Animation (KPop Demon Hunters, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and can debut solely on Netflix in 2027. The brand new animated collection “marks the following chapter within the franchise’s ghoul-catching legacy, bringing supernatural comedy and paranormal motion again to animation,” Netflix mentioned in an announcement. Particulars on the collection are scant, however Ghostbusters: Night time Shift shall be government produced by Ben Hibon, Elliott Kalan, Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan, Amie Karp, and Dan Aykroyd. Reitman and Kenan co-wrote Sony’s most up-to-date live-action entries within the 42-year-old Ghostbusters franchise, Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Netflix launched a bit of key artwork for its new present, a stylized model of the traditional Ghostbusters emblem, hinting that the feel-good ghost-bustin’ could embody contending with extra than simply spirits from the immaterial world.
Ghostbusters is a long-running supernatural comedy movie franchise, and has flirted with animation earlier than. The Actual Ghostbusters is the most effective remembered present, because it ran for seven seasons and felt like a continuation of the films, with many returning characters and ghosts. In 1997, a special animated collection referred to as Excessive Ghostbusters aired, nevertheless it principally adopted new characters and had an edgier look and tone becoming for a present from the ’90s.
Netflix’s Ghostbusters animated collection is the primary new one since Excessive Ghostbusters. It has been within the works for a number of years, and Dan Aykroyd is concerned with the venture as an government producer. Particulars had been in any other case scarce till Netflix’s reveal as we speak, with the final high-profile Ghostbusters venture being 2024’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which was met with blended reception.
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