I hope you do not have an excessive amount of nostalgia for The Actual Ghostbusters, as Netflix’s newly greenlit animated Ghostbusters sequence most likely will not be very similar to it.
As reported by Selection, Netflix has lastly greenlit its Ghostbusters animated sequence that is been within the works since no less than 2022. In keeping with sources that spoke with Selection, Elliott Kalan has joined the venture as author and government producer. Kalan appears like a reasonably good match for a sequence like Ghostbusters, provided that he was the top author for the 2017 model of Thriller Science Theater 3000, and has beforehand written for numerous comics too – he is the man that wrote that often memed Spider-Man comedian the place there’s an anthropomorphic pterodactyl who may remedy most cancers, however simply needs to show folks into dinosaurs.
Particulars about this new animated Ghostbusters present are very slim, however these of you that cherished the ’80s basic The Actual Ghostbusters and its 2D animation is likely to be upset to listen to that this outing will likely be a 3D one. Selection additionally notes that sources say the present will likely be tonally in keeping with the more moderen Ghostbusters movies, so do not count on any of that basic SNL-cast humour.
Co-writers of the 2 newer Ghostbusters movies, Afterlife and Frozen Empire, Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan are additionally hooked up to the present as government producers, so it being nearer to those titles in tone is not notably stunning.
This animated sequence will really be the third the franchise has acquired, as a couple of years after The Actual Ghostbusters completed, Excessive Ghostbusters was launched, although this one did not do practically in addition to the unique. It was additionally the final entry within the franchise till the 2016 Ghostbuster reboot, which was clearly once more soft-rebooted in 2021 with Afterlife, a direct sequel to 1989’s Ghostbusters 2.
Afterlife did fairly nicely on the field workplace, taking house $204 on a $75 million funds, however this yr’s Frozen Empire did not do fairly as nicely, reaching a field workplace results of $202 million on a $100 million funds. We’ll should see if the Ghostbusters aren’t heading to the afterlife themselves earlier than this animated sequence releases.
