Netflix’s Animated ‘Ghostbusters’ Film Exhibits Indicators of Life

You would possibly’ve forgotten Sony and Netflix are teaming to bring Ghostbusters to animation, however they’re, and their animated film is lastly making some progress.

A current report from Jeff Sneider reveals the untitled film has not too long ago bagged a author in Dolface author Sam Jarvis. She’s the most recent author to hitch the mission after Yoni Brenner and Kristy Corridor, who wrote earlier drafts of the script. In keeping with Sneider, the movie’s directed by Kris Pearn (The Tiger’s Apprentice) and will likely be an entirely new entry within the franchise.

Sony first introduced its plans to make an animated Ghostbusters film back in 2016 with the preliminary premise of telling a movie from the ghosts’ perspective. It’s presently unclear if this film will nonetheless go that route, however the studio’s been making an attempt to make new cartoons out of the property for some time now: a Netflix series was introduced again in 2022 with little drops of data within the years since, such because it being in CG and animated by Legend of Aang studio Flying Bark. At time of writing, it’s additionally a query mark whether or not this animated film and present will join in any means.

And what concerning the subsequent live-action film after Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire? One may be in the works at time of writing, so in the event you’re a fan, it sounds such as you’ve obtained a great quantity to stay up for within the close to future…which can all find yourself on Netflix ultimately because it and Sony are tight like that.

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