It’s a Ghostbusters kinda day, and this time we’re talking about Netflix‘s animated feature film, which has been in development […]
It’s a Ghostbusters kinda day, and this time we’re talking about Netflix‘s animated feature film, which has been in development over the past few years.
Set to be directed by Kris Pearn (Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2) from a screenplay by Elliott Kalan (MST3K, The Daily Show) and Sam Jarvis (Dollface and Tosh.0), the film will be a whole new entry in the franchise that expands on the Ghostbusters universe.
Jeff Sneider, who has been at the forefront of all the BTS news, reports that the feature film is expected to be called Ecto and told from the perspective of a ghost!
A fun bit of franchise trivia: early drafts of Ghostbusters 3 reportedly planned for Bill Murray’s Peter Venkman to appear as a ghost, and years later, the late Harold Ramis ultimately appeared as a supernatural Egon in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Doing a movie from the ghost’s perspective is truly interesting.
The later seasons of the OG The Real Ghostbusters are loosely relevant because they experimented with shifting focus away from the Ghostbusters and toward the ghosts themselves, particularly through Slimer.
For the animated series, Elliott Kalan (MST3K, The Daily Show) was announced as writer, showrunner, and executive producer.
Jason Reitman (Ghostbusters: Afterlife) will produce for Sony Pictures Animation.
The Ghostbusters franchise was already realized in animated form with The Real Ghostbusters in the 1980s and Extreme Ghostbusters in the 1990s.
