The new Ghostbusters animated series is in development at Netflix and will be directed by Jason Reitman.
According to Variety, the project from Sony Pictures Animation will be executive produced by Reitman and Gil Kenan, the co-writers of the 2021 live-action feature Ghostbusters: Afterlife. However, the plot of the series is still kept under wraps. The project was announced on the third day of Netflix’s Geeked Week.
The series is part of the expanding Ghostbusters universe, which began with Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters in 1984.
The Ghostbusters film starred Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis as three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. The film was directed and produced by Ivan Reitman (Jason Reitman’s father), and written by Aykroyd and Ramis. It earned $282 million during its initial theatrical run, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 1984 in the U.S. and Canada, and went on to become the highest-grossing comedy ever.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) is a sequel to Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II and the fourth film in the Ghostbusters franchise. It starred Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, and Paul Rudd, and featured Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and Sigourney Weaver reprising their characters from the earlier films. The movie grossed $204 million worldwide.
The franchise is also getting two new virtual reality games in the near future.
