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

You may’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 latest report from Jeff Sneider reveals the untitled film has just lately bagged a author in Dolface author Sam Jarvis. She’s the most recent author to affix the undertaking after Yoni Brenner and Kristy Corridor, who wrote earlier drafts of the script. Based on Sneider, the movie’s directed by Kris Pearn (The Tiger’s Apprentice) and will probably 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 at present 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 manner.

And what in regards to the subsequent live-action film after Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire? One might also be in the works at time of writing, so should you’re a fan, it sounds such as you’ve bought an excellent quantity to look ahead to within the close to future…which is able to all find yourself on Netflix in the end because it and Sony are tight like that.

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