Netflix’s Animated ‘Ghostbusters’ Movie Shows Signs of Life

You might’ve forgotten Sony and Netflix are teaming to bring Ghostbusters to animation, but they are, and their animated film is finally making some progress.

A recent report from Jeff Sneider reveals the untitled movie has recently bagged a writer in Dolface writer Sam Jarvis. She’s the latest writer to join the project after Yoni Brenner and Kristy Hall, who wrote earlier drafts of the script. According to Sneider, the film’s directed by Kris Pearn (The Tiger’s Apprentice) and will be a wholly new entry in the franchise.

Sony first announced its plans to make an animated Ghostbusters movie back in 2016 with the initial premise of telling a film from the ghosts’ perspective. It’s currently unclear if this movie will still go that route, but the studio’s been trying to make new cartoons out of the property for a while now: a Netflix series was announced back in 2022 with little drops of information in the years since, such as it being in CG and animated by Legend of Aang studio Flying Bark. At time of writing, it’s also a question mark whether this animated movie and show will connect in any way.

And what about the next live-action movie after Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire? One may also be in the works at time of writing, so if you’re a fan, it sounds like you’ve got a good amount to look forward to in the near future…which will all end up on Netflix sooner or later since it and Sony are tight like that.

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