Curious About Netflix and Sony Teaming Up on A New Ghostbusters Animated Movie? Here’s What We Know
The Ghostbusters franchise is alive and well, even if Sony’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire wasn’t as big a hit as they had hoped last year ($200M globally).
Not only is Netflix working on an animated series, but Sony and Netflix are teaming up on an animated Ghostbusters movie.
Kris Pearn (Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2) was attached to direct back in 2024, and now, Jeff Snieder is reporting that Dollface and Tosh.0 writer Sam Jarvis is currently penning a new draft.
Pearn is still attached to direct, and new info reveals that this film will be a wholly new entry in the franchise.
When announced, Deadline explained, “Not only does the project mean to expand on the Ghostbusters universe, sources close to the development of this film see this as something that could do for the IP what the Beyond the Spider-Verse films have done for Spider-Man.”
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.
Interest in the original 1980s animated series has grown sharply since 2023, when views of the animated intro scene more than doubled.
Originally published on the Ghostbusters YouTube channel in 2021, the video has exploded from around 250k views in August 2023 to nearly 1 million views by the end of 2024. The clip currently sits just shy of 1 million views at 865,631.
Extreme Ghostbusters has seen a similar spike in interest recently, with similar videos nearly doubling their views over the last year, including one that has been online for nearly 10 years from Ghostbusters.net.
While interest in a potential new animated Ghostbusters series or movie is definitely strong among fans, some have pointed out that this animated film has been in the works for quite some time.
Though many others have set their proton packs on the fact that the new series and the animated movie have an interesting common dominator in that both Jarvis and Kalan have similar comedic backgrounds working heavily in pop culture satire on shows like The Daily Show and Tosh.0. Experiences, which some fans feel may steer the tone and humor of these projects closer in alignment with the original film.
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