[mrmichaelt]

Here's the break down so far if anyone needs a recap:

June 8, 2022:
-Variety
-"Animated Series in the Works at Netflix" and Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan will be Executive Producers
-It is "in development" at Netflix
-Production will be handled by Netflix and Ghost Corps, Inc.
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/ghostb ... 235285985/

-@Ghostbusters Tweets
-"is teaming up with @Netflix to create the next generation of Ghostbusters. This series will navigate an unexplored era of the Ghostbusters Canon."
-A quote of Gil Kenan from GB Day, “Between gaming, comics, television, and movies, we are going to tell the untold history of Ghostbusters while reaching into the future with characters you haven’t met from places you haven’t gone.”
https://x.com/Ghostbusters/status/1534745775065821185
https://x.com/Ghostbusters/status/1534745896264470528

March 21, 2024
-At the 23:42-24:18 mark, Gil Kenan says, "I just watched an entire presentation for the show. I've seen the sets, the environments and I saw saw my first glimpse at a world of supernatural characters as realized by our brilliant creative team and so all I can say is the work is being done as we speak. It's in what we call full development. Scripts are being written. Art is being created and it's a great time to be a Ghosbuster."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Vh7kM2gpU

June 6, 2024
-Sony Pictures Animation tweets
-"There’s something strange in the neighborhood… Our supernatural comedy series, based on Ghostbusters, is coming soon to @Netflix . #NextOnNetflix"
https://x.com/SonyAnimation/status/1798822185349660697

-Tudum
- During Netflix's look at upcoming animation, the untitled series was listed in the Family Series section with a description of "Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation are developing an animated series based on the beloved Ghostbusters IP, which will be debuted exclusively on Netflix. The high-end series is part of the streamer's elevated family animation lineup, delivering irreverent supernatural comedy and thrilling visual spectacle."
https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/ ... vies-shows

Yesterday
-Variety
-Elliott Kalan boarded the project as writer, showrunner, and executive producer.
-It is a 3D animated series
-will be tonally in line with the recent Ghostbusters movies

If they were writing scripts in March, they could have already started voice recording or at the very least have started casting.

[timeware]

Good work on the timeline. I feel a bit easier about this project, but still i'd love to see anything from it. As these are two seperate projects is there any word if the movie will be released to theatres or are both projects just coming straight to Netflix? It would be kind of awesome to see a new GB film in less then a year.

[mrmichaelt]

is there any word if the movie will be released to theatres or are both projects just coming straight to Netflix? It would be kind of awesome to see a new GB film in less then a year.

No word yet on how the movie will release. Too early to say. Most likely a theatrical animated movie.

[mrmichaelt]

Minor bit but Sony Pictures Entertainment’s licensing VP Jamie Stevens mentions, "One of our most exciting ventures is our kids’ programming, punctuated by the upcoming second season return of the hit preschool series, ‘The Creature Cases,’ produced by Sony Pictures Television – Kids for Netflix, along with Season 2 of ‘Goosebumps’ on Disney+ and an upcoming ‘Ghostbusters’ animated series, which is being produced by Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix.”
https://www.licenseglobal.com/entertain ... r-everyone

[mrmichaelt]

Comment on the series from Gil Kenan, "And I've spoken recently about the fact that we are in very active development on our animated series that we're producing with Netflix. That is something that I'm actively involved with, Jason on a day-to-day basis right now, we are really excited about the stories that are starting to be told there, and the way that it intersects with the Ghostbusters stories that you and I love is going to be thrilling for our audiences."
https://thedirect.com/article/ghostbust ... -exclusive

[Mercifull]

It's cool that the new generation is going to get a nice animated series, but selfishly I was hoping for a more adult show similar to Lower Decks, even more so now that that's ending this year.

[timeware]

Based on those comments I have a feeling that it's going to be targeted towards the teenage audiance which means it might be the Ghostbusters in highscool/college, or take place between Afterlife and Frozen Empire. I'm betting it's going to be something like Camp Cretacious or Fast and Furious Spy Racers.

If they go the highschool/college route it's going to be interesting to see what the Ghostbusters call themselves and how they'll just throw in Winston as they only met him after starting Ghostbusters Inc. Still though, I'd like to some conept art. Anything at all to prove progress.

[Kingpin]

The Extreme team were fully enrolled at New York City College, and after the first episode it only cropped up occasionally when it served to provide an impediment (such as if one of the characters had to study for class), or for a joke at the expense of Eduardo's intellect.

I'd rather not waste time on high school/college scenes when I'd be watching the animated series for the ghosts and ghostbusting.

[timeware]

Wasn't Dan promoting a Ghostbusters High set in the 60's? I could see them even going the route of following Phoebe/Podcast in between Afterlife and Empire with a whole new group of friends at school. Wouldn't be much different from Troll Hunters.

[Kingpin]

He was, but I think a lot of people were understandably sceptical about the concept he was proposing.
The guys didn't have any equipment other than the PKE before the start of the first film, so a series set in the '60s would be pretty light on ghost-busting...

I just don't think the school/college setting is necessary to telling enjoyable Ghostbusters stories. The '80s and '90s cartoons showed you can get enough exposition and plot out of either the scenes set at the Firehouse, at the job locations, or at museums/halls of records etc.

[Rookie99]

It's cool that the new generation is going to get a nice animated series, but selfishly I was hoping for a more adult show similar to Lower Decks, even more so now that that's ending this year.

Trek has both Lower Decks and Prodigy, I don't see why Ghostbusters can't eventually have both as well. The all ages show can follow either the OGs or the new team, while the Lower Decks could be, I don't know, the Staten Island branch.

[mrmichaelt]

Based on those comments I have a feeling that it's going to be targeted towards the teenage audiance which means it might be the Ghostbusters in highscool/college, or take place between Afterlife and Frozen Empire. I'm betting it's going to be something like Camp Cretacious or Fast and Furious Spy Racers.

If they go the highschool/college route it's going to be interesting to see what the Ghostbusters call themselves and how they'll just throw in Winston as they only met him after starting Ghostbusters Inc. Still though, I'd like to some conept art. Anything at all to prove progress.

It has been said it's exploring a previously unexplored decade. 60-70s? Sure, but that's a limited concept. The trio has none of the famous equipment and such. Library ghost was the first ghost they encountered and that was in 1984. 90s would be intriguing but limited as we know how it ends for the Ghostbusters on a bitter note. 2030s to 2050s? It feels like they gotta be at least salvaging the earlier Ecto Force concept that got shelved about franchises in the future.

In addition to Camp Cretaceous and Spy Racers, there's also the Gremlins one. Season 2 (aka the Wild Batch) just premiered the first half on Max. Kids programming but they still got away with a lot of stuff i.e. killing people, taking limbs off people and expanding the lore, even revealing the origin story of the Mogwai.

[robbritton]

I don’t know if this has come up elsewhere, but a post today on the GBFans Facebook page by Jeff Scheetz of Monkey Chow Animation Studios shows an actor in a mo-cap suit with a proton pack and a patch on their shoulder. Could be something to do with the animated show, perhaps?

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/qeWdHJEFnSF1emRt/

https://motioncaptureorlando.com/?fbcli ... 7KmxdgDxcw

[timeware]

Could be for the video games. They've been fairly tight lipped about the animated series. Either ways possible I suppose.

[mrmichaelt]

I don’t know if this has come up elsewhere, but a post today on the GBFans Facebook page by Jeff Scheetz of Monkey Chow Animation Studios shows an actor in a mo-cap suit with a proton pack and a patch on their shoulder. Could be something to do with the animated show, perhaps?

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/qeWdHJEFnSF1emRt/

https://motioncaptureorlando.com/?fbcli ... 7KmxdgDxcw

Interesting. The latter link, they list some of their parnters and Netflix is one of them. I've noticed more and more anime productions do use mocap actors for actions scenes then animate from it. Even if it's a 2D production with minor 3D usage. Like Suicide Squad Isekai.

[JonXCTrack]

I would like to see a series set in the future using ideas from Dan Aykroyd's original pitch which was deemed "too big" to make in 1984. You could even have a episode where these future ghostbusters have to go back in time and they run into the original ghostbusters.

[mrmichaelt]

I would like to see a series set in the future using ideas from Dan Aykroyd's original pitch which was deemed "too big" to make in 1984.

Yeah, that was basically the premise of the shelved Ecto Force series. They still haven't said if this current show is the Ecto Force idea being revived or something else entirely.

[mrmichaelt]

Sony is looking to hire a CG Supervisor for the series.

https://ghostbustersnews.com/2025/04/05 ... upervisor/

https://x.com/SonyAnimRecruit/status/19 ... 6650786038

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonypi ... 6525879003

[timeware]

Release date 2099, just in time for the live action version of Spider-Man Across the Spider Verse. which only took 2 years to develop.

[mrmichaelt]

Release date 2099, just in time for the live action version of Spider-Man Across the Spider Verse. which only took 2 years to develop.

That was a movie crew and if what they went through was the same they did for the sequels.. that 2 years came from being overworked and abused.

[timeware]

Hopefully the spidey crew filed some lawsuits against Sony. Nice to see some news on the GB front. It just seems odd to me that they are now looking for a CG supervisor after all this time. Maybe we'll get some more news on Ghostbusters Day on the series actual progress, but I'm not holding my breath.

[mrmichaelt]

It's not a bad sign. All it really means is some prelim animation has come back to the crew and they're now in the phase of pre-production/early production where they need a supervisor to start making to calls on what VFX needs to be fixed or further explored, making sure the look is consistent, getting ready for FX and compositing, coordinating with others in the crew to bring it all together. It's just minor blip meaning things are moving forward in the right direction.

[d_osborn]

I'm hoping there's some massive article covering the development of a modern animated GB when the first Netflix GB thing hits. Ecto-Force was announced in 2016, so we're nearing ten years of material. From what it sounds like, it's been in constant development, in some form or another, the entire time.

Ecto-Force, the "ghost's perspective" project, the Mini-Pufts project, which might or might not be the Netflix Feature or the Netflix Series. There's no telling what else was cooking that isn't in the public sphere.

Development art would be so cool to see!

[Chicken, He Clucked]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the “ghost perspective” stuff became the Egon or Melody plot strands in Afterlife/FE.

[Kingpin]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the “ghost perspective” stuff became the Egon or Melody plot strands in Afterlife/FE.

That's if Jason and Gil were aware of that aspect of the now-defunct show. Just because it was an in-development Ghostbusters project before Afterlife doesn't mean it had any influence of the development of the recent movies.

[mrmichaelt]

Flying Bark Productions is working on the show.
https://x.com/flyingbark/status/1911539900136259901

Past work includes: Glitch Techs, Rise of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

[timeware]

And here's a showreel of their past work:

[zeta otaku]

I've seen clips of Glitch Techs and always felt a Ghostbusters show would do well in that style. I had NO IDEA they had a hand in Rise of the TMNT (some AMAZING action sequences in that show, but not for everyone) and Monkey Kid let alone episodes of Marvel's What If...?.

My concerns for the animation is lessened now as the action/busting scenes should be a treat to watch. Hopefully the writing staff is on point!

[Kingpin]

Flying Bark Productions is working on the show.
https://x.com/flyingbark/status/1911539900136259901

Past work includes: Glitch Techs, Rise of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

I had no idea Flying Bark was responsible for What If...?, Monkey Kid, or the 100% Wolf series... That gives me some confidence, however I really hope the writing team isn't the same crew as the ones who worked on Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as what I've seen of that show was extremely cringe.

As Zeta noted though, one of the animation company's strengths is dynamic/action animated sequences.

[mrmichaelt]

I had no idea Flying Bark was responsible for What If...?, Monkey Kid, or the 100% Wolf series... That gives me some confidence, however I really hope the writing team isn't the same crew as the ones who worked on Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as what I've seen of that show was extremely cringe.

As Zeta noted though, one of the animation company's strengths is dynamic/action animated sequences.

Just to clarify, Flying Bark was 1 of 4 or 5 animation studios that worked on season 1 to 3 of What If...?

It's also fitting an Australian studio is animating this series given the character-creature designer on Extreme Ghostbusters Fil Barlow is from Australia and the animation studio Adelaide was named after a city there I believe.