Netflix Greenlights New GHOSTBUSTERS Animated Series With Elliott Kalan as Showrunner
Netflix has given the greenlight to the animated Ghostbusters series which they first announced in 2022. The streamer has hired Elliott Kalan, writer on The Daily Show and Mystery Science Theatre 3000, as the show’s writer, showrunner, and executive producer.
The show was first reported to be in development at the streamer back in June 2022. Exact plot details are still under wraps, but sources say the 3D animated series will be tonally in line with the recent Ghostbusters films.
As previously reported, the series hails from Sony Pictures Animation, with Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan of Ghost Corps, Inc. onboard as executive producers.
Reitman and Kenan recently co-wrote the live-action features Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, with Reitman directing the former and Kenan directing the latter. Production on the series will be handled by Netflix and Ghost Corps, Inc., which is based at Sony’s Columbia Pictures.
This is now the third Ghostbusters animated series in franchise history. Previously, The Real Ghostbusters aired for 140 episodes, mostly on ABC and in syndication, from 1986-1991.
It continued the adventures of the characters from the original film. It was followed by Extreme Ghostbusters, which aired for 40 episodes in syndication. That show featured a mostly new lineup of characters, though the team was led by Egon Spengler.
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via: Variety