Well, here’s hoping Ghostbusters comes up during today’s Tudum event.
Then on GB Day, Jason Reitman will be in NY. Maybe the show will get a mention.
Also noticed Netflix Animation will be at the Annecy Festival with panels on June 10 and 12. Maybe then, too, but that is more of an industry only event so details tend to be scant.
Which is superb to hear (I assume they used Seasons 1 and 2 as their inspiration). Well animated, with dark stories, but interjected with banter and a little humour to have a candle of light and hope.
I wouldn’t make that assumption, partly because I believe the Netflix series has pretty much started from scratch, rather than use the bones of Ecto Force for its foundation, and because there’s just so little information to form a conclusion on.
Bazay’s comment about it being a new take on Ghostbusters, one that hasn’t been seen before is intriguing… I hope it isn’t a similar concept as the cancelled ghost-as-Ghostbusters movie from a while back, as personally I didn’t find that remotely interesting… But we’ll see.
The talk of a gritty New York conjures visions of a depiction like some of the darker/more mature Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series…
Give them 6-12 months, if they’re only showing off concept art at Annecy then they don’t have any animated material to make a trailer yet.
I’m a tad concerned about this project. It just seems like the window to release a Ghostbusters cartoon was shortly after the release of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, or maybe Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. But to have it come out years after these films were released just seems too late to me. Maybe I’m wrong and it will be a big hit.
Yeah does feel like the ideal time to launch would be… asap if not already.
There was 27 months between the original Ghostbusters movie and Real Ghostbusters.
So we’d be looking at June ‘26 given a similar timeframe from Frozen Empire. But you have to think this has been bubbling away since Afterlife to some degree… then again better let them cook than rush it.
A pre-recorded message from the series’ executive producer and showrunner Ben Hibon was played:
Then concept art included: "We saw from the pictures that the series appears to be following four young protagonists (they were standing silhouetted with their backs facing towards the “camera” on a hill), with other snaps set indoors and outdoors in New York City, focusing on our heroes and monsters. One particular picture had one of the protagonists wading through a New York interior filled with boxes, with a proton pack on their back glowing. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse is clearing the blueprint for the animation style, which makes sense given the studio. "
