If they go the 3D CGI route, it’d be cool if they threw in some nods to the video game and its animation.
after 4 years thinking they are getting closer and closer…we find out they have a new writer. yikes.
It was only announced a little over a year ago.
The theatrical animated movie was re-announced almost 4 years ago.
I still don’t think they are the same movie.
Yikes indeed.
:sigh:
I appreciate that production gestation times have grown steadily from the '80s through the '90s to the 2020s (An American Tail and Beauty and the Beast took two years to make, Anastasia took three), and I appreciate that some things can’t be helped and are beyond a studio’s control… The lack of momentum on these projects feels at times to be killing the franchise… It’s not a great look that after four years of development, they’re starting over from scratch on the script for the animated film, and that’s on top of the Neflix animated series being four years into development with nothing yet to show for it (not even the concept artwork, that we know exists)… And it likely not to appear on small screens this year, and with the Dark Horse comic taking two years for it’s first issue to be released, and coming out after the movie it was supposed to bridge the gap for… And each of the comic series were only four issues long.
It’s extremely frustrating that the handful of new Ghostbusters media projects are either being released at a trickle, or they’re developing at a glacial pace.
I’m impatient for new content, I have to make my peace with that fact, and the fact that won’t change anything on the projects which are still in development… I just wish we’d had one of these projects sooner to occupy the gap created by the wait for the others.
The Wiki indicates it was announced in 2022 (or event 2015).
I’m happy to be corrected on this, but if it isn’t the same project, does it mean there’s been three separate animated feature film projects that have been announced since 2015?
I think you quoted me when I was editing.
When this Netflix animated movie was announced mid-December 2024 there was no indication in any articles this was the same long gestating theatrical animated movie that’s been worked on off and on since 2014/2015.
I do concede it lines up to be the same movie as the last info we got on the theatrical was in March 2023 but we just never got any verification they are one in the same.
I’d be less pessimistic if I knew that the animated series and the movie were of the same animation style/ or even done by the same studio. That I could excuse a three-to-four-year development process if they were using the same models etc., etc…
I would give Netflix a complete pass on just now finding a script writer knowing that each episode would have a different storyline or continuing theme. if we knew they had all their ducks in a row here. :sigh:
It’s the lack of proof of life that has me consistently on the fence. We were at the same cross roads with Ecto force. Not knowing shit until they just gave up. I’m not ■■■■■■■ on the project just to be an ass, but it is annoying that Ghostcorps or Netflix are keeping this so secretive.
I’d be fine with the waiting game if they said, hey the Phoebe trilogy finishes up in 2027 when she goes to college, the animated series and movie fill in the gaps in between! That’s not so much to ask for is it? Sorry, felt like I had to vent here.
Would be nice since the only content being made to fill gaps are comic books so far.
It also doesn’t help that we have a streamer in the mix, too. And streamers are secretive to begin with and don’t feel the need to give a lot of updates on a show during its production cycle. Some even wait until the month before a premiere to post a trailer. That could be Netflix keeping Sony from posting updates. But yeah, wish Ghost Corps would announce an annual update on their slate. Just a social media post is all we need.
I think the trauma of the Ghostbusters 3 wait makes us understandably skeptical about any project until the finished product arrives.
They’re hiring talented people, and hopefully the time taken is because they’re being careful to treat the IP right and sustain the future of the franchise. The natural suspicion given GB past and Netflix’s rep, is these projects end in development hell and never manifest themselves. It’s hard to say at this stage.
I’d prefer them to move away from the family dynamic, it’s been done now, it was fine for the course correction, but let’s get back to comedic relationships based on character traits rather than the familial dynamic which imposes responsibilities and restrictions on them. However maybe a series has space to explore and find fresh humour in this. Hard to know where an animated movie fits between the series and live action movies.
But yeah, until we see promo art and release dates, it’s understandable for fans to be nervous.
If it ends up being anything like Haunted Hotel lets cross the streams that it’s not going to be a carbon copy. I can already hear the Haunted Hotel fans screaming, "Ghostbusters ripped us off, " When there’s already so many easter eggs from Ghostbusters in that series. Lol. I’d rather see a soft reboot of Extreme Ghostbusters that includes Phoebe and podcast, and yes I’d like to see the college days rather than Highschool.
I don’t think there’d be much in the way of issues from Haunted Hotel fans… If there are complaints about the new animated series, I anticipate they’ll come from our own community.
The people suggesting that “Ghostbusters: The Netflix Animated Series is just a Haunted Hotel rip off!” are likely the same people who said “Afterlife/Frozen Empire is just Ghostbusters: Stranger Things!”
Re: my impatience:
Chicken, you might actually be spot-on with it being apprehension/trauma from years of GB3 rumours that went no-where.
Blade being cancelled by Marvel is the most shocking. They really can’t get a Blade script going!?! Just cancel a major character with a major actor in the lead? Damn.
With Ghostbusters it’s now in a I’ll believe it when I see it phase.
Yeah..2020-2022 GB felt back in full force. Toys on the shelves, a real GB3 out in theaters, a new video game, and other new projects on the horizon.
Everything they said that was gonna happened. Happened pretty soon after. But now.. it’s like..”so…where’s that new cartoon at?…”
I think the fate of the franchise rested on FE being a big hit. With afterlife being the big sleeper that reignited everything.
Eh, I don’t think the nail’s in the coffin just yet. I will agree that Ghostcorps needs to do something big and soon. FE was released in 24 so were due for something. I don’t think another Haslab will reignite the fanbase on a massive level. (I’d love to see another campaign, don’t get me wrong.)
Educated guesses - I think we’ll get another live action movie in 2029.
It wasn’t on their 2026 slate, so I think animated series in 2027-28 works with that timeframe. Maybe a promo art reveal on GB Day.
Rumored to be titled “Ecto” and from a ghost’s perspective (sound familiar?)
It does. I hope it isn’t that concept that leaked a while back. I would prefer a different story told through the ghost’s POV.
Yeah, those concepts done in 2016 with ghost Ghostbusters, hope not. But the ghost POV does track back to the animated theatrical movie they were trying to do since 2015-ish.
Like the defunct “Ecto Force” project, grounding the film’s focus on the ghost’s perspective is not appealing to me… 
Though I get it’s an effort to introduce fresh angles to the Ghostbusters universe, and to maybe provide a more human angle to things, like we saw with melody.
I think it’s an interesting idea. Hard to speculate what exactly it’s about. I’m more curious which Ghostbusters are in this story. Seems they really want 1 continuity across everything.
I seem to recall a quote from Jason at one point where he said the animated film would be “another team somewhere else.” But this was several years ago now. It seems like this film has been retooled a time or two since then.