Sony and Netflix have unveiled the first look at their upcoming animated series, Ghostbusters: Night Shift, sharing a striking production still and a collection of new concept art.
In addition, Netflix gave Dread Central the official logline, which kicks the story back to the 1990s and officially follows the events in Ghostbusters 2:
“New York City, 1994 — Five years after the Ghostbusters took the Statue of Liberty for a walk, a new wave of supernatural terror hits the Big Apple, forcing a group of scrappy, young New Yorkers — untrained, underappreciated, and kinda sorta responsible for the problem — to put on proton packs, face their fears, and bust some ghosts.”
While no footage has been released, the initial logo reveal suggested a stylized animation approach that appears to share some DNA with Sony’s acclaimed Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse films. Given that the series is coming from a Sony-based animation pipeline, the comparison isn’t entirely surprising, but it does offer the clearest indication yet of the direction the studio may be taking with the franchise’s long-awaited animated return.
Dan Aykroyd is attached as an executive producer.
Early rumors suggest the 90s-set animated Ghostbusters series takes place during Walter Peck’s initial run for mayor.
Walter Peck, the bureaucratic antagonist from the original Ghostbusters, first appeared as an EPA inspector who clashed with the team and ordered the shutdown of their ghost containment unit, an action that inadvertently released the captured spirits.
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.
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