As part of Ghostbusters Day, Sony and Netflix officially revealed that the title for its animated series: Ghostbusters: Night Shift.
The announcement was accompanied by the first logo for the project, giving fans an early glimpse at the show’s visual identity.
While no footage has been released, the logo suggests 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.
Exact plot details are under wraps, but it was reported at the time that the 3D animated series would be tonally in line with the recent Ghostbusters films.
Early rumors suggest the animated Ghostbusters series is allegedly set in the ’90s, 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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