Netflix has figured out that there is room for it to be a major player in the field of animation, and they have taken advantage of it with impressive projects such as The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Nimona, Klaus, Stranger Things ’85, and something called KPop Demon Hunters. You might’ve heard of it. And coming to Netflix in 2027 is the anticipated series, Ghostbusters: Night Shift, which was unveiled at the Annecy Animation Film Festival.
Two first-look images were released for Sony Pictures Animation’s Ghostbusters: Night Shift, which takes place in 1994, five years after the events of Ghostbusters II.
Here’s the logline: “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.”
That’s right, the original crew of Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, and Egon Spengler have retired, with a bunch of young upstarts taking on the defense of New York from giant walking marshmallows and wayward Statues of Liberty.
Jason Reitman, son of Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, will exec-produce the series alongside frequent collaborator Gil Kenan. The series will have Ben Hibon and Elliott Kalan as showrunners, with Dan Akroyd aboard as a producer.
Reitman said the show will fill the gap between the two original Ghostbusters movies and the recent sequels.
“There’s an entire decade’s worth of ghostbusting that has never been told until now and we’re taking you back to the 1990s… look in your closet and fish out that CD Sony Walkman,” Reitman said. [Deadline]
