{"id":417581,"date":"2026-04-30T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/417581\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T02:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:00:11","slug":"disney-sets-live-action-casper-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/417581\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ Sets Live-Action &#8220;Casper&#8221; Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/disney-sets-live-action-casper-series.jpg\" data-caption=\"Universal Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/disney-sets-live-action-casper-series.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"disney-sets-live-action-casper-series\"\/><\/a>Universal Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Disney+ has landed a new live-action TV series take on the \u201cCasper the Friendly Ghost\u201d IP.<\/p>\n<p>The Mouse House won a five-way bidding war for the title with \u201cGoosebumps\u201d executive producers Rob Letterman and Hilary Winston spearheading the project backed by Universal Studio Group\u2019s UCP.  <\/p>\n<p>Steven Spielberg, who executive-produced the prior 1995 film, is also on board as executive producer.<\/p>\n<p>Specifics of this take on the property are under wraps, but it is said to be a modern update on the classic ghost story and in the very early stages of development.<\/p>\n<p>It will also likely have a darker edge than the old films, something a bit more akin to Netflix\u2019s \u201cWednesday\u201d.  Letterman and Winston are writing, with Letterman set to direct.<\/p>\n<p>The likable translucent spectre featured in a string of animated movies between 1945 and 1959, became a comic staple, and then was revived with the 1995 live-action feature starring Christina Ricci.  A previous attempt to create a series took place back in 2022 but didn\u2019t move forward.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/casper-live-action-series-disney-plus-steven-spielberg-1236875295\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/desert-warrior-bombs-big-time-at-box-office\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDesert Warrior\u201d Bombs Big Time At Box-Office<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/the-devil-wears-prada-2-reviews-are-in\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d Reviews Are In<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Pictures Disney+ has landed a new live-action TV series take on the \u201cCasper the Friendly Ghost\u201d IP.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[63746,146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-417581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}