{"id":272677,"date":"2026-02-07T18:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/272677\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:21:07","slug":"netflixs-animated-ghostbusters-movie-shows-signs-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/272677\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix’s Animated ‘Ghostbusters’ Movie Shows Signs of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might\u2019ve forgotten Sony and Netflix are teaming to bring\u00a0Ghostbusters\u00a0to animation<\/a>, but they are, and their animated film<\/a> is finally making some progress.<\/p>\n

A recent report from Jeff Sneider<\/a> reveals the untitled movie has recently bagged a writer in\u00a0Dolface\u00a0writer Sam Jarvis. She\u2019s the latest writer to join the project after Yoni Brenner and Kristy Hall, who wrote earlier drafts of the script. According to Sneider, the film\u2019s directed by Kris Pearn (The Tiger\u2019s Apprentice) and will be a wholly new entry in the franchise.<\/p>\n

Sony first announced its plans to make an animated Ghostbusters\u00a0movie back in 2016<\/a> with the initial premise of telling a film from the ghosts\u2019 perspective<\/a>. It\u2019s currently unclear if this movie will still go that route, but the studio\u2019s been trying to make new cartoons out of the property for a while now: a Netflix series<\/a> was announced back in 2022 with little drops of information in the years since, such as it being in CG and animated by\u00a0Legend of Aang\u00a0studio Flying Bark<\/a>. At time of writing, it\u2019s also a question mark whether this animated movie and show will connect in any way.<\/p>\n

And what about the next live-action movie after\u00a0Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire<\/a>? One may also be in the works<\/a> at time of writing, so if you\u2019re a fan, it sounds like you\u2019ve got a good amount to look forward to in the near future\u2026which will all end up on Netflix sooner or later since it and Sony are tight like that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might\u2019ve forgotten Sony and Netflix are teaming to bring\u00a0Ghostbusters\u00a0to animation, but they are, and their animated film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[117861,1094,111,139,69,6361,145],"class_list":["post-272677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ghostbusters","tag-netflix","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sony","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}