Headed up by Jason Reitman and Dan Aykroyd, the production company Ghost Corps exists solely to create a Ghostbusters cinematic universe and continue expanding the Ghostbusters brand into films, television series, and merchandise. They have brought us the movies Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and now they’re working with the Netflix streaming service to develop both an animated film and an animated series. Now, a pair of images from the animated series Ghostbusters: Night Shift have dropped online (you can check them out at the bottom of this article), along with a logline that reveals the show picks up five years after the events of Ghostbusters II (which would be ten years after the events of the first movie).
What do we know about Ghostbusters: Night Shift?
Ben Hibon and Elliott Kalan serve as showrunners on the series, which is being executive produced by Dan Aykroyd, Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan, and Amie Karp. Hibon and Kalan are also executive producers. It’s coming our way from Netflix, Ghost Corps, and Sony Pictures Animation.
Sources have said that “the 3D animated series will be tonally in line with the recent Ghostbusters films.” 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.
The subject matter has inspired the logo designer to give the classic “No Ghosts” logo a bit of a monstrous makeover.
What is the history of Ghostbusters franchise?
The Ghostbusters franchise began with the 1984 supernatural comedy Ghostbusters, directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson. The film became a global hit and launched one of Hollywood’s most enduring multimedia franchises.
Beyond its feature films, Ghostbusters expanded into television with the animated series The Real Ghostbusters (1986–1991), which continued the adventures of the original team and became a major success. The franchise later returned to animation with Extreme Ghostbusters (1997), a sequel series that introduced a new generation of paranormal investigators mentored by Egon Spengler. Both shows helped keep the brand alive between film installments and introduced the Ghostbusters to new audiences.
The series returned to theaters with Ghostbusters II in 1989, followed by the 2016 reboot Ghostbusters. The original continuity was revived with Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), which brought together legacy characters and a new generation of heroes. Across more than forty years, Ghostbusters has remained one of popular culture’s most recognizable supernatural comedy franchises, spanning films, television, comic books, video games, and merchandise.
Ghostbusters: Night Shift will be the first animated series extension of the franchise in thirty years. Are you looking forward to this Netflix show? Take a look at the images, then let us know by leaving a comment below.
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