Netflix has unveiled a first look, logline and concept art for its highly anticipated Ghostbusters: Night Shift animated series at a Next on Netflix session at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
The reveal follows the unveiling of the official title and logo at a Ghostbusters tribute event in L.A. earlier this month.
Netflix also released a first logline, which reads: “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 presentation also showed concept art for the world of the New York-set show.
Slated for release in 2027, Ghostbusters: Night Shift revisits the universe first introduced in 1984 by Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters and continued with 1989 sequel Ghostbusters II as well as the animated series The Real Ghostbusters (1986-1991) and Extreme Ghostbusters (1997).
The new series is co-written by Ivan Reitman’s son Jason Reitman with longtime collaborator Gil Kenan. Reitman previously honored his father’s legacy with the 2021 comedy Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which followed in the wake of a string of award-winning directorial credits including Thank You For Not Smoking and Juno.
Reitman and Kenan, who also take EP credits, were due to take to the stage at Netflix’s Annecy presentation on Wednesday.
As announced last month, Dan Aykroyd, star and writer of the original 1984 film, is also on board as an executive producer, with alongside Ben Hibon, Elliott Kalan and Amie Karp.
The Netflix Annecy session was wrapping as this post went up. Check back in shortly for more details on the show coming out of the presentation.
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