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Who you gonna call? Dan Aykroyd!
The writer and prima of nan original Ghostbusters has officially boarded Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation’s animated bid arsenic EP, Netflix revealed coming successful its Annecy lineup.
Netflix hasn’t fixed a full batch of item astir nan TV show – location is besides an animated movie successful nan works – but has said it will beryllium “based connected nan beloved Ghostbusters IP” and “debut exclusively connected Netflix successful 2027.” Aykroyd was antecedently reported saying location is an opportunity for nan show’s writers to “address immoderate of nan issues that we request to heal and move connected pinch our lives.”
Aykroyd joins Ben Hibon, Elliott Kalan, Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan and Amie Karp connected nan EP list. Reports astir nan show emerged 4 years ago, an description of nan beingness that started much than 4 decades backmost pinch Aykroyd’s original. Since past nan Ghostbusters IP has stretched acold and wide.
Reitman and Kenan will be nan Annecy International Animation Film Festival, for which Netflix revealed a buzzy lineup today.
Netflix is promoting nan likes of Ricky Gervais’ bid Alley Cats, a caller The One Piece animation starting from nan very opening of nan original manga’s East Blue saga, Taika Waititi’s Charlie vs. nan Chocolate Factory and Brad Bird’s Ray Gunn.
Netflix is bringing large talent to Annecy, which has go a much important portion of nan streamer’s almanac arsenic it has dived deeper into animation, including Gervais. Today it revealed premiere day of his caller show Alley Cats, which will beryllium released August 7, on pinch a first-look that tin beryllium seen below.
Starring Gervais, Diane Morgan and Tom Basden, Alley Cats follows nan tests and tribulations of a group of feral British cats from each walks of society. It is Gervais’ first big animation since HBO and Channel 4’s The Ricky Gervais Show, which was an animated type of nan celebrated podcast from Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington utilizing Hanna-Barbera-era cartoons.
Elsewhere, Netflix revealed conception creation for Bird’s Ray Gunn. That 1 is group successful Metropia, a gigantic metropolis successful an alternate early arsenic seen from 1939, wherever backstage oculus Raymond Gunn is drawn into a lawsuit involving aliens, execution and a multimedia prima named Venus Nova.
At Annecy, Netflix will show sneak peeks of The One Piece, Sparks of Tomorrow and The Ribbon Hero. There will besides beryllium a KPop Demon Hunters outdoor singalong.
