It was announced this week that Netflix would be making a Ghostbusters animated series, to continue the recent trend of bringing back nostalgia franchises - but they are not stopping there.

Announced by Sony Pictures Animation soon after, they plan to make an animated feature as well - only this one will add a few changes to the canon.

While celebrating Ghostbusters Day on June 8th, the official release of the original film, it was announced that a full-length animated movie would soon be in the works, touting a "new take" with all new characters.

Developing the project will be Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan, who wrote Ghostbusters: Afterlife together, along with directors Jennifer Kluska, who helmed Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania, and Chirs Prynoski, founder of Titmouse Animation, based on a script by Brenda Hsueh.

Jason Reitman, director of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and son of the original film's director, had this to say:

"This was a passion project of my father's (Ivan Reitman) and it's easy to understand why. The world of the unknown can only be properly explored through the limitless reach of animation."

The effort to make a universe out of Ghostbusters has never really gotten off the ground, despite two sequels, a reboot, a pseudo-sequel disguised as a video game, and a Saturday morning cartoon from the 80s. What better way to keep the franchise alive than to create a big-budget animated movie which can go places a live-action film never could?

Although, whatever this new take entails could be the make or break for the Ghostbusters continuing their adventures.

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