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Netflix unveiled new particulars about its upcoming Ghostbusters animated sequence, a part of its Family Spectacle Slate, throughout its Annecy 2025 presentation. The sequence is being produced in collaboration with Sony Pictures Animation.
The sequence was launched by Dominique Bazay, Netflix’s Director of Animation for Families and Kids, who was on stage to current certainly one of 4 classes for Netflix’s upcoming slate. In the case of Ghostbusters, it falls within the Family Spectacle “bucket” alongside Minecraft, Clash of Clans, and Stranger Things: Tales from ’85:
“These spectacle reveals are a large wager for us. We need to make spectacular animation for the whole household, for folks, for youths, for teenagers, for grandparents, for younger adults, whether or not they watch collectively or aside.
We’re very, very proud to be working with Kristine Belson [President of Sony Pictures Animation] and her crew. They are the individuals who introduced you the unbelievable Mitchells vs. the Machines and naturally, the Spider-Verse movies. This is Ghostbusters such as you’ve by no means seen it.”
The vital new announcement for the sequence, past a group of idea artwork items showcased to these in attendance, is that the brand new sequence is being developed below the artistic management of Ben Hibon, who serves as govt producer and showrunner.
Who is Ben Hibon? Represented by Kinetic Media, Hibon is a famend business and video director whose work spans high-profile campaigns for notable shoppers akin to Disney, Microsoft, Sony, and most just lately, Riot Games. He gained early acclaim together with his MTV Asia quick Codehunters, seen by over 400 million folks, and went on to function Chief Creative Officer at Psyop and Luma. Hibon notably directed the acclaimed Tale of Three Brothers sequence in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, which earned him a British Animation Award. Following this, he labored with Zack Snyder on Sucker Punch, contributed to Mirror Mirror, and directed an animated sequence for Sony’s Heavenly Sword. Most just lately, after main cinematics at Riot Games, he grew to become the director, co-executive producer, and artistic lead of Nickelodeon’s CG animated Star Trek: Prodigy.
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Speaking in a pre-prepared video, Hibon launched the sequence with the backdrop of a number of idea artwork items. Here’s the complete transcript of what he stated (which was towards a remixed model of the long-lasting Ghostbusters theme tune by Ray Parker Jr.):
“Bonjour Annecy, je m’appelle Ben Hibon. I’m govt producer and showrunner on the Ghostbusters animated sequence. Ghostbusters has at all times been a very stunning mix of horror, comedy, sci-fi and fantasy.
We need to hold the character and the story completely grounded in a time and place that felt actual. It has grit, it has texture, it has vibrancy. The purpose is rarely photorealism. The means we method gentle, the amount of sunshine and the softness and the coloration and the temperature of sunshine is de facto what brings very extremely stylized characters or simplified environments or mainly textures right into a realm that feels very tactile and tangible.
My mission is unbound by actuality. That itself permits us to go a lot broader, in some methods a lot greater.
We’re in a position to be very daring and really impactful and really placing, distorting movement, mix with body charges, ghost designs. We will have the ability to push the envelope, actually elevate content material and actually shock audiences.
While the idea artwork items haven’t been launched to the general public, they did set the tone as outlined above, and all appeared extremely stylized and drew a constructive reception from these within the viewers.
We noticed from the images that the sequence seems to be following 4 younger protagonists (they have been standing silhouetted with their backs going through in direction of the “camera” on a hill), with different snaps set indoors and open air in New York City, specializing in our heroes and monsters. One specific image had one of many protagonists wading via a New York inside stuffed with containers, with a proton pack on their again glowing. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse is clearing the blueprint for the animation type, which is sensible given the studio.
Netflix’s Ghostbusters sequence is govt produced by Elliott Kalan, Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan, and Amie Karp of Ghost Corps, Inc.
For a full checklist of all the brand new bulletins that got here out of the Annecy Film Festival, try our full Annecy recap right here or hold a watch out on What’s on Netflix within the coming days for all the newest.
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