Image: Netflix TUDUM and Ben Hibon image, courtesy of Netflix
Netflix unveiled new particulars about its upcoming Ghostbusters animated sequence, a part of its Household Spectacle Slate, throughout its Annecy 2025 presentation. The sequence is being produced in collaboration with Sony Photos Animation.
The sequence was launched by Dominique Bazay, Netflix’s Director of Animation for Households and Children, who was on stage to current one in all 4 classes for Netflix’s upcoming slate. Within the case of Ghostbusters, it falls within the Household Spectacle “bucket” alongside Minecraft, Conflict of Clans, and Stranger Issues: Tales from ’85:
“These spectacle reveals are a large guess for us. We wish to make spectacular animation for your complete household, for fogeys, for teenagers, 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 group. They’re the individuals who introduced you the unimaginable Mitchells vs. the Machines and naturally, the Spider-Verse movies. That is Ghostbusters such as you’ve by no means seen it.”
The numerous new announcement for the sequence, past a set of idea artwork items showcased to these in attendance, is that the brand new sequence is being developed beneath the inventive management of Ben Hibon, who serves as govt producer and showrunner.
Who’s Ben Hibon? Represented by Kinetic Media, Hibon is a famend business and video director whose work spans high-profile campaigns for notable purchasers such as Disney, Microsoft, Sony, and most lately, Riot Video games. He gained early acclaim together with his MTV Asia quick Codehunters, considered by over 400 million folks, and went on to serve as Chief Inventive Officer at Psyop and Luma. Hibon notably directed the acclaimed Story of Three Brothers sequence in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Half 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 lately, after main cinematics at Riot Video games, he grew to become the director, co-executive producer, and inventive lead of Nickelodeon’s CG animated Star Trek: Prodigy.
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Talking in a pre-prepared video, Hibon launched the sequence with the backdrop of a number of idea artwork items. Right here’s the total transcript of what he stated (which was in opposition to a remixed model of the enduring Ghostbusters theme song by Ray Parker Jr.):
“Bonjour Annecy, je m’appelle Ben Hibon. I’m govt producer and showrunner on the Ghostbusters animated sequence. Ghostbusters has all the time been a very shocking mix of horror, comedy, sci-fi and fantasy.
We wish to maintain 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 aim is rarely photorealism. The way in which we method gentle, the quantity 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 principally 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 larger.
We’re capable of be very daring and really impactful and really hanging, distorting movement, mix with body charges, ghost designs. We will push the envelope, actually elevate content material and actually shock audiences.
Whereas 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 had been standing silhouetted with their backs going through in direction of the “digicam” on a hill), with different snaps set indoors and outdoor in New York Metropolis, specializing in our heroes and monsters. One specific image had one of many protagonists wading by means of a New York inside crammed with containers, with a proton pack on their again glowing. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse is clearing the blueprint for the animation fashion, which is smart 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 record of all the brand new bulletins that got here out of the Annecy Film Festival, try our full Annecy recap right here or maintain a watch out on What’s on Netflix within the coming days for all the newest.
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