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New Ghostbusters Animated Series Coming to Netflix

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A new Ghostbusters animated series had been greenlighted by Netflix, but not much is know about it yet.
https://www.ign.com/articles/netflix-reportedly-greenlights-ghostbusters-animated-series
The only information in the IGN article is that it's showrunner is Elliot Kalan, who previously worked on The Daily Show and the revival of Mystery Theater 3000 and that it's tone will be similar to Afterlife and Frozen Empire.
I'm curious how closely they'll tie this into the movies.
 
Yeah, the series would be a nice way to dig deeper on the current movies' cast.
So if they bring back the original movies' cast, should they be voiced by the movie actors or the Real/Extreme actors? Not sure yet which I'd rather see, or hear I guess.
 
I'm going to guess it's going to acknowledge the movies as a starting point, and go on from there. Might include Egon as a ghost that guides them along, giving them advice, maybe even helping them design new tech.
 
I wouldn't mind if the series picked up on the status quo at the end of Frozen Empire. The movie (which I enjoyed) was validly criticized for having too many supporting characters, but a series would have room to flesh them out more and build on the film's additions to the mythos.
 
Tosk said:
I sincerely hope not, considering he seemingly 'moved on' at the end of Afterlife.
(That's if the cartoon is in line with the films. If they reinvent it, sky's the limit.)
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Well, I feel with cartoons, it's a little different. Sometimes artistic liberties are taken. Egon's one of their most iconic characters, and in terms of a cartoon, it makes sense for his spirit to still be around in some form helping out. He doesn't need to be a full-on character. Could be someone Phoebe ends up taking inspiration from for new inventions.
 
Owain Taggart said:
Well, I feel with cartoons, it's a little different. Sometimes artistic liberties are taken.
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Not just cartoons. Even live-action TV series based on movies often take liberties with the continuity. For instance, the 1986 live-action TV series sequel to John Carpenter's 1984 Starman retconned the movie's events to the '70s so that Starman could have a 14-year-old son in the present day (even though that completely contradicted the movie's use of the Voyager 2 probe as the thing that brought Starman to Earth). Often, the series is just inspired by the movie while being in its own separate continuity, e.g. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Westworld, or 12 Monkeys. If anything, the TV adaptation being truly in continuity with the source movie is the exception, not the rule.

The Real Ghostbusters, of course, posited that the movie was an in-universe fictional account based on real-life events, handily explaining away any inconsistencies as the filmmakers' artistic license.
 
Christopher said:
Not just cartoons. Even live-action TV series based on movies often take liberties with the continuity.
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Well, I guess I meant that cartoons in general have more of a tendency to take artistic liberties, which is something more easily done with animation as a medium to tell stories.
Christopher said:
The Real Ghostbusters, of course, posited that the movie was an in-universe fictional account based on real-life events, handily explaining away any inconsistencies as the filmmakers' artistic license.
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Yeah, in fact, I think there's an episode where the Real Ghostbusters end up meeting their movie-version counterparts, which goes on to explain why the two versions of the characters look so different.

And Slimer is another thing they take artistic liberties with. In the movies, he's in containment. But in the cartoon series, he's often found hanging around the firehouse. And with that in mind, having a character like Egon hang around, even as a minor character, would be in keeping with the cartoons before it. I don't see it being outside the realm of possibility for a cartoon series like this.
 
Owain Taggart said:
Well, I guess I meant that cartoons in general have more of a tendency to take artistic liberties, which is something more easily done with animation as a medium to tell stories.
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I don't agree at all. Looking over Wikipedia's lists of live-action and animated series based on movies, I think the animated ones are statistically more likely to at least pretend to be direct sequels (or sometimes prequels) to the movies, while live-action adaptations are more frequently reboots set in their own continuities.

I agree with your underlying point that an adaptation would be free to retcon things from the movie such as having Egon's ghost still be present. I just disagree that it makes a difference whether it's live-action or animated. It's a false distinction and irrelevant to your point.

Owain Taggart said:
Yeah, in fact, I think there's an episode where the Real Ghostbusters end up meeting their movie-version counterparts, which goes on to explain why the two versions of the characters look so different.
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Rather, the Ghostbusters travel to Hollywood to consult on the movie being made about their inaugural adventure. (On reading the cast list, one of them (Winston, I think) says "Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis? Sounds like a law firm.") They're never shown meeting the actors, but at the end of the episode, they're in a theater watching live-action clips from the movie, and one of them (Peter, I think) remarks that the actors don't look a thing like them.


Owain Taggart said:
And Slimer is another thing they take artistic liberties with. In the movies, he's in containment. But in the cartoon series, he's often found hanging around the firehouse.
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In Frozen Empire, Slimer was living in the attic. His presence in the firehouse was a direct homage to The Real Ghostbusters, one of many in the film.
 
Christopher said:
I don't agree at all. Looking over Wikipedia's lists of live-action and animated series based on movies, I think the animated ones are statistically more likely to at least pretend to be direct sequels (or sometimes prequels) to the movies, while live-action adaptations are more frequently reboots set in their own continuities.

I agree with your underlying point that an adaptation would be free to retcon things from the movie such as having Egon's ghost still be present. I just disagree that it makes a difference whether it's live-action or animated. It's a false distinction and irrelevant to your point.
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Ahh Ok. Fair enough. I guess I've always seen cartoons in general as being less beholden to live-action canon, and that they would be more apt to revisiting things. But that's more of a POV thing.

Christopher said:
Rather, the Ghostbusters travel to Hollywood to consult on the movie being made about their inaugural adventure. (On reading the cast list, one of them (Winston, I think) says "Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis? Sounds like a law firm.") They're never shown meeting the actors, but at the end of the episode, they're in a theater watching live-action clips from the movie, and one of them (Peter, I think) remarks that the actors don't look a thing like them.
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Ok, I might have misremembered it, and I might also be remembering seeing a comic book cover of the same scene somewhere. Either way, it's a brilliant way to reference them and give reason for the different appearances.
Christopher said:
In Frozen Empire, Slimer was living in the attic. His presence in the firehouse was a direct homage to The Real Ghostbusters, one of many in the film.
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Yeah, thought that was brilliant. Also, he had a decidedly more RB look to him. Though maybe that's more due to the advances in VFX.
 
Owain Taggart said:
Also, he had a decidedly more RB look to him. Though maybe that's more due to the advances in VFX.
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Actually they did Slimer mostly with puppetry in Frozen Empire, since they wanted to be true to his original look. Even when they did use CGI, they limited it to replicating how their physical puppet looked and what movements it was capable of making. From what I read, it sounds like the improvements were mainly in terms of integrating Slimer into the environment, making his transparency and interactive lighting look more like he was present in the scene rather than just double-exposed.
 
Interesting. I think it worked, because it did feel like he was more part of the environment rather than a VFX. The end-effect feels more grounded if that makes sense.
 
It could be fun if it takes place in the same continuity as Real and Extreme GB, with whatever version of Afterlife and Frozen Empire happened in that Universe as back story. Then you could have Ghost Egon around.
 
That was my thinking overall. I've always felt the RGB were an extension of the movies, even though canonically in the cartoon, it's the inverse.
 
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