Image: Netflix TUDUM and Ben Hibon image, courtesy of Netflix
Netflix unveiled new particulars about its upcoming Ghostbusters animated collection, a part of its Household Spectacle Slate, throughout its Annecy 2025 presentation. The collection is being produced in collaboration with Sony Footage Animation.
The collection was launched by Dominique Bazay, Netflix’s Director of Animation for Households and Children, who was on stage to current certainly one of 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 wager for us. We wish to make spectacular animation for all the household, for fogeys, 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 workforce. They’re the individuals who introduced you the unbelievable 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 collection, past a set of idea artwork items showcased to these in attendance, is that the brand new collection is being developed beneath the inventive management of Ben Hibon, who serves as government 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 not too long ago, Riot Video games. He gained early acclaim along with his MTV Asia brief Codehunters, seen by over 400 million individuals, 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 collection for Sony’s Heavenly Sword. Most not too long ago, after main cinematics at Riot Video games, he turned the director, co-executive producer, and artistic lead of Nickelodeon’s CG animated Star Trek: Prodigy.
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Talking in a pre-prepared video, Hibon launched the collection with the backdrop of a number of idea artwork items. Right here’s the complete transcript of what he mentioned (which was towards a remixed model of the long-lasting Ghostbusters theme song by Ray Parker Jr.):
“Bonjour Annecy, je m’appelle Ben Hibon. I’m government producer and showrunner on the Ghostbusters animated collection. Ghostbusters has all the time been a extremely stunning 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 objective isn’t photorealism. The best way we method gentle, the amount of sunshine and the softness and the coloration and the temperature of sunshine is basically 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 capable of be very daring and really impactful and really hanging, distorting movement, mix with body charges, ghost designs. We can 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 seemed extremely stylized and drew a constructive reception from these within the viewers.
We noticed from the photographs that the collection seems to be following 4 younger protagonists (they have been standing silhouetted with their backs going through in direction of the “digital camera” on a hill), with different snaps set indoors and outdoor in New York Metropolis, specializing in our heroes and monsters. One explicit image had one of many protagonists wading by means of a New York inside crammed with bins, with a proton pack on their again glowing. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse is clearing the blueprint for the animation model, which is sensible given the studio.
Netflix’s Ghostbusters collection is government produced by Elliott Kalan, Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan, and Amie Karp of Ghost Corps, Inc.
For a full listing 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 most recent.
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