Dan Aykroyd Joins Netflix Ghostbusters Series as EP

Dan Aykroyd, co-creator and original star of the Ghostbusters franchise, has joined Netflix's upcoming animated series as an executive producer, the streaming service announced as part of its lineup for the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

The series, produced in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation by Flying Bark Productions, is slated to debut exclusively on Netflix in 2027. It blends comedy, science fiction, horror, and fantasy, drawing from the franchise's established lore and set in a reimagined Manhattan. Executive producers include Aykroyd, Ben Hibon, Elliott Kalan, Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan, and Amie Karp. Reitman, Kenan, Hibon, and Kalan are scheduled to present a world-exclusive preview during a Netflix animation panel at the festival on June 24, 2026, in Annecy, France.

The project builds on the franchise's animated history, which includes the successful 1980s series The Real Ghostbusters and its 1990s follow-up, Extreme Ghostbusters. These shows captured the property's absurdist tone of blue-collar ghost hunters battling colorful supernatural threats, a style that proved challenging to replicate in live-action films amid high production costs and...