Dan Aykroyd Producing Netflix ‘Ghostbuster’ Animated Series

Who you gonna call? Dan Aykroyd!

The writer and star of the original Ghostbusters has officially boarded Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation’s animated series as EP, Netflix revealed today in its Annecy lineup.

Netflix hasn’t given a whole lot of detail about the TV show – there is also an animated movie in the works – but has said it will be “based on the beloved Ghostbusters IP” and “debut exclusively on Netflix in 2027.” Aykroyd was previously reported saying there is an opportunity for the show’s writers to “address some of the issues that we need to heal and move on with our lives.”

Aykroyd joins Ben Hibon, Elliott Kalan, Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan and Amie Karp on the EP list. Reports about the show emerged four years ago, an expansion of the universe that started more than four decades back with Aykroyd’s original. Since then the Ghostbusters IP has stretched far and wide.

Reitman and Kenan will attend the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, for which Netflix revealed a buzzy lineup today.

Netflix is promoting the likes of Ricky Gervais’ series Alley Cats, a new The One Piece animation starting from the very beginning of the original manga’s East Blue saga, Taika Waititi’s Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory and Brad Bird’s Ray Gunn.

Netflix is bringing big talent to Annecy, which has become a more crucial part of the streamer’s calendar as it has dived deeper into animation, including Gervais. Today it revealed premiere date of his new show Alley Cats, which will be released August 7, along with a first-look that can be seen below.

Starring Gervais, Diane Morgan and Tom Basden, Alley Cats follows the trials and tribulations of a group of feral British cats from all walks of society. It is Gervais’ first adult animation since HBO and Channel 4’s The Ricky Gervais Show, which was an animated version of the popular podcast from Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington using Hanna-Barbera-era cartoons.

Elsewhere, Netflix revealed concept art for Bird’s Ray Gunn. That one is set in Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, where private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder and a multimedia star named Venus Nova.

At Annecy, Netflix will show sneak peeks of The One Piece, Sparks of Tomorrow and The Ribbon Hero. There will also be a KPop Demon Hunters outdoor singalong.