Netflix's Ghostbusters: Night Shift links '80s films to Afterlife

Gil Kenan and Jason Reitman, who co-wrote and directed 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife and its 2024 sequel Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, will bridge the decades-long gap in the story with a Netflix animated series set in 1994 New York. “We became very curious about the mystery of the 1990s and ghostbusting,” Kenan said, calling it a lost part of the legend of ghostbusting.

The show will explain what happened to the original Ghostbusters’ firehouse headquarters while following an unlikely group of young heroes who become ghostbusters. “Ghostbusters has always been about punching up,” Kenan says, adding that the new characters are outsiders who must be inventive to save the city.

Those characters begin without knowledge of ghostbusting and must quickly learn to deal with supernatural threats. Night Shift will mix villains-of-the-week with a serialized story linked to the films’ timeline; “We want the seasons to feel like real big meaty epic stories, but each episode also is satisfying as an episode,” Kenan said.

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