The Real Ghostbusters Needs A Reboot (With The Movie's Cast)
The Real Ghostbusters needs to make a comeback, and it should bring in the movie's cast as the voice actors. It might be inconceivable in a modern movie landscape dominated by sequels and multiverses, but at the time Ghostbusters was produced, nobody involved gave any consideration to a follow-up. The massive success of the 1984 original took the studio by surprise, but the key creatives had little interest in returning. It was The Real Ghostbusters that kept the property alive, with this classic cartoon series debuting in 1986.
The Real Ghostbusters followed the continuing adventures of Venkman, Egon, Winston and Ray, while characters like Janine and Slimer also played major roles. The show added new elements to the franchise lore too, including villains like Samhain or the Boogieman. The Real Ghostbusters — which has a rarely seen pilot — also spawned Kenner action figures and video games and was such a success that the studio eventually pushed for a theatrical sequel with 1989's Ghostbusters II. The Real Ghostbusters ran for seven seasons in total, coming to a close in 1991.
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At its best, The Real Ghostbusters was able to recapture both the humor and scares of the original movie and is still fondly remembered. The series also spawned its own spinoff with the short-lived Extreme Ghostbusters, which introduced a new cast of characters with Egon and Janine acting as mentors. Recent years have seen the arrival of two new Ghostbusters movies with 2016's Answer The Call and 2021's Afterlife. Oddly, despite the nostalgia for the property, there's been no attempts at rebooting The Real Ghostbusters as either a cartoon series or animated movie, but not only
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