Extreme Ghostbusters

Extreme Ghostbusters is an animated American supernatural comedy-drama film directed by Jennifer Kluska from a screenplay co-written with Hilary Winston and produced by Jason Reitman. An entry in the Ghostbusters franchise, the film is an adaptation of the animated series Extreme Ghostbusters (1997). The film stars the voices of Sarah-Nicole Robles, Zeno Robinson, Xolo Maridueña, Tom Holland, Lupita Nyong'o, and Keith David. In the film, Ghostbusters fan Kylie Griffin must rally her schoolmates into becoming a new team of Ghostbusters to stop Achira, an ancient spirit.
== Synopsis ==
Years have passed since the era of the Ghostbusters and those times for New York have, for the most part, a memory kept alive by fans of the supernatural, such as Kylie Griffin and her classmates, Garrett and Roland Jackson. However, after Griffin, in a failed attempt to talk to the spirit of her grandmother, ends up bringing back an old foe of the Ghostbusters named "Achira", an ancient spirit determined to regain power via her deadly infection. Griffin, Riviera, Jackson, and fellow schoolmate Eduardo Riviera, have to reactivate the old Proton Packs and becoming the next generation of Ghostbusters if they hope to save New York City and the world.
== Voice cast ==
* Sarah-Nicole Robles as Kylie Griffin: A Goth high schooler and fan of the Ghostbusters who becomes the new team's leader.
* Zeno Robinson as Roland Jackson: A high schooler fan of the Ghostbusters with a passion for technology who becomes the new Ghostbuster's inventor.
* Xolo Maridueña as Eduardo Riviera: A slacker who joins the new Ghostbusters with the hopes of escaping his family's expectations.
* Tom Holland as Garrett Miller: A disabled high schooler and fan of the Ghostbusters who joins the new team.
* Lupita Nyong'o as Achira: An ancient spirit once defeated by the original Ghostbusters who later returns to Earth.
* Keith David as The Piper: A "ghost bounty hunter" hired by Achira to help her regain her power.
Additionally, Frank Welker, Arsenio Hall, and Maurice LaMarche reprise their roles from previous animated Ghostbusters media as Ray Stanz, Winston Zeddemore, and Egon Spengler, while Eric Bauza voices Peter Venkman. Billy West also reprises his role from the original Extreme Ghostbusters series as Slimer, the original Ghostbsuters' ghost friend. Additonally, Jason Marsden, who voiced Garrett in Extreme Ghostbusters, makes a cameo as a student.
== Music ==
John Murphy would provide the score for the film; he would use the themes for Extreme Ghostbusters as inspiration in additon to quoting Ray Parker Jr.'s Ghosbusters theme song. He would also use his work on The Suicide Squad as inspiration. For Kylie, he would compose a "slow, melodical" theme performed enterily with an electric guitar, in order to give her theme "that goth feel" required for the charcter.
== Trivia ==
* This is the first Ghostbusters film to be directly based on an animated series.
* Extreme Ghostbusters marks the first film in the franchise to not to be released on theaters.