B.O.O.: Bureau Otherworldy World

B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations (also known as B.O.O. or Boo U.!) is an American computer-animated supernatural action comedy film in development by DreamWorks Animation. It is based on an original idea and directed by Tony Leondis. Tom Wheeler was said to be writing the script, with Maryann Garger as producer and Courtney Pledger as executive producing. At the time the film was announced, it would star Chris Pratt, Jesse Eisenberg and Bill Murray and would be released by Universal Pictures.
== Plot ==
B.O.O. (Bureau of Otherworldly Operations) is the super classified agency you've never heard of and certainly never seen. Dedicated to helping souls move on into the afterlife and protecting humans from evil hauntings, the agents of B.O.O. have a secret weapon: they are ghosts themselves! Newbie agents Jackson Moss and his odd-ball partner, Watts, uncover a plot to destroy B.O.O. by the agency's Most Wanted Haunter. They must use every trick in their arsenal to defeat his powerful ghost army and save Earth from a ghostly fate.
== Cast ==
* Chris Pratt as Jackson Moss
* Jesse Eisenberg as Watts
* Bill Murray as Drake, the agency's Most Wanted Haunter
* Melissa McCarthy as Ms. Green, the grouch receptionist
* Benjamin Stockham as Henry Moss
* Octavia Spencer as Sam
* Marlo Thomas as Henry's therapist that turns to actually be dead. 
* Kaitlin Olson as Wendy Moss, Henry's mother
* Jimmy Fallon as Dave Moss, Henry's father
Several historical figures and celebrities make cameos as spirits in the afterlife including Bruce Lee, Judy Garland, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Harriet Tubman, Napoleon Bonaparte, Empress Wu Zetian, Joseph Stalin, Marlon Brando, and Stanley Kubrick. 
== Development ==
On May 28, 2009 DreamWorks Animation first time announced plans for "Super Secret Ghost Project." Later in the mid-June 2009, it was reported that DreamWorks is developing the project as Boo U., Tony Leondis has been set to direct and Jon Vitti and Yong Duk Jhun to pen the screenplay for the film, set to be released in the end of 2012. The story would follow a ghost who is bad at his job and must return to ghost school. It was announced that the project would be brought back with new writers and a recast for several of the characters. 
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