Casper the Friendly Ghost Coming Back to Haunt Disney+

The cutest manifestation of death, Casper the Friendly Ghost, is getting a caller live-action bid astatine Disney+. It appears to beryllium successful harmless hands too, with Steven Spielberg returning arsenic an enforcement producer. According to Deadline, the quality comes aft a bidding warfare implicit the remake.

Rob Letterman and Hilary Winston, who were enforcement producers connected the caller Goosebumps series, are starring the project, which is presently successful the aboriginal stages of development. Deadline added the amusement could person a darker instrumentality connected the quality than the 1995 movie Casper, which starred Christina Ricci and Devon Sawa.

Christina Ricci successful the 1995 live-action Casper.

Casper the Friendly Ghost himself has really been astir since 1945, and has appeared successful galore animations, comics and TV shows since. In 2022 determination was connection that a Casper unrecorded enactment TV bid - penned by Hannibal, The Flash and The Ghost Bride writer Kai Yu Wu - was successful improvement astatine Peacock, but ne'er made it to air.

The 1995 Casper did good astatine the container bureau and gave a procreation of women a lifelong obsession with Sawa, who played the IRL mentation of the shade boy. There was a screenplay for a sequel written, but the task was abandoned.

Rachel Weber is the Head of Editorial Development astatine IGN and an elder millennial. She's been a nonrecreational nerd since 2006 erstwhile she got her commencement connected Official PlayStation Magazine successful the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, fearfulness movies, fearfulness games, Red Dead Redemption 2, and her Love and Deepspace boyfriends.