Ever since acquiring the license for Casper, The Friendly Ghost, Universal has made a trio of movies and a couple of animated series. Seeing the success CW and WB have had with a dark, Twin Peaks-meets-Saved by The Bell hybrid adaptation of the Archie characters in Riverdale, Universal wants some of that action.
Not content with developing an origin story for Casper in the first film in 1995, Universal has commissioned Kai Yu Wu (Ghost Bride) to create a new origin for a live-action/CGI series ticketed for Peacock.
A family moves into Eternal Falls, and, along with Casper, gets caught up in a mystery that has continued for over a century. Casting, of course, hasn't started yet, but expect this to wind up on Peacock within the next year or so. It's been 10 years since Casper's last series, Casper's Scare School, came to an end, so the question is, can Universal succeed in freshening Casper for a new generation? We'll have to stay tuned.
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