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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Casper The Friendly Ghost Is Being Turned into a Live Action TV Show With a Surprising Update · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Casper the friendly Ghost is about as nice as spirits
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  Speaker 2: can get. It's in his name, after all. Now Casper
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  Speaker 2: is officially coming back for a reboot a whole TV series,
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  Speaker 2: but he might not be quite as friendly this time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, according to Deadline, a new live action Casper is
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  Speaker 3: in the works, but with a darker tone to it.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of like Wednesday was spinning off from the Adams
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  Speaker 4: Family with a more sophisticated take.
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  Speaker 2: And Steven Spielberg, who actually executive produced the nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 2: five Casper movie with Christina Ritchie, is back in the
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  Speaker 2: same role.
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  Speaker 3: And this was a hot property. Pretty much every major
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  Speaker 3: studio in Hollywood got involved in a bidding war for
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  Speaker 3: rights to make this new version, so the pitch must
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  Speaker 3: have been very solid.
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  Speaker 2: In the end, Disney won out. As such, look for
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  Speaker 2: Casper on Disney Plus
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.