B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations

B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations is an upcoming 2022 computer-animated supernatural action comedy film by DreamWorks Animation. It is based on an original idea by Tony Leondis, who is also directing. Tom Wheeler is writing the script, Maryann Garger is producing, Kristine Belson and Courtney Pledger are executive producing. The film stars Seth Rogen, Melissa McCarthy and Bill Murray. It will be released on April 8, 2022, by Universal Pictures.

Plot
This supernatural action comedy follows two bumbling apparitions who find themselves in an extraordinary after-life adventure when they join the Bureau of Otherworldly Operations (B.O.O.) – the ghost world’s elite counter-haunting unit – and ultimately must face off against the planet’s greatest haunter.

Cast

 * Seth Rogen as Jackson Moss
 * Melissa McCarthy as Watts
 * Bill Murray as Addison Drake
 * Rashida Jones as Moss' ex-wife
 * Matt Boomer as New husband of Moss' ex-wife
 * Octavia Spencer as Captain Book
 * Jennifer Coolidge as Carol Sue
 * Benjamin Stockham as Henry

Production
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 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. Seth Rogen was reported in August 2010 to have joined the film as a voice of the lead character. On September 9, 2012, film distributor 20th Century Fox set November 6, 2015 for the film's release date (which was moved a few months later up to September 25), this time as an original project by Leondis, titled B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations, and written by Tom Wheeler. Later, in 2013, the film was rescheduled for release on June 5, 2015.