B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations

B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations (also known as B.O.O.) is an upcoming computer-animated supernatural action comedy film in development by Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, DreamWorks Animation and Little Witch Pictures. It is based on an original story by Tony Leondis and Tom Wheeler, written and directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, it would star Seth Rogen, Melissa McCarthy and Bill Murray and would be released by Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures.

No further information is available about the film as February 9, 2024.

Plot
B.O.O. (Bureau of Otherworldly Operations) is the super classified agency you've never heard of and certainly never seen. Dedicated to 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

 * Seth Rogen as Jackson Moss
 * Davis Cleveland as a young Jackson Moss
 * Melissa McCarthy as Watts
 * Bill Murray as Drake
 * Matt Bomer
 * Octavia Spencer
 * Rashida Jones
 * Jennifer Coolidge
 * Benjamin Stockham
 * Cyrus Arnold
 * Rio Mangini
 * Nigel W. Tierney

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.

Production
In 2013, the film was rescheduled for release on June 5, 2015, but it was pulled from its release to avoid competition with Disney•Pixar's Inside Out in January 2015.