Ghosts: The Possession of Button House - everything we know about award-winning BBC comedy feature film adaptation
Award winning BBC comedy Ghosts will be getting a feature film adaptation, it has been confirmed, with filming commencing at West Horsley Place in March.
Work will soon begin on a feature film adaptation of award-winning BBC comedy, Ghosts, it has been confirmed. BBC Film, Lionsgate and BBC Studios have greenlit Monumental Television, part of ITV Studios, to pursue the big-screen production, Ghosts: The Possession of Button House.
The film has been written by long-standing Ghosts stars, writers and creators including Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond, with Lolly Adefope, Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe all set to reprise their roles in the movie.
Director Simon Hynd, who also oversaw the series, will also return, with award-winning producers Alison Owen and Debra Hayward working behind the scenes on the project, along with Alison Carpenter and Andy Brunskill.
Jill Forbes is executive producer for Monumental, while executive producer for BBC Film is Eva Yates. Lionsgate will distribute in the UK with Marie-Claire Benson and Emma Berkofsky as executive producers, with BBC Studios overseeing distribution worldwide, with Richard Acton as executive producer.
The creators/writers said: "We thought we had said goodbye to Button House at the end of the final series. We never planned to come back. But when we had the idea for this story, we all got so excited that we couldn’t resist returning to our haunted home for one more adventure.
"We can’t wait to be together and to welcome some brilliant new faces, to tell this soul-stirring tale of life and death."
Owen and Hayward said: "We are thrilled to be bringing this hit comedy to the big screen for an even bigger audience to enjoy."
Carpenter added: "We couldn’t be more excited to be working with this exceptionally talented team once again, and with Simon at the helm. Die-hard fans and newcomers are in for a real treat."
Eva Yates, director of BBC Film, said: "At BBC, we are overjoyed to be bringing our beloved ‘Ghosts’ back once again, this time for a hilarious and cinematic adventure, for the enjoyment of audiences on big and small screen alike."
Marie-Claire Benson, EVP, head of the motion picture group at Lionsgate UK, said: "We’re proud to champion outstanding British filmmaking and excited to work with the remarkable Ghosts team to bring Button House to UK Cinemas."
Richard Acton, EP for for BBC Studios, added: "We are delighted to be partnering again with Monumental and the Ghosts team and can’t wait for international audiences both new and old to see this brilliant latest chapter in the Ghosts story."
Ghosts: The Possession of Button House will be filmed at West Horsley Place, Surrey, which provided the backdrop for the original series, and on location in the surrounding area.
Produced by Monumental Television, Ghosts ran for five series on BBC One, with the final episode watched by 7.2 million viewers, making it the most-watched comedy series of 2023 in the UK.
The hit US version of the series is currently in its fifth season, produced by Lionsgate Television in partnership with CBS Studios and BBC Studios LA, with a sixth season already commissioned. Internationally, the format has now been licensed in six territories, most recently in Czechia, with local versions also produced in France, Germany, Australia and Greece. The series and format are distributed by BBC Studios.