B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations (partially found unreleased DreamWorks Animation film; 2015)

The logo for the film.

Status: Partially Found

B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations was the title of an American CGI action comedy film made by DreamWorks Animation.

Originally having a June 2015 release date, DreamWorks decided to move the release date to November 2014, a mere 7 months before release, in order to avoid competition with Pixar's Inside Out.^[1] The film was then removed from the release schedule and was never added back in. Although it has been said that the film has been moved back to an "in development" status, it's very unlikely that the film will ever see the light of day, and as such, has likely been cancelled.

On January 29th, 2019, Alexis Wanneroy, former animation supervisor at DreamWorks, uploaded on his Vimeo account an animation reel showing footage of B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations, as well as Larrikins, another cancelled DreamWorks Animation production. On February 9th, 2019, Wanneroy uploaded a pre-production reel showing additional animation from both cancelled movies. Twitter user Art of Lost and Cancelled Media uploaded a compilation video of clips from both cancelled movies, taken from Wanneroy's reels. Roughly 45 seconds of footage of ‘’B.O.O.’’ is shown in the video, with 16 of those seconds being from apparent final renders.^[2]

As of 2022, more footage had resurfaced or leaked from animators of this film, it is unclear how far the production of this film had been when it got cancelled.

Plot

This supernatural action comedy film 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.