Official: Ghosts WILL become a film

Shooting starts next month

Ghosts is being made into a film, entitled The Possession of Button House.

Filming will start on the big-screen version next month, reuniting the original cast.

It comes after the co-creators this week all shared a short video of the filming location – West Horsley Place in Surrey – sparking feverish speculation among fans, as Chortle reported.

Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond have written the feature length family adventure film in which Lolly Adefope, Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe will also star.

In a statement, the creators 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.'

Simon Hynd, who directed 15 episodes of the TV series as well as working on Motherland and Can You Keep a Secret? will direct.

Details of the plot or release daye have not yet been revealed but producer Alison Carpenter promised: 'Die-hard fans and newcomers are in for a real treat.'

Ghosts ran for five series on BBC One between 2019 and a 2023 Christmas special, concluding with Ritchie and Smith-Bynoe's Alison and Mike leaving Button House as they started a family, but shown periodically returning to meet up with the ghosts in their old age.

Ghosts finale

BBC Studios also announced this week that there will be a Czech version of the show and a second series of the German remake, meaning there are now seven adaptations worldwide, with the US version already on its fifth series.

Ghosts: The Possession of Button House.producution credits

Made by: Monumental Television
For: BBC Film, Lionsgate and BBC Studios
Written by: Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond
Directed by: Simon Hynd
Producers: Alison Owen, Debra Hayward, Alison Carpenter and Andy Brunskill
Executive producers: Jill Forbes, Eva Yates, Marie-Claire Benson , Emma Berkofsky, Richard Acton and the writers.