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Greg Nicotero Taps Into Nostalgia With These “The Walking Dead” Posters

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AMC is pulling from Netflix’s playbook in tapping into nostalgia in promoting their 100th episode of “The Walking Dead”. Much like the series of “Stranger Things” posters that gave homage to horror classics, these pieces of “The Walking Dead” art do the same, giving nods to The Thing, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Alien, Black Runner, The Exorcist, Ghostbusters, The Mummy, Night of the Living Dead and more.

“I thought it was a great opportunity to celebrate that we’ve done 100 episodes,” Greg Nicotero tells THR of the series of posters he and his KNB colleagues created to honor the show’s milestone episode.

As “The Walking Dead” started rapidly shuffling toward its milestone 100th episode, airing Oct. 22, Nicotero started musing on ways to combine his love for posters and his love for the show he’s worked on for the better part of a decade, explains the site. The idea was finally cracked during a fateful conversation with series lead Andrew Lincoln.

“I was standing in front of the Sanctuary with Andy, shooting the first episode of [season eight], and we started talking about this idea that I had,” Nicotero remembers. “And he said to me, ‘What if we did The Exorcist, and you use the front of the Sanctuary as the building, and you have a stream of light coming out, with Rick Grimes standing there?’ And I looked at him and went, ‘That’s exactly what I’m talking about.’ It was just perfect.”

From there, Nicotero called upon two of his KNB associates, Michael Broom and John Wheaton, to team on a series of posters meant to mash the show with classic movies together. We’ve been detailing them for months now, but here’s the full result. Which one is your favorite?

All posters courtesy of Michael Broom and John Wheaton

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“I’m the Grim Reaper” – Sam Raimi Teams with ’10 Cloverfield Lane’ Writers on Gory, Funny Webtoon Adaptation

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I'm the Grim Reaper

The Wattpad/Webtoons and Grave Weaver-created series “I’m the Grim Reaper” is nearing its 200th episode, and it’s also getting a new TV series adaptation with talented names behind it. Deadline reports that celebrated filmmaker Sam Raimi is teaming up with 10 Cloverfield Lane scribes Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken on the new series.

The series follows “Scarlet, a young woman who wakes up in the ninth circle of hell with no idea how she got there. Satan offers to send Scarlet back to Earth if she’ll work as his reaper. But it doesn’t take long for Scarlet to realize that Satan’s offer is even worse than she feared.”

The story is said to fit perfectly into “Raimi’s wheelhouse, striking a deft balance between scares, gore and humor.”

Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi will executive produce the series with Weaver, who’ll also team on the development process. Raimi may be most known for his Spider-Man and Evil Dead movies, but the filmmaker has been busy behind the scenes producing. More recently, Raimi produced this week’s action brawler Boy Kills World and last year’s 65, with Don’t Move on the way.

The “I’m the Grim Reaper” webtoon launched in 2019, delving into the humor and horrors of reaping souls in Hell. That it’s on the cusp of airing its 200th episode means no shortage of story and mythology for Campbell and Stuecken to pull from.

Stay tuned for additional details on this new series as they arrive.

 

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