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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Developing Horror-Comedy Series “Truth Seekers”!

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The duo behind Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost formed their own indie production company last year, Stolen Picture, and their first small screen project will bring them back into the horror genre!

As revealed by Variety, Pegg and Frost are developing “Truth Seekers, a half-hour, horror-comedy TV series about a three-person paranormal investigation team.

“Each episode is going to be an adventure, a potential haunting or something,” Pegg tells the site. “It’ll start as a very parochial idea, a very small business venture for these people, but it will expand as the series goes on to be something far more global. It’s a language everyone understands, the mystery of the unknown. ‘Shaun of the Dead’ was a very parochial story set in North London and somehow it managed to get this global reach because everyone understands the language of zombie movies.”

Meanwhile, Stolen Picture’s debut film is now in post-production. It’s a horror-comedy titled Slaughterhouse Rulez, directed by Crispian Mills. The film is set in an illustrious British boarding school that becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror.

Stolen Picture is backed by Sony Pictures Television, which is, separately, distributing Slaughterhouse Rulez,” Variety notes. “It is already out in the market with Truth Seekers.”

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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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