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John Carpenter is Developing Four New TV Shows

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Appearing on an episode of the podcast Killer POV, Sandy King Carpenter, the wife of renowned horror director John Carpenter, revealed that four shows are in the process of being developed. Carpenter would be the executive producer of the shows as well as direct the pilots.

King Carpenter, who is a frequent producer alongside her husband, explains:

Right now, there’s four series waiting to go to network. As far as I’m concerned, we’ll do all of them. I mean, they’re great, and they’re different from anything that’s out there, and they again push the boundaries of what’s horror. [John] would be directing pilots and we would be executive producing them. There’s sci-fi, there’s horror, there’s one that I guess would be [a] sci fi-horror futuristic kind of thing. They’re all across the board. I think they’ll fulfill what people expect out of him by also being unpredictable.

There is no word yet on what the shows are and what style of horror they’ll be. It’ll be interesting to see if any of them, much less all of them, will actually make it to the small screen.

Carpenter’s last foray onto the small screen were the two episodes he directed for the “Masters of Horror” series, including my personal favorite of the series “Cigarette Burns”.

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Legendary Grimdark ‘Warhammer 40,000’ Artist John Blanche Has Passed Away at 78

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In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).

Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.

While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.

The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.

Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.

We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.

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