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‘What We Do In the Shadows’ Police Spinoff Retitled to “Wellington Paranormal”
While Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement have yet to script their What We Do in the Shadows spinoff, We’re Wolves, they have started to develop a television series based on the film’s police force.
Last year it was reported that the duo had moved forward on “Paranormal Event Response Unit”, a new television series that will focus on the original film’s easily-manipulable police officers, Mike Minogue and Karen O’Leary. The series will follow the duo, as well as Cori Gonzalez-Macuer’s Nick, as they try to keep Wellington safe from spooky beasties.
In a new report, the show has been retitled to “Wellington Paranormal” for it’s planned six 30-minute episodes that will be hitting New Zealand channel TVNZ 2 in 2018.
In a new interview, Clement explained how Wellington is plagued with paranormal activity.
“It’s surprising how many demonic possessions there are,” he told Stuff. “There was a very tense situation at the Bucket Fountain – I can tell you it involved a possible Gateway from Hell. We’re very concerned about this kind of stuff.”We had an incident with some zombies which got pretty tense there,” he added. “So luckily they’re taken care of. A couple of crew members were turned into zombies – I think. It’s hard to tell sometimes.
“Also, some very worrying things have happened in Lower Hutt as well. There was a party in Khandallah that got a bit out of hand, too, with some undead member of the Wellington public.”
After seeing Waititi’s awesome Thor: Ragnarok, how can you now be excited for anything these two comedians put their hands on?
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is reteaming with Starz on a TV series adaptation of supernatural crime graphic novel Bone Parish, Deadline reports.
Diane Ademu-John (Dune: Prophecy) and Declan de Barra (The Witcher: Blood Origin) will co-showrun the project and executive produce.
The show’s logline reads: “In the dark underworld of New Orleans, the Winters family builds an empire around a powerful new drug—crafted from the ashes of the dead—that grants users vivid, haunting visions of the past. But as demand surges, rival factions, deadly secrets, and supernatural forces close in, pulling them deeper into a violent and inescapable nightmare of crime, horror, and family legacy.”
The graphic novel by writer Cullen Bunn (The Empty Man) and artist Jonas Scharf was published by BOOM! Studios; the publisher’s Stephen Christy and Mette Norkjaer will executive produce.
“I’ve always been drawn to stories that break the mold, and Bone Parish does exactly that. It takes crime, family, and power, and mixes it with something dark and supernatural, in a way that feels fresh. Exploring what happens when the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead, this story has incredible depth, and we’re building a series that’s going to keep audiences locked in from the first episode,” Jackson said in a statement.
“We love going on new journeys with Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson, and this one is unlike anything we’ve done before: a world steeped in horror and the supernatural, but still grounded in the family and crime storytelling our audience can’t get enough of. It’s a wild, bold swing, and exactly the kind of risk we want to be taking,” said Kathryn Busby, President, Original Programming at Starz.
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