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Amblin Developing a TV Series Based On an “Original Fantasy Idea By Steven Spielberg”
Over on Los Angeles Times this week you’ll find a nice little profile on “the growing television ambitions” of Steven Spielberg‘s Amblin Partners, highlighting a handful of small screen projects that the company is developing. Among them are a reboot of “Amazing Stories” and a TV adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, as well as a mystery fantasy project.
The site notes, “Amblin has set aside more than $50 million in equity and debt financing to fund televisions productions, according to people familiar with the firm’s finances. The company plans to invest in up to three of its own shows a year.”
“Early efforts include an original fantasy idea by Spielberg that the company is developing with Michael Bay’s company Platinum Dunes,” they tease.
“There are limits both financially and creatively to only being producers for hire,” Spielberg himself said in a statement to the site. “By financing our own shows, we will have the ability to grow the business and better control the creative process to help us achieve our goals.”
At this time, we have no idea what this fantasy series is about. Stay tuned.
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“I’m the Grim Reaper” – Sam Raimi Teams with ’10 Cloverfield Lane’ Writers on Gory, Funny Webtoon Adaptation
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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