Movie Reboot: Shudder Greenlights Creepshow Series Helmed By ‘The Walking Dead’s Greg Nicotero Update: New Trailer!

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Shudder Greenlights ‘Creepshow’ Series Helmed By ‘The Walking Dead’s Greg Nicotero
by Denise Petski
July 18, 2018 8:44am



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Creepshow is coming to AMC Networks’ Shudder. The premium streaming service has given the green light to a Creepshow TV series, based on the iconic anthology film written by Stephen King and directed by George Romero, for premiere in 2019. The Walking Dead helmer Greg Nicotero is attached to direct, executive produce and oversee the show’s creative elements.

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The 1982 film, with stars such as Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson and Adrienne Barbeau, spawned two sequel films and a spin-off comic.

Producers say the new Creepshow series will fulfill the promise of the original film’s tagline “The Most Fun You’ll Ever Have Being Scared.” Each episode of the anthology series will tell original fun and scary stories, and will be helmed by a different director, with Nicotero directing the first episode and his Oscar- and multiple Emmy-winning company KNB EFX Group Inc. handling the creature and make-up fx.



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“Creepshow is one of the most beloved and iconic horror anthologies from two masters of the genre, George A. Romero and Stephen King,” said Shudder general manager Craig Engler, who made the announcement. “We’re thrilled to continue their legacy with another master of horror, Greg Nicotero, as we bring a new Creepshow TV series exclusively to Shudder members.”

Nicotero, who met his mentor, makeup legend Tom Savini, while visiting the set of Creepshow and who later worked with Romero on Day of the Dead and Creepshow 2 added, “Creepshow is a project very close to my heart! It is one of those titles that embraces the true spirit of horror…thrills and chills celebrated in one of its truest art forms, the comic book come to life! I’m honored to continue the tradition in the ‘spirit’ in which it was created.”

Shudder’s Creepshow will be produced by the Cartel with Monster Agency Productions, Taurus Entertainment, and Striker Entertainment: Stan Spry, Jeff Holland, and Eric Woods are executive producers for the Cartel; Greg Nicotero and Brian Witten are executive producers for Monster Agency Productions; Robert Dudelson, James Dudelson and Jordan Kizwani are executive producers for Taurus Entertainment; and Russell Binder executive produces and Marc Mostman is co-executive producer for Striker Entertainment.

“The Cartel is excited to bring the iconic Creepshow brand to Shudder as a series. There is no better person to be the creative force behind this new production than Greg Nicotero,” said Spry. “His experience and leadership will ensure that the series is of the highest quality and will help to excite horror fans around the world.”

 

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HE NEW CREEPSHOW SERIES WILL FINALLY ADAPT ONE OF STEPHEN KING'S MOST DISTURBING STORIES
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Last summer we learned that special effects master and The Walking Dead director/producer Greg Nicotero was developing a new version of Creepshow — the horror anthology film from George A. Romero and Stephen King — as a series on horror streaming service Shudder. Now, we've learned that the new Creepshow will finally give us a major adaptation of one of King's most disturbing short stories.

Production Weekly reports one of the segments of the new anthology series will be called "Survivor Type," and unless there's some kind of insane and very unlikely coincidence, that would mean Nicotero is adapting the King story of the same name. Longtime King readers will know what that means, but if you're not familiar with the story...well, just hope you have a strong stomach.

Originally published in the 1982 anthology Terrors and later collected in King's 1985 short story volume Skeleton Crew, "Survivor Type" is one of King's more realistic horror tales, and takes the form of diary entries from a surgeon named Richard Pine. Pine, having disgraced himself as a surgeon, is attempting to smuggle heroin onboard a cruise ship, which suddenly sinks and leaves him stranded on an island with no food. After breaking his ankle, Pine amputates his foot and decides to eat it to survive. With few tools other than his own surgical skills and heroin to dull the pain, Pine tries to figure out what other parts of his body he can live without in order to stay alive on the island.

The diary entires offer flashbacks to Pine's days as a doctor, so we can see how far he's fallen, and the horror kicks in as his mental state begins to waste away along with his body. It's exactly as disturbing as it sounds, and even the most jaded of King fans can still come away with a chill after reading it.

Because of its rather gruesome subject matter, "Survivor Type" hasn't really been given a major stage for an adaptation just yet, aside from a couple of short films. In Nicotero's hands, and with Shudder's wide audience, the story will finally get its due in front of droves of hungry horror fans. Just, you know, bring a strong stomach.

Creepshow is expected to arrive on Shudder later this year.

 

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Greg Nicotero’s Episode For ‘Creepshow’ Might Be A Stephen King Classic
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We know that Greg Nicotero will be the creative director and producer for Shudder’s upcoming ‘Creepshow‘ television series and now we might have found out details on the one episode he’ll be directing too. Famous for his work on ‘The Walking Dead’, Nicotero is slated to direct the first episode of this new horror anthology series that will have multiple works penned by Stephen King, Joe Hill, and others. It sounds like he’ll be taking one of King’s most notable short works titled “Survivor Type.”

The short story was originally published in 1982 in ‘Terrors’ but wasn’t widely read until he later released it in his short story collection ‘Skeleton Crew.’

For those who haven’t read “Survivor Type,” it follows the story of a surgeon named Richard Pine. Pine isn’t working for the betterment of society though he is also helping to smuggle large amounts of heroin. When we meet the character, he is on a cruise ship that sinks in the Pacific. Now, Pine is stranded on an island and is keeping a diary of how he lives which go from bad to worse as we follow what the character has to do to survive. Considering that Pine is a surgeon and he is the only source of food on the item, it isn’t hard to guess how bad things get when he becomes desperate to eat something.

The story was previously adapted in a 2011 short film by the same name as well as another iteration in 2012. This will be the first time a wide release of a live-action version of the story will be brought to life. With Nicotero’s fantastic work on special effects, it will also be a visually disturbing tale to watch.

Are you looking forward to Greg Nicotero’s first episode of ‘Creepshow’? Do you think that “Survivor Type” will be a horrifying episode to watch? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

 

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Damn. Never heard of Survivor Type.

 

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Shudder's Creepshow horror series to feature stories by Stephen King, Joe Hill, and Joe Lansdale

CLARK COLLIS
February 09, 2019 at 07:29 PM EST
Shudder announced today that the streaming service’s upcoming horror anthology show Creepshow will feature an adaptation of an as-yet-unnamed story by Stephen King as well as segments which adapt tales by Joe Hill and Joe Lansdale, among other authors. Creepshow is based on the 1982 film of the same name, which was directed by George Romero with a screenplay by King. The cast of Creepshow included Hill, who is King’s son.

It was also announced that directors on the six-episode season will include David Bruckner (The Ritual), Roxanne Benjamin (Southbound, the upcoming Body at Brighton Rock), and Rob Schrab (Community). It was previously announced that the series’ executive producer Greg Nicotero will be directing on the show. In addition, John Harrison, who was the first assistant director for Romero on the original Creepshow movie, will be directing a story he co-wrote with Nicotero. Production has begun on Creepshow in Atlanta, GA. The show will premiere later this year.

“Having the opportunity to embrace the spirit of Creepshow and expand on what George and Steve created is, without a doubt, a lifelong dream come true,” said Nicotero in a statement. “Having grown up in Pittsburgh, Creepshow lives in a special place for me. I had the good fortune to visit the set as a teenager. I was able to look behind the curtain of filmmaking, and it changed me forever. I’m honored to continue telling the stories in the ‘comic book come to life’ world that fans fell in love with. This fall we will be ‘opening the coffin’ and unleashing upon the world our demented and ghastly stories, crafted by the best in business.”

“We’re thrilled to have Greg Nicotero on board to transform Creepshow into a series, featuring stories by giants in the horror field like Stephen King and Joe Hill, as well as a fantastic lineup of writers, directors, and special effects wizards,” said Shudder GM Craig Engler. “This a dream series for fans of the original movies and for anyone who wants to experience ‘the most fun you can have being scared.’”

 

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Creepshow EP Greg Nicotero pays tribute to George A. Romero and Stephen King

By Dalton Ross
September 25, 2019 at 11:30 AM EDT
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There’s a reason the movie Creepshow is considered legendary in the minds of horror fans. The 1982 anthology film featuring five tales of terror brought together two titans of the genre in director and godfather of the modern zombie genre George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) and writer Stephen King (author of every scary book you ever read, making his screenwriting debut).

Now, Creepshow has returned in the form of an anthology series that will debut Thursday on the Shudder VOD service, and with the perfect person at the helm to bring it back from the dead. Greg Nicotero may be best known as the director/producer/zombie makeup guru on The Walking Dead, but he first got his start as a teenage horror fan visiting the set of Creepshow in his backyard of Pittsburgh. He then got his very first job in the business working on Romero’s Day of The Dead and was part of the crew on 1987’s Creepshow 2.

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As the guy running the latest incarnation, Nicotero pays proper homage to the original. Not only is the first entry an adaptation of a King short story (“Gray Matter”), but appearing in the installment is none other than original Creepshow star Adrienne Barbeau. Fans will also delight at the return of the Creep mascot, the eye-popping comic book transitions, and the franchise’s ability to deftly mix horror and humor. We spoke to Nicotero to get the scoop on how he looked to the past to plot his next generation of terror.

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I know you got your start with Creepshow director George Romero on Day of the Dead and you worked on Creepshow 2. So tell me about reviving this horror anthology franchise for a new generation.
GREG NICOTERO: Creepshow is a project that’s very personal to me. When I was 16 years old, when I first met George Romero, he was nice enough to invite me down to his office. George, his crew was always like a family. So when they were filming Creepshow, I was invited to the set and visited as a horror fan only. I had no idea that my career was going to divert from my then current path as a doctor into the path that I’m on now.


So George really gave me this amazing opportunity to visit the set, and that’s where I met [horror makeup guru] Tom Savini. So everything in my life changed because of Creepshow. I thought myself very fortunate and very lucky. I didn’t live in Hollywood. I didn’t live in Los Angeles. I lived in Pittsburgh. And to realize that movies were made right in my backyard sort of made it almost instantly more accessible to me.

Imagine if you had grown up somewhere else and George Romero is not inviting you on set and changing the course of your life.
That really did change everything. And what I took away from it when I first met him was he loves movies. He really found such a tremendous source of inspiration from a lot of different films, and he just loved it. That kind of turned on a light bulb in my head. I always imagined that this was just kind of a hobby and something that I loved and I admired. But George made me realize that this was something that I could potentially turn into a career.

So a couple years later, when Day of the Dead was green lit, George offered me a job, and I didn’t hesitate. I had like a three-year time period between Creepshow and Day of the Dead where I got to be really good friends with Tom Savini. And I was getting glimpses into the magic of special effects and filmmaking. And so when Day of the Dead came up, I was like, “Okay, I can’t miss this opportunity once it came up. And here I am.”

You’re the perfect person to bring Creepshow back. And you bring it back in the perfect way, starting with the Stephen King adaptation that you directed. How great is that in terms of having all these elements coming back together?
The original Creepshow was developed out of pure inspiration and the fact that Steve and George really did it to pay tribute to EC comics and the stuff that they loved. So I feel like for me it’s really my chance to tell stories based on the stuff that I love. And it couldn’t be Creepshow without a Stephen King story, so he was one of the first people that we reached out to, and he was like, “Yeah, man, sure. That sounds great. Love to have you take a look at a couple stories.”

The most exciting aspect of the show is every single story is different. Some of them are suspenseful, some of them are really dark and twisted, some of them are funny, some of them are very lighthearted. Every episode of the show gives you a different experience. And that’s what was great about the original Creepshow. You think about “The Crate” episode, which was this straight monster movie. And then you have the “Jordy Verrill” episode, which is a little campier and sort of wackier.

They all had a different personality to them, and that was all paying tribute to EC comic stuff. When we were developing the stories, there were a lot of stories that I really, really liked, because number one, either they were really outrageous or they took you on this great journey, and they all had to be tales of morality, because that’s what EC comics was all about. Stephen King’s “Gray Matter” is really a story about an alcoholic and his codependent relationship with his son. So you take that great morality story and put Adrienne Barbeau and Giancarlo Esposito and Tobin Bell and Jesse Boyd and Christopher Nathan in there and it’s the perfect recipe.

As you mentioned, Adrienne Barbeau, obviously from the original Creepshow, is in this installment, which you directed. How did that come about, getting Adrienne back on board?
One of the advantages that I have is I’ve worked with most of the people that are in the show in one capacity or another. I had met Adrienne through John Carpenter years ago. So I knew Adrienne and had met her several times. She actually had said, “Listen, if there’s anything that you think I would be right for, I’d love to do it.” She was really excited about it.

And then some of the other parts came about because I had worked with Tobin on a couple projects and then Giancarlo, of course, on Breaking Bad. These guys were super excited about it, just popping in for a couple of days and shooting, and then we were able to get David Arquette and Tricia Helfer and Cailey Fleming, who stars in The Walking Dead. She was the first actor that I cast in Creepshow, because they read a story called “The House of the Head” by Josh Malerman, who had written Bird Box. And I told Cailey on set of the season finale last year, “Listen, if this story goes, there’s no one else in the world that could play this part but you.” And she’s magnificent.

You filmed this off-season from when you film The Walking Dead, so did you have a lot of the TWD crew working on both shows?
I had a good portion of the camera department. Jeff January, the assistant director, of course Jake Garber and Gino Crognale, the makeup team. A lot of those guys came over. Everybody involved knew that it was going to be low budget and we were going to have a short amount of time. So this was kind of like guerilla filmmaking. We had three and a half days to film each segment. And that’s very different than when you’re shooting on The Walking Dead and you have standing sets and you have cast that returns every episode. On Creepshow, we had a new cast, we had new sets, we had new script, we had in a lot of cases new directors every three and a half days. So it was literally a marathon.

What about the importance of the transitions with the Creep and the comic book element? That’s really invoking the original Creepshow, so how did you want to approach that?
I always felt that Creepshow was ahead of its time. I thought that the transitions in going from live action to the comic book pages was super fun. I was able to reach out to a lot of the original artists and animators that had worked on Creepshow to provide some little interstitial pieces here and there just to bridge the stories together. In the original movie you had kind of a wraparound story. The comic book gets thrown into a trashcan and then we follow the comic book as it blows down the street and into the sewer and then the pages turn.

But I felt like for our purposes it was really more about just playing up the fun of the old ads in the back of Famous Monsters, where you could buy masks and toys and hats and Super 8 movies. I had a lot of fun working with my artists in designing those pages and even designing the title pages to each episode, which always shows the Creep, and for “Gray Matter” he’s drinking a can of Harrow Supreme, which is the beer Stephen King created for the episode.

I just felt like that was the opportunity to have a lot of fun. And I was really fortunate, because I was able to get a lot of fantastic artists, a lot of guys that worked for Heavy Metal, and a lot of guys who have worked for Marvel to come in and draw some of these comic book pages, and then put all the pages together so when the wind blows and the pages turn and it takes you into the next story.

 

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Bump. First ep is up.

 

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How Greg Nicotero shot 2 full seasons of Creepshow during the pandemic

Season 2 of the horror anthology show premieres on Shudder April 1.
By Clark Collis
March 22, 2021 at 01:40 PM EDT


Real-life terrors appeared to best the fictional variety last March when the pandemic caused work on season 2 of Shudder's horror anthology series Creepshow to stop after just one day of shooting. "We had prepped the first two episodes, and we had actually shot on one day, and that was it," says Creepshow executive producer Greg Nicotero. "We closed the stages, we sent everybody home. We just thought it was going to be a couple of weeks."

That turned out not to be the case and those "couple of weeks" turned into months. But Nicotero was not prepared to give up on shooting season 2 of the show, which is inspired by the George Romero-directed, Stephen King-written 1982 horror movie, and by the summer of 2020 the EP was once again preparing to go into production on the Atlanta-shot series. "We started to gear back up again in July," he says. "Everybody was taking a big leap of faith. Nobody had established the way production was going to work. Everybody had protocols, but nobody had done it yet — we were one of the first people to do it. We had a very safe set, and the protocols worked, and it was very successful in keeping the crew safe and still turning out a really good TV show."

Keith David in 'Creepshow' season 2

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Season 2 of Creepshow premieres on Shudder April 1 with two Nicotero-directed tales of terror — the Kevin Dillon-starring "Model Kid" — about a boy who is obsessed with model toys from scary movies — and "Public Television of the Dead," whose cast includes Ted Raimi.

"Season 1 was all about me paying respect to the legacy of Stephen King and George Romero," says Nicotero. "Season 2, I really worked on developing stories that were personal to me. 'Model Kid' is a very personal story, because it has a lot of elements of my childhood, of me growing up loving monsters and sort of retreating into this fantasy world of model kits and magazines and watching Super 8 movies on the wall. John Esposito, who wrote that episode, had that same experience. That was in the day where people would judge you and look at you differently for being a monster kid, being a nerd. I was really proud to direct that episode and to tell that story."

"Public Television of the Dead," meanwhile, finds the EP and special effects artist paying tribute to Raimi's director brother Sam, with whom Nicotero worked on 1987's Evil Dead 2 and 1992's Army of Darkness. "'Public Television of the Dead' is very much a love letter to Sam Raimi," says Nicotero. "I wanted to say thanks for creating this cool universe of possessed people. The episode really is about showing how much I love what Sam has done and how grateful I am."

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The line-up of season 2 talent also includes directors Axelle Carolyn (The Haunting of Bly Manor) and Joe Lynch (Mayhem), writers Michael Rousselet and Erik Sandoval from the 5-Second Films comedy troupe, and familiar horror faces Ali Larter (Final Destination), C. Thomas Howell (The Hitcher), Justin Long (Drag Me to Hell), Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), and Ashley Laurence. "Ashley and I have been friends for probably 15 years," Nicotero says of the actress, who is famous for battling Cenobites in the Hellraiser franchise. "When we got into season 2, Ashley was one of the first people that we reached out to. The nice thing was Barbara Crampton came in right after Ashley left. We have an absolutely magnificent cast."

In February, it was announced that Shudder had renewed Creepshow for a third season and the EP reveals that this new run of shows has already been shot. "Through the course of the pandemic, I was developing scripts, I was writing material, and by the time we went into production we had an entire slate of scripts in the hopper ready to go," says Nicotero, who is also an executive producer on The Walking Dead. "That gave us the opportunity to shoot two seasons' worth of material within a six-month period, which is pretty insane. Right now, I'm in post-production on season 3, and finishing mixing on season 2, and prepping to direct on the Walking Dead, all at the same time."

 

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Had no idea they made a creep show series

 

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The Creepshow series season 1 and 2 had nice cameos and decent moments. I love the two movies, the raft from the second movie my favorite one is the crate. It was kinda wild as it one of my favorites Cant wait for Season 3

 

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The Creepshow series season 1 and 2 had nice cameos and decent moments love the movies the raft form part 2 my fav the the crate was kinda wild as my favorites they had a Christmas theme one that had some nice comedy bits Can't Wait for Season 3

Not even ONE period? No comma?

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Did anybody watch season 1? If so, how was it?

 

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Not even ONE period? No comma?

Nigga if yune

First, calm down bro I wrote it real quick and I fixed it not that serious.

 

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Season 3
Debuts on amc September 23, 2022

 

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I'm in can't wait for this

 

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Season 3
Debuts on amc September 23, 2022

 

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Season 3
Debuts on amc September 23, 2022

Huh? This season came out last year on September 23rd. Are you saying it will re-air on AMC that day?

 

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Huh? This season came out last year on September 23rd. Are you saying it will re-air on AMC that day?

Yes.

The series debuts on Shudder first, then amc a year later.

Why they do that? I have no idea.

 

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Yes.

The series debuts on Shudder first, then amc a year later.

Why they do that? I have no idea.

Yeah. Shudder does that with the show Slashed. Airs there first and then Netflix

 

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Just finished season 3.

Decent season.

The Arab chick in episode 4 was looking fine with her big natural boobs.

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The Raft (Unreleased Comic Book Story from Creepshow 2) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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To this day, I refuse to get in a lake or a pond because of Creepshow’s raft story. Movie traumatized me as a child.

 

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To this day, I refuse to get in a lake or a pond because of Creepshow’s raft story. Movie traumatized me as a child.

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Artist Kelley Jones digs up his unpublished CREEPSHOW 2 comic story just in time for the franchise’s revival

Legendary artist Kelley Jones shared his complete CREEPSHOW 2 comic story from the cancelled movie adaptation. Read it here!

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