Geekery: New Horror-Comedy by Taika Waititi Coming to Showtime
The premise of The Auteur sounds perfect for fans of horror movies, serial killer movies, outlandish settings, and heaps of satire.
Deadline is reporting that Showtime has ordered several test scripts for the series Taika Waititi and co-writer Peter Warren. Jude Law is stet to star, and Waititi will direct the pilot.
“Based on the graphic novel by Rick Spears, James Callahan and Luigi Anderson, The Auteur is described as a gonzo horror-comedy, a twisted romance and a glamorous, high wire act of biting satire. In it, desperate to make a great horror movie after a massive bomb, a film producer accidentally traps his production on a backlot with a serial killer.”
Spears other work includes Teenagers from Mars, The Pirates of Coney Island (with Image), and Black Metal.
Showtime’s head of scripted programming described the project as “a bloody love letter to the movies that will make you simultaneously die laughing and want to run for your life.” Sounds perfect. I’m not familiar with the comics, but the premise and the names attached make me want to tune in whenever it airs. I am definitely looking forward to more news about this.
