It has been over a year and a half since we first heard that SHAUN OF THE DEAD stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost were going to be producing a horror comedy series called Truth Seekers through Stolen Picture, a company they formed with producing partner Miles Ketley. At that time, there was no indication that Pegg and Frost would be starring in the series as well, but that has turned out to be the case, making this project all the more enticing.
It certainly proved to be enticing to Amazon Prime Video, as that streaming service has picked up the international rights to Truth Seekers.
The first season of the show is expected to consist of eight half-hour episodes, which Pegg and Frost are writing with Nat Saunders and James Serafinowicz.
Pegg will be playing a character named Dave, but no details were revealed about him. Frost's character is Gus,
one half of a ghost-hunting duo who team up to uncover and film paranormal sightings across the U.K. in the series. They stake out haunted churches, underground bunkers, and abandoned hospitals using an array of homemade ghost-detecting gizmos and share their adventures on an online channel. Their supernatural experiences grow more frequent, terrifying, and even deadly as the pair begin to uncover a conspiracy that could threaten the entire human race.
I would assume that Dave and Gus are the ghost-hunting duo, but maybe Dave has his own thing going on.
Described as a "mad tale of paranormal conspiracy", Truth Seekers will begin filming in September with Jim Field Smith directing.