Greg Nicotero is Bringing Horror NovelSwan Songto TV Life

Longtime repulsion alumGreg Nicotero , of The Walking Dead andCreepshowfame , has found his next project to undertake : a tv set adjustment of Robert McCammon’sSwan Song .

PerDeadline , Nicotero will executive grow the upcoming serial through his product company Monster Agency . He ’ll also be tapped to direct the fender installment , which is currently on the search for a writer . In a press release for the show , Nicotero called it a “ [ perfect ] time to delve into this world . [ McCammon ’s ] story of endurance in a world forever changed by political mistrust and international intrigue intertwined with a supernatural force has always been one of my darling . ”

Released in June 1987 , Swan Song was set in America in the wake of a atomic warfare between the US and Soviet Union . The Holy Scripture then concentrate on a act of survivors , one of whom has index that puts her in the sights of an evil construction up an army of followers around the land . After its freeing , it tie with Stephen King ’s miserableness for the 1987 Bram Stoker award and was the first of McCammon ’s works to make it on the New York Times bestseller list .

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In that same statement , Steve Barnett , Alan Powell and Vicky Patel — who are co - executive producing through their Monarch Media company — telephone McCammon ’s novel “ fabulously compelling , and unlike anything we have realise before in film or video . We ’re very excited to bring this world to living and ca n’t suppose any better partner for the series than Greg and Brian [ Witten ] . ”

At metre of writing , it ’s undecipherable if the Swan Song will go to AMC — which has housed Nicotero ’s TV speculation for over a decade and already has experience withadapting horror novels — or somewhere else .

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