"Cornetto Trilogy" duo Nick Frost and Simon Pegg are set to write and star in Amazon Prime's new paranormal horror-comedy series Truth Seekers. Frost and Pegg first began working together as stars of the ‘90s British comedy show Spaced, which centered on a group of 20-something North Londoners dealing with economic hardship. Since then they’ve gone on to become a bona fide comedy team, with their latest pairing coming in 2018’s action-comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez, about a British boarding school going to war with hideous creatures unleashed by a nearby fracking site.
Of course, of all Frost and Pegg’s many pairings, by far the most famous was their extended team-up in writer-director Edgar Wright’s so-called “Cornetto Trilogy.” The thematically linked trio of films began with 2004’s comedy-horror hit Shaun of the Dead, in which Frost and Pegg played a pair of slackers caught up in the zombie apocalypse. The collaboration continued with 2007’s Hot Fuzz, a send-up of hard boiled police movies, and continued with 2013’s apocalyptic friendship comedy The World’s End. Frost and Pegg also came together to co-write and star in 2011’s Paul, about a pair of English comic book fans traveling across America who encounter an alien from Area 51.
For their latest team up, Frost and Pegg will once again share writing duties as well as holding down the two starring roles. As reported by Variety, the pair is headed to Amazon Prime with Truth Seekers, a comedy-horror series about two paranormal investigators named Gus and Dave whose efforts to track down and film ghostly activity all across the UK leads them to unwittingly uncover a vast conspiracy that could ultimately threaten all of humanity.
Frost and Pegg will co-write the series together with veteran TV scribes Nat Saunders and James Serafinowicz. The show is set to run for eight half-hour episodes, with no premiere date yet announced. The series is the first to be produced by Frost and Pegg’s production company Stolen Picture, which was established in 2017 with financial backing from Sony.
With Truth Seekers, Amazon again dives into the supernatural comedy genre after having a solid success with this year’s Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett adaptation Good Omens. However, Truth Seekers differs from Good Omens in that it’s an original idea that doesn’t have a built in audience outside of fans of Frost and Pegg. The premise of course sounds quite a bit like Ghostbusters, with other echoes of popular paranormal investigator reality shows like The Ghost Adventures and Ghost Hunters, but with the Frost-Pegg stamp on it, Truth Seekers will no doubt go into some very satiric and possibly darkly outrageous areas as well.
Source: Variety