‘True Blood’ and ‘Six Feet Under’ creator, Alan Ball, is producing and directing a pilot for another dark comedy for HBO about his favourite theme: death. The writer of the Oscar-winning screenplay for American Beauty (narrated by a dead man) and creator of one series set in a funeral home and another set in a Southern American hick town (both of which feature regular speaking roles by deceased characters), has developed a new series based on the wickedly talented Charlie Huston’s 2009 crime noir novel The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death.
Ball told Deadline that the show, titled All Signs of Death, is about a twenty-something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself entangled with a murder mystery, a femme fatale and the loose ends of his own past.
It would be virtually impossible for Ball – or anyone else – to create a show that could possibly top the singular brilliance of Six Feet Under, but based on both his televisual efforts in the past and the lax censorship constraints afforded to premium cable programing, expect the usual high doses of profanity, graphic violence and T & A.
Via Deadline
