Robin Thede, Bridget Stokes Reteaming For Amazon Zombie Pic ‘Killing It’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: A Black Girl Sketch Present‘s Bridget Stokes and Robin Thede are reteaming on Killing it — a zombie horror-comedy that Stokes will direct for Amazon Studios, from a script by Thede.

The upcoming movie sees 4 finest pals try and redeem their faculty reputations by touring to the SpelHouse homecoming. Their quest for vindication turns into a struggle for survival when a zombie apocalypse begins to terrorize the nation. Thede is producing for her firm For Higher or Phrases, together with Jax Media’s John Hodges, Brooke Posch, and Tony Hernandez.

Stokes is a author, director and producer who this yr claimed the Emmy for Excellent Directing for a Selection Collection for her work on HBO’s critically acclaimed sketch comedy sequence A Black Girl Sketch Present, changing into the primary Black lady to beat the class. She directed each Season 3 episode of the sequence created by Thede and serves as its co-executive producer.

Stokes additionally not too long ago served as co-executive producer and directed a number of episodes of Apple’s Good day, Jack! The Kindness Present. She’s maybe in any other case finest recognized for steering and producing the function Boy Genius, starring Black-ish‘s Miles Brown, which earned her the Mira Nair Award for Rising Feminine Filmmaker on the Harlem Movie Pageant, having additionally beforehand produced Netflix’s options The Misplaced Husband and The Rachel Divide, and the indie drama The Volunteer. She is represented by UTA and Zero Gravity Administration.

Thede is a five-time Emmy nominee who along with being the primary and solely Black lady to create an Emmy-nominated sketch sequence with A Black Girl Sketch Present, serves as its showrunner, exec producer, author and star. She not too long ago signed a multiple-year total cope with HBO, HBO Max, and Warner Bros and is repped by WME and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.