Robin Thede is penning Killing It, a zombie horror-comedy for Amazon Studios. She’s re-teaming with A Black Lady Sketch Show‘s Bridget Stokes who will direct the feature. Thede first introduced this project in 2021 and it was described it as as Shaun of the Dead meets Girls Trip.
Killing It centers on four best friends who head to Spelhouse homecoming to redeem their college reputations. However their quest for vindication instead turns into a fight for survival when a zombie apocalypse begins to terrorize the country.
Thede is producing for her company For Better or Words, along with Jax Media’s John Hodges, Brooke Posch, and Tony Hernandez.
Stokes is a writer, director and producer. Earlier this year she won the Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series for her work on Thede’s A Black Lady Sketch Show — becoming the first Black woman to win in that category. She directed every Season 3 episode of the sketch comedy series and also serves as its co-executive producer.
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Thede is a five-time Emmy nominee who in addition to being the first and only Black woman to create an Emmy-nominated sketch series with A Black Lady Sketch Show, serves as its showrunner, exec producer, writer and star. She recently signed a multiple-year overall deal with HBO, HBO Max, and Warner Bros and is repped by WME and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.