The two writers and executive producers set to face the horrors of Amazon MGM Studios’ new Poltergeist series have certainly got some experience handling the supernatural—and, yes, I do mean the Supernatural, too. Variety reports that Kalinda Vazquez and Robbie Thompson have signed on as writers, executive producers, and showrunners for the haunted new show (which doesn’t seem to have an official title yet).
Vazquez’s resume includes writing and producing stints on everything from Nikita to Once Upon a Time to Star Trek: Discovery (pictured above), for which she wrote the first season’s final episode. (She was once attached to an upcoming Star Trek film as well, but who knows what the status of that series is at this point.)
Thompson has thirty-eight episodes of Supernatural to his credit; he became a co-executive producer on that series and went on to serve as showrunner for the short-lived spinoff The Winchesters.
Vazquez and Thompson have also both written for comics: She was a writer on America Chavez: Made in the U.S.A., and he has written for a whole pile of characters including Doctor Strange, Silk, and Venom (as well as the comics adaptation of Star Wars: Solo).
The Poltergeist series was announced in October of last year; it’s one of the projects to come out of Amazon’s 2022 purchase of MGM Studios. It’s not at all clear yet what the story of the series will be, and Variety says only that “the show is inspired by the iconic 1982 horror film.” Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment is producing the show, which makes sense; Spielberg came up with the original story and was a co-writer on the Poltergeist screenplay.
