Like many twentysomething slackers, Sam Oliver is a college dropout who punches in at a warehouse store and lives with his parents, but with one big difference: he's the Devil's bounty hunter, conscripted to retrieve renegade sinners who've escaped from Hell. Sam's parents sold his newborn soul to Satan, and now that he's turned 21, Lucifer collects on the IOU.
Starring Bret Harrison (Grounded for Life, The Loop) as Sam and Ray Wise as the Devil, Reaper is a hybrid of action, fantasy, drama and comedy that gets that delicate balance just right.
Executive producers Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters, who met as assistants on the X-Files, came up with the premise eight years ago and continued to develop the idea and tone. That some may find Reaper reminiscent of Ghostbusters, which Fazekas admits to having seen ""about 5,000 times,"" is not coincidental, but the 2004 flick Shaun of the Dead was even more influential for the creators.
""Here were two ordinary guys who were too hung over to realize the world's been taken over by zombies. I started thinking about these kinds of kids in their twenties who live in a nice suburb and have a nice car and Xbox and all the comforts of home so they're not really motivated to do anything. Why would you leave to live in a crappy apartment downtown? So I kind of married the two ideas together,"" she explains.
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