The stars and creators of Ghosted stopped by SDCC to premiere their new show. We got to see it and sit down with Adam Scott, Craig Robinson, and the rest of the team to talk about where it’s going.
In Fox’s new paranormal comedy, Ghosted, Leroy Wright (Craig Robinson) and Max Allison (Adam Scott) investigate paranormal activity in Los Angeles. Wright is a skeptic and former LAPD operative who’s been forced out of his position as a detective. Allison is a true believer, former professor and renowned multiverse researcher who fell from grace after he began insisting that his wife was abducted by aliens.
When Agent Kurt Checker disappears, he sends a video to the Bureau Underground, a secret organization who investigates paranormal activity, instructing them to contact Wright and Allison to investigate. The duo are then forced into a partnership that they didn’t sign up for, and into a world that they couldn’t even fathom.
Series stars, Craig Robinson, Adam Scott, Ally Walker (who plays Captain Lafrey of the Bureau Underground), and creators, Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten, came to SDCC to premiere Ghosted, and to talk about both its inception and its future.
The show was obviously hilarious, with Robinson and Scott at the helm, but it was also full of intriguing mythology. Right from the start, Ghosted will keep you guessing just as well as any supernatural, one-hour drama. The team has struck a great balance of comedy, sci-fi, and even a tiny bit of horror!
Only the pilot is complete, right now, but the stars and creators still had a lot to say about how the show got started, and where it will be heading, in the future. Here are a few of the most interesting things we learned from the Ghosted appearance at SDCC!
Los Angeles if sort of a crazy place. We thought, if people were to visit, that’d be a nice place for them to start…from space. We love LA, it has this timeless quality. Pretending things that are familiar to you could also be something paranormal was also a fun idea. But we’re also hoping that the show will span the country and be in different places all the time.
- Adam Scott and Craig Robertson have been attached to the lead roles ever since the project began. Gormican initially approached Robinson, who immediately thought of Adam for his opposite. So if you, like everyone else, were thinking that these two are absolutely perfect for this show, you couldn’t be more right!
- The show will begin in Los Angeles, but Gormican and Etten are hoping that it will get to travel as the mythology evolves. “Los Angeles is sort of a crazy place,” Gormican said. “We thought, if people were to visit, that’d be a nice place for them to start…from space. We love LA. It has this timeless quality. Pretending things that are familiar to you could also be something paranormal was also a fun idea. But we’re also hoping that the show will span the country and be in different places all the time.”
- When asked how the show would handle the paranormal effects, Gormican stated that it would be a sort of “throwback filmmaking where we do a mix of practical effects and CGI.”
- Ghosted will be a mix of serialized and episodic story-telling. There is an intriguing, overarching mythology, but there will also usually be a “monster of the week.”
- Despite being called Ghosted, there aren’t actually any ghosts in the pilot episode! “We just thought it was a cool title,” Gormican admitted. In reality, the paranormal aspect will encompass many different “monsters,” including werewolves, aliens, zombies, and maybe even a Yeti. However, Etten did assure us that “ghosts will appear!”
- Ally Walker plays Captain Lafrey of the Bureau Underground, which investigates paranormal activity. She describes her character as “a hardass.” Don’t worry though, the boys don’t get to have all the fun. “I think the situation makes everything funny, because it’s so unreal,” she told us, “so I get to be funny too.”
- Gormican and Etten referenced Ghostbusters and The X-Files as two of their biggest sources of inspiration. Etten said that, “Ghostbusters is the one who does it best in terms of being funny and real and scary,” but he also said that the more recent, This is the End acted as inspiration for him. To this, Robinson replied, “I was in that.”
- Scott offered some different points of inspiration, stating that, “if Stranger Things and Midnight Run had a baby, that’s Ghosted. For me, that baby would be my favorite baby.”
- Onscreen, Robinson plays the skeptic and Scott plays the believer. In real life, those roles are completely reversed. When asked if they believe in ghosts, Robinson cryptically replied by saying, “I’ve had some experiences, yes. Nothing that needs to be shared right now.” Scott said “I don’t believe in any of it,” but later went on to joke by saying, “I feel like I’ve had some close calls, abduction wise. I have no concrete evidence, it’s just a feeling.”
- Amber Stevens West of The Carmichael Show was recently cast as a replacement for one of the characters in the pilot. In the pilot episode, Edi Patterson played the quirky tech-enthusiast, Delilah, where West will be playing a weapons expert.
- The characters of Leroy and Max will get to explore the “multiverse,” which will likely include meeting different versions of themselves.
- The team has worked hard to find a good balance between comedy and mythology. Scott mentioned that, “while editing the pilot, we often found ourselves taking jokes out. There’s a fine line there and you can tip over to silly, and then the scares won’t be scary, or the stakes of someone being chased go away.”
Watch the trailer for Ghosted here, and tune in when the show premieres on Fox on October 1, 8:30/7:30c!
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