Scott Wampler, the co-host of the favored podcast Kingcast concerning the works of Stephen King, was discovered useless right now at his dwelling in Austin. No particulars have been instantly accessible, together with his age or reason behind demise.
Co-host Eric Vespe posted on-line concerning the information.
“Scott Wampler handed away right now,” he wrote. “He was my pal, co-host, and accomplice in crime. I’m nonetheless in shock. I don’t know many particulars, however I do know it was sudden and he was with pals.”
Horror filmmaker Scott Derrickson known as Wampler “one of many brightest lights on my movie neighborhood,” “all the time participating, very smart and disarmingly humorous.”
The Kingcast podcast invitations well-known artists to debate their selection of works by horrormeister King. Friends have included Elijah Wooden, administrators David Lowery and Guillermo del Toro and even King himself — after a couple of years and 108 episodes.
Wampler proudly recounted the second with King.
“King instructed me to get a life after I requested him a deeply nerdy query concerning the organic relationship between three monsters from numerous novels he’d written,” Wampler mentioned in an interview with the Dallas Observer. “[It was] a direct quote from the outdated SNL sketch the place William Shatner loses his endurance with a bunch of nerdy Star Trek followers. Spoken solely in jest, in fact, however a second so good we singled it out and used it to advertise the episode.”
Wampler and Vespe labored collectively as movie journalists earlier than embarking on the podcast.
“It was like one of many solely issues that Eric felt certified to do a podcast about as a result of he was so well-read, and I had learn all of the books,” Wampler mentioned. “Stephen King books have been one thing we have been already speaking about anyway.”