Alan Ball is one of my favorite people in film today. He was the leading force behind some of my favorite movies and shows including American Beauty, Six Feet Under, and True Blood.

And now he’s ready to impress us again with his new upcoming series, All Signs of Death. The series is based on Charlie Huston’s novel The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death. Boy, that’s a mouthful.

The story focuses on a twenty-something man who discovers his talent as a crime scene cleaner. And, of course, everything becomes chaos.

Ball will act as executive producer and director, and author Huston will write the plot. I love it that Ball is collaborating with Huston—I always think that an author should be totally involved if his or her work is translated to film or television.

Ball says of the project: “All Signs has a hard noir feel, but it’s also ironic; it’s graphic and gritty but human and very moving at the same time—it is able to capture all those elements in a very distinctive tone…We’re going to try to go against the grain, away from the overlit, stylized noir for a more frantic, contemporary, naturalistic style.”

If Ball wasn’t gay, I’d pursue him just to get an insider’s look at that mind of his. And no, I don’t mean I’d stalk him…I’d just make him fall in love with me and share all of his secrets. Mwahahaha!