Gilbert Adler kept the Crypt Keeper alive, as it were, owing a great deal of his accomplishment to his antecedent, the late writer/producer #24 Milton Subotsky. Where Subotsky first brought EC Comics stories to the screen with the original Tales from the Crypt in 1972, Adler continued the tradition through the 1980s and ‘90s. Adler started by directing the Crypt Keeper sequences in HBO’s “Tales from the Crypt” television show in 1989, directing two full episodes in 1992 and 1993, and writing several episodes between ‘91 and ‘96. During this time, he produced over 60 episodes of “Tales from the Crypt” for HBO. In 1995, he directed Crypt Keeper sequences for the big screen in Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, which he also produced. He soon directed, produced, and wrote the screenplay for his own feature length Crypt film Bordello of Blood in 1996. In subsequent years he has served as the executive producer for DC/Vertigo’s Constantine (produced by #16 Lauren Shuler Donner, #8 Benjamin Melniker and #5 Michael E. Uslan) released in 2005, and as a producer of Superman Returns, also produced, directed, and co-written by #9 Bryan Singer, released in 2006. He is reportedly set to produce the Superman sequel, Superman: Man of Steel, again with Singer, scheduled for release in June of 2009. He may also be the executive producer of the sequel to Constantine (also with Shuler Donner producing) if the film is ever actually made.
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