Cable channel AMC is seeing zombies with The Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont. Variety reports that AMC is about to seal a development deal with Darabont to write and direct a series adapting Image Comics’ graphic novel series The Walking Dead. Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead series is about a group of zombie survivors of an apocalypse who seek a safe place to live with the help of a police officer.
Joel Stillerman, AMC’s senior VP of programming, production and original, said: “This is not about zombies popping out of closets. This is a story about survival, and the dynamics of what happens when a group is forced to survive under these circumstances. The world is portrayed in a smart, sophisticated way.”
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um i think i just wet myself with glee
This sounds just too good to be true, a zombie series on AMC developed by Frank Darabont? Oh Hell yeah!
anything with frank darabont attached to it i will tune in for!
Pick up The Walking Dead trade paperbacks…. Its an amazing series.
I am so excited!
If even a little bit of what makes Walking Dead a great read is captured for the series I am in. I would like to see the beginning of the series rewritten. All Kirkman did was steal the opening of 28 Days Later. Instead of a bike messenger in a coma who awakens to a zombie(ok I know not technically zombies) apocalypse Kirkman made it a cop who awakens from a coma to a zombie apocalypse.
Yeah, but I see it as more of a homage than anything and it’s really the only way it could have worked. I say keep the ending…it’s no big deal.
The sheer awesomeness of this news is more than I can handle.
@jr – the waking up to a Zombie-pocolypse is not a unique opening to 28 Days Later, it has happened in lots of books, shows and movies.
please, name one.
day of the triffids
The Walking Dead is the one comic I always read first when I pick up my stack. I can’t wait. I just wonder how far the show will go in comparison to the books which are pretty dark.
I totally agree with you, but I like torturing myself so I read it last.
have you seen Breaking Bad (also on AMC) ?
I’m not worried about AMC not making it dark enough. This channel does not half-ass their original programming. Check out Mad Men and Breaking Bad. Both far darker than anything or HBO or Showtime, but without swearing. Let’s just hope Kirkman can keep it dark enough!
(no real worry there: if there is one thing that guy loves, it’s torturing his characters)
I like Breaking Bad. I cannot say that I am a fan of Mad Men, but when you win as many awards as that show has it doesn’t really matter. THough I do appreciate how AMC does not cut corners on their productions. If this comes about I am sure it will be just as good as those shows.
I’ll take what Mar-Vell and up it a bit . . . Pick up the trade paperbacks as a cheaper way to get caught up and then buy the monthly books to stay current. It is a COMIC BOOK series after all. Support your local comic book shops!!
Looking forward to this and congrats Robert, Charlie, et al.
You can’t be pro life and anti zombie.
Good news for AMC, zombies rule.
Mark
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If you haven’t read this series, GO BUY THEM NOW!! You will appreciate this soooo much more. Hats off to Kirkman for taking a chance!!
I think ‘WALKING DEAD’ jumped the shark around issue 50, but still one of the best titles out there. Glad the TV series is finally getting off the ground.
I love Frank Darabont and I love The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead is what I wait for all month. I think Frank Darabont would do an amazing job, but addaptation do the best when Directors and writers stay really close to the original writer (Kirkman) I really hope Kirkman makes careful decisions about what happens to his material and where it goes. And yeah he did steal the intro from 28 days later but thats half of 1 issue out of 64 comics. Who cares? Not me, I will be stressed but I hope if anything happens It comes out well.
lot about you