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Mattel Jones	THE WALKING DEAD coming to AMC	Lead	[-]
Aug 13 09 12:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Robert Kirkman's popular comic series about the struggles of survivors vs the living dead in a post zombie apocalypse world has been acquired for TV by everyone's favorite cable network (haha) AMC. The network which turned away from classic 'uncut' film presentations to pursue the commercial market with much gusto has had some recent success in original TV production with shows like MAD MEN and BREAKING BAD, starring former 'Malcolm in the Middle' dad Bryan Cranston as a (dying) high school science teacher who makes crystal meth as a way to provide for his family. The development folks at AMC have referred to THE WALKING DEAD as the biggest deal in development history and only time will tell how successful (an accurate to source) their final product will be. For my part I wish them the best of luck.
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Strockstar		#1	[-]
Aug 13 09 7:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Sounds intriguing. Thanks for posting, Mattel! I shall keep my eyes open for this!
Mattel Jones		#2	[-]
Aug 13 09 9:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Per The Hollywood Reporter: Frank Darabont [The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption] is on board to write, direct and exec produce the project, with Gale Anne Hurd of Valhalla Pictures and David Alpert of Circle of Confusion also executive producing. Apparently Darabont has been associated with the idea of adapting this into a TV series for several years now and had this in development at NBC. AMC just won the option in a high stakes bidding war. Personally I'd rather see something like this off regular network, HBO would have been perfect, but with a dream team like this behind it AMC will likely have a cult hit on their hands.
pinkfloyd95209		#3	[-]
Jan 28 10 12:55 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Bumping this up
Mattel Jones		#4	[-]
Jan 28 10 1:16 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	pinkfloyd95209 wrote: Bumping this up Thank you for the bump. Here's a link to an interview that AMC's Horror Hacker Blog did with Robert Kirkman about his THE WALKING DEAD book: http://blogs.amctv.com/ho...lking-dead-interview.php and here's a link to the Coming Attractions website review of the pilot script for the AMC series: http://coronacomingattrac...t-walking-dead-tv-series
zogstar67		#5	[-]
Jan 28 10 11:36 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I know people around here have little regard for AMC as a movie channel at this point, but they are showing a real flair for developing great TV drama. MAD MEN is a great show, popular and critically acclaimed. I urge people to catch up with it on DVD. I've never seen BREAKING BAD but it seems to be reasonably good. WALKING DEAD is a great comic series involving an ensemble cast trying (and often failing) to survive a zombie apocalypse anyway they can. I'm really excited about this. Chris Herzog "The Devil's on the loose and he's dancin' with the Mummy!!!"
Mattel Jones	Casting updates	#6	[-]
Jul 23 10 11:01 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	AMC has announced that Michael Rooker has been cast in the leading role of Merle Dixon alongside Norman Reedus (THE BOONDOCK SAINTS) as Merle's brother Daryl. The show is currently in production in and around Atlanta, and will debut on the network this October as part of the network's annual horror marathon Fearfest.
Mattel Jones	WALKING DEAD Trailer at AMC.Com	#7	[-]
Aug 25 10 7:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There is a trailer up at AMC.com , I think it might be the same one shown at Comic-Con. This looks great. I've been reading the TPBs of the Kirkman comics and if they just stick to that (which seems to be the case judging by the trailer) this will be awesome! http://www.amctv.com/vide...0&bctid=593569611001
Reegs		#8	[-]
Aug 26 10 12:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	zogstar67 wrote: I know people around here have little regard for AMC as a movie channel at this point, but they are showing a real flair for developing great TV drama. MAD MEN is a great show, popular and critically acclaimed. I urge people to catch up with it on DVD. I've never seen BREAKING BAD but it seems to be reasonably good. WALKING DEAD is a great comic series involving an ensemble cast trying (and often failing) to survive a zombie apocalypse anyway they can. I'm really excited about this. And Rubicon has me hooked, although at this point I just want to get an idea of just what the f** is* going on?
oldmanster		#9	[-]
Aug 26 10 4:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Haven't read the graphic series. Just caught what I guess is a teaser trailer -- there really isn't much info on the series itself, more on the comic series -- on the Survival of the Dead DVD just released through Netflix. The comic story looks interesting, but I'm not sure I'm gonna follow it on AMC, a station I've avoided since it went to commercials. I'd much rather see a mini-series or even a film of Peter Clines' excellent melding of superheroes and zombies -- Ex-Heroes. ... Reed
Mattel Jones		#10	[-]
Aug 26 10 7:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Television is chuck full of stuff I'm happy to avoid or can imagine being better. I'm hoping for the best with this and from the previews it looks like they will deliver the goods. I'd love to see BBC America run DEAD SET, but I doubt it'll ever happen (even with the major edits they would be sure to impose on it). BTW I'm pretty sure I read that this only runs six episodes with a 90 minute opener. So It pretty much is a mini series. If it does well it'll be back for another season.
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Mattel Jones		#11	[-]
Oct 13 10 1:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	oldmanster wrote: Haven't read the graphic series. Just caught what I guess is a teaser trailer -- there really isn't much info on the series itself, more on the comic series.... ... Reed I think AMC has added a bit more info on the series in the run up to its premiere this Halloween. It's hard to imagine a more highly anticipated TV series for Horror fans (at least one that begins this month!). http://www.amctv.com/originals/The-Walking-Dead/ Last Edited By: Mattel Jones Oct 31 10 11:16 PM. Edited 1 times.
rogueevolent		#12	[-]
Oct 31 10 11:59 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I just saw the opening episode this evening and was blown away by how good it was. Lincoln is superb as Grimes and the entire cast is equally brilliant. Nicotero gives us some of his best work ever. Just a very powerful story that is well directed, well written, and poignantly acted. 10 out of 10. - Jay "We didn't come here to fight monsters, we're not equipped for it" -- Richard Carlson (Creature from the Black Lagoon)
MikeTheMook		#13	[-]
Nov 1 10 7:01 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I thought this was FAR better than any zombie feature films I've seen in recent years. An EXCELLENT made-for-tv film!!
creepycrawley		#14	[-]
Nov 1 10 7:17 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I thought it was great. It stayed very loyal to comic book. It's a great story with great characters. The special effects were topnotch and I was suprised, but pleased by the amount of violence that was left in. I think it's going to be a very successful series with a long life. "What is the Law!"
rvoyttbots		#15	[-]
Nov 1 10 10:26 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I liked it. Though that opening minute was brutal. And the horse scene was diusgusting.
TomWeaver999		#16	[-]
Nov 1 10 11:24 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A buddy was here last night, and he wanted to see it, and the World Series game got to be a bore, so we did watch it. The acting and FX and and and were very good. But the lead WAS kind of a dumb-ass. I mean, he seems to exist in a world without 1001 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD-type movies so he doesn't know all the do's and don't's, but he still did enough things that made us think, "Only an idiot would do that in this situation," which made some scenes kinda frustrating. When he sets out on his great adventure and isn't smart enough NOT to run out of gas on the highway, my first thought was, "This guy richly deserves everything bad that'll now happen to him." The black guy setting up a second-story sniper stand, drawing every zombie in town to his flimsily barricaded house with a little kid downstairs ... the same. I liked it enough that I may watch the next installment, if I happen to remember, but it makes me yearn for a zombie show or movie with characters smart enough to consistently outsmart their *zero*-intelligence adversaries!
TomWeaver999		#17	[-]
Nov 1 10 11:30 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Also, when I saw that the dumb-ass AND his ten cop friends PUT TOGETHER weren't smart/professional enough to handle three injured baddies weakly crawling out of an overturned car one at a time, I knew he wasn't going to do well alone in a world of zombies. BTW, between the scene where he turns his back on these bad guys, and all the mistakes he makes with the zombies, I also winced at the scene where he wakes up in his hospital bed unaware that anything is wrong in the world ..... and instead of looking for a buzzer or even just calling out for a nurse, or just waiting for someone to come in, he throws himself out of the bed onto the floor, starts yanking the IVs out of his arm and crawls to the door. WTF? Who writes this stuff? Last Edited By: TomWeaver999 Nov 1 10 11:40 AM. Edited 1 times.
rvoyttbots		#18	[-]
Nov 1 10 11:55 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	And I kept thinking: there are cars all over the place, you need to get a siphoning hose, buddy, or simply find a car with the keys still in it. When those first zombies pop up, I would have turned that horse around and rode out of Dodge in a hurry. When he was riding up to the city and it was deader than a tomb with buzzards circling should have given him a clue. And he was ready to off himself under the tank before he had even checked around for all possible escape routes. Last Edited By: rvoyttbots Nov 1 10 12:05 PM. Edited 4 times.
TomWeaver999		#19	[-]
Nov 1 10 12:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I want a zombie show where a bunch of guys get together who are likable, practical, smart, ruthless -- and even in this awful world, they can live in great style, the zombies don't stand a chance (because weak, slow-moving monstuhs with no brains DON'T stand a chance against a group like that). And yet things can and do go wrong, against all odds, through clever writing -- none of this "I ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere and got in trouble"/"I decided to take a long walk and got in trouble"/"I decided to sleep in the woods and I got in trouble" s**t. Let 'em move into to one of the 10,000 existing compounds the zombies couldn't get into. Get a couple hundred guns with silencers. Get a few dozens armored vehicles and a couple full gasoline trucks. Et cetera, et cetera. I want protagonists who do all this common-sense stuff, and do it right--and I want screenwriters who can still find ways to create suspense and drama.
rvoyttbots		#20	[-]
Nov 1 10 12:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Sounds too much like THE ROAD WARRIOR. Last Edited By: rvoyttbots Nov 1 10 1:04 PM. Edited 1 times.
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