The Walking Dead - TV Series on AMC ( Comic and Un-aired Spoilers unwelcome!)

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Re: The Walking Dead - TV Series on AMC ( Spoilers!!)

blackmask said:
what are you boys talking about?
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Re: The Walking Dead - TV Series on AMC ( Spoilers!!)

Interesting read...

Kirkman doubted The Walking Dead TV show 'every step of the way'

Robert Kirkman already had a successful zombie comic on his hands when The Walking Dead made its TV debut two years ago. Now he's got an even more successful comic and a record-breaking cable series that seems poised to get even more popular. Kirkman's loving the success, but he's willing to admit that "every step of the way" he was waiting for the show to fail.
Several years went by between the time Frank Darabont first optioned the series from Kirkman and the time it finally made it to AMC. Before Darabont came along, Kirkman "turned a lot of people down" but found the Shawshank Redemption director to be "a like-minded guy." The series first wound up at NBC, which requested that the zombies be removed. Then producer Gale Anne Hurd came along and helped the pair transfer the work over to AMC, which immediately got behind it. But even when a major cable network picked up the show, Kirkman persisted in believing that something was bound to go wrong.
"Every step of the way, I never believed it was actually gonna happen. I'm actually in the offices at AMC and talking to executives ... 'It's never gonna happen.' I'm on set watching them film it and I'm like 'Something is gonna happen before this thing is on air and it's not gonna go, and whatever.' And I think even the first time it aired I was like 'Well, it's on air, but it's probably not gonna make it to a second season.' I'm a pretty big pessimist."
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It would be tough for Kirkman to be a pessimist about the show these days. Check out the clip below, in which he discusses the whole story of how the show went from idea to reality, all while he was sure it would never happen. The clip, by the way, is a portion of the forthcoming documentary Comics in Focus: The Image Revolution, which charts the 20-year history of Image Comics (where Walking Dead is published and Kirkman is a partner) and its impact on the comics industry and culture. You can learn more about that flick here.
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Re: The Walking Dead - TV Series on AMC ( Spoilers!!)

Yeah, what it doesn't say though is that he'd shopped the idea around before and had doors slammed in his face. Hence the pessimism.
 
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The series first wound up at NBC, which requested that the zombies be removed.
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Yup, that sounds like something NBC would want to do.
 
Re: The Walking Dead - TV Series on AMC ( Spoilers!!)

How awesome would a zombie show without zombies be? I can't believe no one ever thought of that before.

Don't those _______s have a cable news channel too? :lol
 
Re: The Walking Dead - TV Series on AMC ( Spoilers!!)

Man, seeing pics like this makes me want it to be October already. Prison pics looks awesome. Very similar to the books.
 
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Can someone put in spoilers what the impetus is for going to the prison. Looking at the pics above they are obviously going to have to fight their way in and surely they'd know the place would be crawling before heading that direction.
 
Re: The Walking Dead - TV Series on AMC ( Spoilers!!)

wofford29 said:
Can someone put in spoilers what the impetus is for going to the prison. Looking at the pics above they are obviously going to have to fight their way in and surely they'd know the place would be crawling before heading that direction.
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They go to the prison because it has walls to keep the Walkers out. They do have to clean it out first, but when that is accomplished, then it is pretty much a Walker-free zone.
 
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Mister Ski said:
They go to the prison because it has walls to keep the Walkers out. They do have to clean it out first, but when that is accomplished, then it is pretty much a Walker-free zone.
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So do they approach it with a "we're going to have to get down and dirty and some of us might not make it out alive" attitude or is it just like a "hey look, a prison...oh ____ how did all these zombies get here and now we have to fight them" type scenario?
 
Re: The Walking Dead - TV Series on AMC ( Spoilers!!)

wofford29 said:
So do they approach it with a "we're going to have to get down and dirty and some of us might not make it out alive" attitude or is it just like a "hey look, a prison...oh ____ how did all these zombies get here and now we have to fight them" type scenario?
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Neither. The book plays up more how the zombies are slow and less dangerous if you attack them in groups. They systematically go through the prison yard and the prison itself, eliminating the Walkers a little at a time until they are all cleared out. In the book, there is also a group of four prisoners they meet who had sealed themselves off from the Walkers with a cache of food and weapons. Maybe we will see versions of these people in the tv series?
 

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