Hi all…
Zombies on AMC? Why not? Drug dealers (Breaking Bad) and advertising (Mad Men) executives already call AMC home. What’s a few zombies between friends?
Evidently writer, director, and executive producer Frank Darabont has always wanted to do zombies. And the comic The Walking Dead that started back in 2003 from Image Comics presents another interpretation of an inevitable zombie apocalypse. Darabont, comic writer Robert Kirkman, and artist Tony Moore (and later artist Charlie Adlard) all know the one thing about good science fiction or horror or any type of story really… it’s really about the people, not the zombies, aliens, monsters, or whatever.
I’ll be very interested to see a zombie story adapted for a television audience. From what little I’ve seen of Mad Men and Breaking Bad, AMC doesn’t seem to pull any punches. So maybe this will be well done enough so we focus on the story of the survivors and not pick apart the special effects in the background. The images here look pretty good (or gruesome depending on who you ask), so I’ll keep some hope.
In the past, I’ve enjoyed Darabont’s work on films like The Green Mile and The Mist, so we’ll see if this television project from him can avoid the sinkhole that The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones fell into in the 1990s.
Could this year or next become the year of the zombie on TV? We might see a series inspired by Jonathan Maberry’s excellent book Patient Zero as television series Department Zero currently in production by ABC. Maybe?
We can only hope zombies come to TV and are “most excellent” and not just “dead weight”…
–Fitz
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