The Walking Dead

[Legend]

The Walking Dead is an upcoming American television series created for television by Frank Darabont and based upon the comic book series of the same name created by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore. It will premiere on the AMC network on October 31, 2010 with a 90-minute premiere episode, during the network's "Fearfest.

The Walking Dead tells the story of the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse and follows a small group of survivors traveling across the country in search of a new home away from the hordes of zombies. The group is led by Rick Grimes, who was a police officer in the old world. As their situation grows more and more grim, the group's desperation to survive pushes them to do almost anything to stay alive.

Premiere: 31 oktober 2010

Cast:
Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes
Sarah Wayne Callies as Lori Grimes
Chandler Riggs as Carl Grimes
Jeffrey DeMunn as Dale
Laurie Holden as Andrea
Jon Bernthal as Shane
Steven Yeun as Glenn
Iron E. Singleton as T-Dog
Lennie James as Morgan Jones
Jim Coleman as Lambert "Lam" Kendel
Michael Rooker as Merle Dixon
Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon
Linds Edwards as Leon Basset
Emma Bell as Amy
Keith Allen Hayes as Tyreese
Adrian Kali Turner as Duane Jones
Melissa McBride as Carol
Jeryl Prescott Sales as Jacqui
Andrew Rothenberg as Jim
Juan Pareja as Morales
Adam Minarovich as Ed

Regisseur: Frank Darabont

Trailer

[Vleeshaak]

Als er zombies in zitten, ben ik van de partij. Laat maar komen, ik ben benieuwd.

[Tasslehoff_Burrfoot]

Ik kijk er ook al een tijdje naar uit, laat inderdaad maar komen die zombies.

[Swampman]

Is nu een fraaie trailer verschenen:

http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TVhRXkhqQE3n ... -1-trailer

[PascalE]

Damn ziet er heel goed uit.

[Legend]

The Walking Dead Wins Season Two
…Before the first one even airs

The story of Frank Darabont’s attempt to bring Robert Kirkman’s beloved zombie comic The Walking Dead to TV screens has, in the last year or so, been filled largely with good news. It got picked up by US network AMC (and FX over here), went quickly from pilot to first series commission (AMC’s usual six episode kick-off), and has been building some healthy buzz, particularly after the trailer was shown at Comic-Con and arrived online. Now there’s another milestone passed as the show has won a second season before a frame of the first has even aired.

Fangoria reports that the show has been officially renewed, with filming set to start in February next year. And in keeping with AMC’s usual schedule, the next season will be 13 episodes.

While the first season took place in the blazing Atlanta heat, it’s possible that the next set of stories could take a cue from Volume 2 of the comics and be set during a different season. "It would be great not just to get out of the heat, but to present a different idea to the audience visually and tonally by having it be winter,” Darabont tells Comic Book Movie. There’s some really cool stuff that Kirkman did, where they find the one zombie that’s frozen to the ground. I’d never seen that before and that’s really cool.”

And given that he and Kirkman have been playing with the narrative and shifting stories and characters around a little (though the overall plot will be largely faithful to the comic), he might just get the chance to introduce his favourite character from the books: Michonne. “When she shows up – and boy, is she a character I can’t wait to get to – when she comes striding out of the wasteland like a Clint Eastwood f***ing spaghetti Western character cross-melded with some samurai movie, like the Baby Cart character with the f***ing sword, and there’s just a little drift of snow in the air. I would love to put that on film."

So if you were excited to see the show already, now you don’t have to worry about it being cancelled immediately should you end up loving it, and then having to go through years of therapy to get over it like we did to get over My So-Called Life and Firefly. Er. Ahem.

The first episode, written and directed by Darabont, will air on October 31 in the US and arrives over here shortly afterwards. There will be plenty more on the show in a future issue of Empire.

James White

[PascalE]

Review The Walking Dead: http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/112/1128930p1.html

[Sha]

Nou..
Ik vond het een interessant begin... al waren sommige momenten net een beetje te ...cliché

[dragonspirit]

Heerlijke eerste aflevering als je het mij vraagt. Ja, er waren wat cliché zaken bij, maar zelfs dan...heerlijk!

[timdekw]

Ik neem aan dat deze serie niet op de Nederlandse televisie te zien is. Het ziet er best interessant uit namelijk en bovendien ben ik bijna klaar met Lost en ik heb dan nog een vervangende serie nodig

[Lonewolf]

Het was alles wat ik ervan had verwacht ... en meer.
Spannend, gaaf, op een goede manier goor en ook nog ontroerend.
Enige beetje jammere vind ik

Spoiler

dat we nu al weten dat die Lori en Carl nog leven. Was beter geweest als we samen met Rick in het ongewisse waren gebleven.

Het is echt zo'n geniaal simpel idee, dat het verbazingwekkend is dat nog nooit iemand eerder erop is gekomen. Een serie over zombies i.p.v. films, waarin idd alles binnen 2 uur gepropt moet worden. Je nu tijd hebt om karaters uit te diepen en verhaal te maken.

[PascalE]

Wow heerlijke eerste aflevering inderdaad, wat Lonewolf in zn spoiler zegt vind ik ook jammer inderdaad. Maar verder, hier kan ik gerust uren naar kijken.

[Lonewolf]

Tweede aflevering is even vet

[PascalE]

Vond m iets minder

Spoiler

de samenstelling van de groep en de spanningen daartussen zijn wel érg cliche en zwart/wit (letterlijk)

, maar de ontknoping is wederom smullen (of juist andersom ).

[faxanadu1988]

Het lijkt me een goede serie , laat maar komen...