[The Walking Dead] Season one is over "Man I'm gonna get shitfaced drunk, again"

Handsome Costanza

Fuck yes people. It's being made into a TV show for AMC FUCK YES.

For those of you who don't know The Walking Dead or TWD as it will be referred to henceforth, is a long running graphic novel series by the great Robert Kirkman. It's one of my favorite graphic novels ever so this is right up my ally.

Here's some pics of zombies and stuff.


They seem to be going realistic with the decomposition of the zombies. Here is a progression of the states of decay the zombies will be in.


Heres the IMDB page.



I can't wait to see how they handle the

Scene where the football star gets locked in the prison gym with a horde of zombies

Hopefully this will be what Zombieland should have been (Zombieland started off as a pilot for a TV show on CBS, hence the "Zombie kill of the week" theme in the movie)

Personally I think the zombie genre has gotten a little over-saturated but if any piece of work can overcome the stigmas of the genre its TWD. Also prepare for shitloads of melodrama. Which I wont mind as long as it comes with copious amounts of zed killings.




I also want to add that everyone needs to LABEL ANY AND ALL SPOILERS FROM THE GRAPHIC NOVEL. I'M ONLY ON BOOK 3 GODDAMNIT!

Passerbye

Excited!

So excited!

I'm gonna go reread the books I've got right now!

Bionic Monkey

I'll need to stock up on anti-depressants, but there's no way I'll be missing this.

Brainleech

I forgot about this. I agree the zombie media is rather over saturated

Drakeon

Oh man, so excited for this. So excited. Walking Dead is one of my favorite comics out right now.

Zombiemambo

Oh fu-

PolloDiablo

I'll be watching this with glee. It's strange, the zombie genre, if it's its own genre now, has a lot of games and movies and stuff recently, so much so that it's seen as passe by a lot of people. But we still haven't had what I'd consider to be a "proper" zombie game or film or whatever in recent years. They're all stuff like Left 4 Dead or 28 Weeks Later, where they aren't the same thing to me. I don't just mean fast vs. slow or anything like that, but the basic themes. These days we get almost entirely action zombie stuff, focusing on mowing down hordes of them, or running and screaming. Exciting, but light on characterization or human interaction. The closest we've had in a long time is Zombieland, and that was a parody.

So I'm looking forward to this overcrowded genre finally getting something worth seeing.

edit: And hurry up and read more of it. I like where it's going at the moment.

Zombiemambo

PolloDiablo wrote: »

I'll be watching this with glee. It's strange, the zombie genre, if it's its own genre now, has a lot of games and movies and stuff recently, so much so that it's seen as passe by a lot of people. But we still haven't had what I'd consider to be a "proper" zombie game or film or whatever in recent years. They're all stuff like Left 4 Dead or 28 Weeks Later, where they aren't the same thing to me. I don't just mean fast vs. slow or anything like that, but the basic themes. These days we get almost entirely action zombie stuff, focusing on mowing down hordes of them, or running and screaming. Exciting, but light on characterization or human interaction. The closest we've had in a long time is Zombieland, and that was a parody.

So I'm looking forward to this overcrowded genre finally getting something worth seeing.

What we haven't gotten is a film that defines the genre this decade the way Night of The Living Dead and Dawn of The Dead did for the 60's and 70's.

Zephos

Wait so this is going to be a television show?

oh i'm so down for that.

Time to read the books finally i guess.

Wash

Yay Jon Bernthal and Laurie Holden are in this

Fatboy Roberts

Not only is it a 6 episode 1st season (which I'm all for - pack in as much as you can in as short a time as you can) but if I'm reading this correctly, Darabont is doing all six hours. Aside from Stephen Merchant and Edgar Wright with "The Office" and "Spaced," respectively, I can't think of a TV series with a single director the entirety of the run. Unique opportunity there.

That teaser video sucks though. Not due to the lack of footage, but to the blatant pandering on display. Darabont and Hurd are obviously being coached to namedrop Mad Men as often as possible, and it's completely unneccessary. "We wanna do for zombies what Mad Men did for advertising." That doesn't even fucking MEAN anything. It's empty bullshit aimed at pacifying an audience that doesn't need a binky shoved in its mouth.

I mean, it's AMC. Sure, it's got Breaking Bad and Mad Men, but when those two shows aren't on, they rerun Poltergeist III and Wishmaster all day long. The audience doesn't need to be told "It's Mad Men, but with undead ghouls shambling around" in order to tune in, and Hurd and Darabont would do better to sell their show by being allowed to sell their show, not make bullshit analogies to a completely separate series that has NOTHING to do with them and what they're trying to do.

Zephos

"We wanna do for zombies what Mad Men did for advertising."

that is kind of a mind bending quote there.

Legba

I'm excited, but there's yet to be a TV adaptation of something I love that wasn't rubbish. SyFy, I'm looking at you, you asshole: A Wizard of Earthsea and The Riverworld? Fuck, adapt the Mortal Engines quartet for a hat-trick.

Anyway, zombies. I've never seen anything from AMC (although people keep raving about Mad Men), but you can't go too far off script with zombies, so I'm going with Cautiously Excited.

Hear that SyFy? Try as you might, you haven't broken my spirit.

Cherrn

Really excited about this. Evidently it's not going to follow the comic's storyline to a letter, but deviate into other directions along with new characters. Though the major events will still be there. Which I think is fine. I think it would be missing a real opportunity if they just mimicked the exact same story from the comic.

Edit: Also, those decay sketches are really promising. Great to see that they're pulling at all the stops as far as make-up is concerned. I think a lot of people in the industry are forgetting that non-CG technology has also made a fuckton of advances over the past 20 years.

Dynagrip

this series did nothing for me. which is a shame cause i read like 6 or 7 of the TPBs

DasUberEdward

Legba wrote: »

I'm excited, but there's yet to be a TV adaptation of something I love that wasn't rubbish. SyFy, I'm looking at you, you asshole: A Wizard of Earthsea and The Riverworld? Fuck, adapt the Mortal Engines quartet for a hat-trick.

Anyway, zombies. I've never seen anything from AMC (although people keep raving about Mad Men), but you can't go too far off script with zombies, so I'm going with Cautiously Excited.

Hear that SyFy? Try as you might, you haven't broken my spirit.

Listen.

AMC makes maybe one original series a year.

And so far they have all been emmy award winning. Seriously some of the best television I have ever seen. With all of that in mind there is no other network I would want to be producing this television show.

I don't think my level of excitement is going even consider dropping until October hits. My favorite comic heading to one of my favorite networks?

Glorious.

Metal Gear Solid 2 Demo

Legba wrote: »

I'm excited, but there's yet to be a TV adaptation of something I love that wasn't rubbish. SyFy, I'm looking at you, you asshole: A Wizard of Earthsea and The Riverworld? Fuck, adapt the Mortal Engines quartet for a hat-trick.

Anyway, zombies. I've never seen anything from AMC (although people keep raving about Mad Men), but you can't go too far off script with zombies, so I'm going with Cautiously Excited.

Hear that SyFy? Try as you might, you haven't broken my spirit.

Yes, AMC and SyFy, totally on the same budget scale

Lawndart

I'm the only person on Earth who didn't like Breaking Bad, so I have to modulate my inherent "Fuck yes, slow zombies!" enthusiasm slightly.

I am wondering how AMC will deal with the gore quotient, but maybe that will give them an excuse to avoid the more torture-porn plot developments of the comic.

Cherrn

Lawndart wrote: »

I am wondering how AMC will deal with the gore quotient, but maybe that will give them an excuse to avoid the more torture-porn plot developments of the comic.

Seriously, there's just some stuff in the comic that they'll never get away with on television. Such as one particular scene that combines both

necrophilia and pedophilia

jkylefulton

Kirkman and Darabont have both said that they don't feel AMC will limit the gore content (aka "Anything Breaking Bad has done, we can do" - and Breaking Bad has had some ridiculous gore moments).

I don't mind that they're not going to 100% follow the comic - let the comic be the comic and the television show be the show. I'm more excited that we'll have an ongoing (hopefully) tv series about "what happens once the zombie movie is over" (something Kirkman has been saying since the earliest TWD letter columns).

Malkor

Kinda wish it was on HBO, but this is fine as well.

jkylefulton

Cherrn wrote: »

Lawndart wrote: »

I am wondering how AMC will deal with the gore quotient, but maybe that will give them an excuse to avoid the more torture-porn plot developments of the comic.

Seriously, there's just some stuff in the comic that they'll never get away with on television. Such as one particular scene that combines both

necrophilia and pedophilia

I think they could go that route if they really want to - just imply it instead of 100% showing it. I mean, there are certain plot points I'm not really eager to see faithfully adapted on the screen, like

Michonne's rape and her revenge

.

DasUberEdward

Lawndart wrote: »

I'm the only person on Earth who didn't like Breaking Bad, so I have to modulate my inherent "Fuck yes, slow zombies!" enthusiasm slightly.

I am wondering how AMC will deal with the gore quotient, but maybe that will give them an excuse to avoid the more torture-porn plot developments of the comic.

Eh breaking bad has had a decapitated head placed on top of a tortoise.

that is on top of a bomb

and explodes killing and maiming people.

they've also had bodies dissolved into liquid mush pour over from a bath tub.

uh

brains blown out the back of skulls and INTO the camera.

so uh. yeah we're good there.

Malkor

DasUberEdward wrote: »

Lawndart wrote: »

I'm the only person on Earth who didn't like Breaking Bad, so I have to modulate my inherent "Fuck yes, slow zombies!" enthusiasm slightly.

I am wondering how AMC will deal with the gore quotient, but maybe that will give them an excuse to avoid the more torture-porn plot developments of the comic.

Eh breaking bad has had a decapitated head placed on top of a tortoise.

that is on top of a bomb

and explodes killing and maiming people.

they've also had bodies dissolved into liquid mush pour over from a bath tub.

uh

brains blown out the back of skulls and INTO the camera.

so uh. yeah we're good there.

Wait!

AMC is a cable network they can more or less do what they want after 10pm! They just need advertisers willing to associate with them, and a zombie show its pretty much a guarantee at a specific type of audience.

I forgot about that.

Lawndart

DasUberEdward wrote: »

Lawndart wrote: »

I'm the only person on Earth who didn't like Breaking Bad, so I have to modulate my inherent "Fuck yes, slow zombies!" enthusiasm slightly.

I am wondering how AMC will deal with the gore quotient, but maybe that will give them an excuse to avoid the more torture-porn plot developments of the comic.

Eh breaking bad has had a decapitated head placed on top of a tortoise.

that is on top of a bomb

and explodes killing and maiming people.

they've also had bodies dissolved into liquid mush pour over from a bath tub.

uh

brains blown out the back of skulls and INTO the camera.

so uh. yeah we're good there.

Fair enough. I've only watched a few episodes of Breaking Bad.

DasUberEdward

Malkor wrote: »

DasUberEdward wrote: »

Lawndart wrote: »

I'm the only person on Earth who didn't like Breaking Bad, so I have to modulate my inherent "Fuck yes, slow zombies!" enthusiasm slightly.

I am wondering how AMC will deal with the gore quotient, but maybe that will give them an excuse to avoid the more torture-porn plot developments of the comic.

Eh breaking bad has had a decapitated head placed on top of a tortoise.

that is on top of a bomb

and explodes killing and maiming people.

they've also had bodies dissolved into liquid mush pour over from a bath tub.

uh

brains blown out the back of skulls and INTO the camera.

so uh. yeah we're good there.

Wait!

AMC is a cable network they can more or less do what they want after 10pm! They just need advertisers willing to associate with them, and a zombie show its pretty much a guarantee at a specific type of audience.

I forgot about that.

I believe Kirkman or the director said that they will be allowed to have those levels of gore and violence EVERY minute of the show if they wanted.

I really really think this is going to be done properly.

PJ Coursey

What we haven't gotten is a film that defines the genre this decade the way Night of The Living Dead and Dawn of The Dead did for the 60's and 70's.

Somebody hasn't watched 28 Days Later yet, have they? This one movie put more of a mark on the genre than any since the Romero days. It introduced the highly controversial "fast zombies" into films, which has been a staple since.

Ragnar Dragonfyre

I CANNOT wait for this. I started reading this series this year, just waiting on the next compilation to be released on June. 16th. After that, I'll have to hunt down the individual comics to catch up fully.

Honestly, this is easily the best piece of zombie literature ever penned. I can't express enough love for The Walking Dead.

Fatboy Roberts

PJ Coursey wrote: »

What we haven't gotten is a film that defines the genre this decade the way Night of The Living Dead and Dawn of The Dead did for the 60's and 70's.

Somebody hasn't watched 28 Days Later yet, have they? This one movie put more of a mark on the genre than any since the Romero days. It introduced the highly controversial "fast zombies" into films, which has been a staple since.

Aside from the nerd-nitpickery that will attempt to disqualify "28 Days Later" from the discussion (Yes, they're technically not Zombies, but for all intents and purposes...) I'm not so sure that's the best pick - Shaun of the Dead is probably a better reflection of the 2000's than Boyle's movie.

retrovm

oh man, fantastic!

Wassermelone

Fatboy Roberts wrote: »

PJ Coursey wrote: »

What we haven't gotten is a film that defines the genre this decade the way Night of The Living Dead and Dawn of The Dead did for the 60's and 70's.

Somebody hasn't watched 28 Days Later yet, have they? This one movie put more of a mark on the genre than any since the Romero days. It introduced the highly controversial "fast zombies" into films, which has been a staple since.

Aside from the nerd-nitpickery that will attempt to disqualify "28 Days Later" from the discussion (Yes, they're technically not Zombies, but for all intents and purposes...) I'm not so sure that's the best pick - Shaun of the Dead is probably a better reflection of the 2000's than Boyle's movie.

Eh I disagree. 28 Days Later was the movie that relaunched this decade's love of zombies. Sure Shaun of the Dead was amazing, but I don't know if it would have even been made if not for 28 Days Later.

Fatboy Roberts

But that's not really what I'm arguing - I'm saying Shaun of the Dead was more of a reflection of the 2000's than 28 Days Later, not that it was more influential. And I'm unsure that 28 Days Later had anything to do with Shaun of the Dead's conception, really, that had much more to do with the success of "Spaced" on Channel 4.

Ketar

Fatboy Roberts wrote: »

But that's not really what I'm arguing - I'm saying Shaun of the Dead was more of a reflection of the 2000's than 28 Days Later, not that it was more influential. And I'm unsure that 28 Days Later had anything to do with Shaun of the Dead's conception, really, that had much more to do with the success of "Spaced" on Channel 4.

Shaun of the Dead may in fact be a better reflection of the 2000s as a whole, but going back to the original statement in that quote tree I'd have to say that 28 Days Later does actually define the genre for that decade in a manner similar to Night or Dawn.

You seem to be arguing something slightly different from those discussing genre-defining films.

Fatboy Roberts

You're right, looks like I misinterpreted the original post.

SteevL

I'm really hoping this turns out well.

jkylefulton

If the last minute of tonight's Breaking Bad was any indication, they'll be able to show whatever the hell they want in TWD.

President Rex

Fatboy Roberts wrote: »

PJ Coursey wrote: »

What we haven't gotten is a film that defines the genre this decade the way Night of The Living Dead and Dawn of The Dead did for the 60's and 70's.

Somebody hasn't watched 28 Days Later yet, have they? This one movie put more of a mark on the genre than any since the Romero days. It introduced the highly controversial "fast zombies" into films, which has been a staple since.

Aside from the nerd-nitpickery that will attempt to disqualify "28 Days Later" from the discussion (Yes, they're technically not Zombies, but for all intents and purposes...) I'm not so sure that's the best pick - Shaun of the Dead is probably a better reflection of the 2000's than Boyle's movie.

That's all well and good, but we're still missing two decades worth of epic, genre-defining zombie movies. Unless we're throwing Day of the Dead out there for the 80s...I'd have expected something with a bit more camp.

And I don't believe the hypothetical zombie-genre can ever become oversaturated. They're essentially disaster/apocalypse media with a legitmate reason for guns and explosions. But apparently I'm also well out of the loop since I've never heard of this "Walking Dead" either...but I am intrigued.

[edit]Apparently Army of Darkness and Dead Alive were from 1992, so I guess that covers the 90s[/edit]

Venkman90

I am still very curious about the casting of Andrew Lincoln as Rick.

As a Brit I grew up watching him on This Life and I can't make the leap, nor can I imagine him being able to do the accent.

Edit: as for genre defining film, how's WWZ coming along? not heard much from that in a while...

Allforce

Has this 6-episode run been confirmed as a stand alone mini-series or a possible launch into full fledged seasons if it does well?

I read through all 11 trades in about a week about 2 months ago on the recommendation of a friend, then I heard about the TV show. After reading it all there's some shit I know they're going to have to change or I'll be shocked.

Zampanov

Venkman90 wrote: »

I am still very curious about the casting of Andrew Lincoln as Rick.

As a Brit I grew up watching him on This Life and I can't make the leap, nor can I imagine him being able to do the accent.

Edit: as for genre defining film, how's WWZ coming along? not heard much from that in a while...

That is kinda weird casting. We'll see, though.

WWZ is delayed at the moment, I think. Last I heard they were re-writing Straczynski's script and Marc Forster is off the project because of the delays so they're looking for a new director too.

Venkman90

Zampanov wrote: »

Venkman90 wrote: »

I am still very curious about the casting of Andrew Lincoln as Rick.

As a Brit I grew up watching him on This Life and I can't make the leap, nor can I imagine him being able to do the accent.

Edit: as for genre defining film, how's WWZ coming along? not heard much from that in a while...

That is kinda weird casting. We'll see, though.

WWZ is delayed at the moment, I think. Last I heard they were re-writing Straczynski's script and Marc Forster is off the project because of the delays so they're looking for a new director too.

Really? that sucks, I liked what I had seen of the script so far (the highway traffic jam / sea of Zach stuff) but then I heard he had them as "runners" too.