AMC to Pick Up Walking Dead Series
I’m not gonna lie, the zombie thing is really starting to wear on me. It’s like the one joke that’s somehow not getting old. Really, I mean, how many zombie flicks can George Romero alone pump out before people start demanding something a little less…exactly the same?
To be fair, it’s not only flesh-eaters. Vampires, too, they’re huge right now, part of a kind of second wind for the supernatural–which I’d always hoped for but envisioned more in horror. I wanted more of a return to the risky-creative Hellraisers and Nightmare on Elm Streets of the ’80s, mostly to get away from all of these carbon-copy teen slashers of now. But it seems instead we’re just getting floods of more deadhead horror-comedies, more sexy fanger flicks.
But whatever, as far as television goes, especially network television, this could definitely be cool. AMC has picked up the rights to adapt the hugely popular black & white The Walking Dead comic series, with Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) writing and directing. It will be a serious action/drama and, beside HBO, there’s really no other network I’d rather see taking on the project.
If this were a movie, I might say who cares. But as a series I’m pretty into it, especially since AMC seems to be on a total tear right now, making a very attainable run to be the premier station on TV for original series right now. From the success they’ve had so far with their intelligent and understated programming, I really don’t see them trying to get by with non-stop action for The Walking Dead, either. At least I hope they won’t. Because I want something awful. This is the end of the world, after all; your family’s just turned into cannibals, your friends are decaying. Give me a zombie story for adults and I promise you, you’ll have me at “Braaaaiiiiiins!”
(hehehe… had to be done)
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