AMC just acquired the rights to Robert Kirkman's popular comic book "The Walking Dead" for a potential series. The project is being executive produced by Darabont and Gale Anne Hurd and will be featured on AMC.
This from The Hollywood Reporter:
"Walking Dead," a monthly black-and-white comic book, has been a hotly sought-after property since it was published in 2003 by Image Comics. Darabont originally developed the project several years ago under his deal at NBC. It landed at AMC after a healthy bidding war.
"Dead" chronicles the months and years following a zombie apocalypse where a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, travel in search of a safe, secure home. The comic explores the challenges of life in a world overrun by zombies that take a toll on the survivors. Over time, they grow willing to do anything to survive, so the interpersonal conflicts sometimes present a greater danger to their continuing survival than the zombies who roam the country."
Joel Stillerman, senior vp original programming, production and digital content had this to say regarding The Walking Dead:
"I don't know of another series of books that has such beautiful storytelling, great human emotions, and everything that really works on AMC," he said. "It allows us to stay where we want to stay: in the world of smart, sophisticated storytelling and apply that to a show that we think the audience would love."
Well if they stick to his smart, sophisticated storytelling formula I'll watch this on AMC. Everyone knows it would be nice to have some quality on tv versus quantity amounts of rushed story telling, or uneventful episodes that build up into nothing.
