Gale Anne Hurd recently sat down to chat about
The Walking Dead, here are some interesting excerpts from the interview with TV.com.
On her favorite comics:
"Well, obviously, I love "The Walking Dead." I've got one, actually, that I've launched, "The Scourge" written by Scott Lobdell and artwork by Eric Battle, which is from Aspen Comics, I'm very excited about that. There's also the new adaptation of Phillip K. Dick, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" [the novel that was the extremely loose basis/inspiration for Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner"]"
On whether or not you should watch The Walking Dead if your squeamish:
"It depends on what makes you squeamish. We should probably have some sort of alert so that when the character drama is interrupted by something a bit gory, you can avert your eyes. AMC has not given us the kind of restrictions that I think that the fans were afraid of. The gorehounds are going to be happy. It's story. It's character. But it is a zombie apocalypse. Although we call them "walkers," people will know them as zombies and we have to be true to the genre."
On how closely they are working to the story of the comic:
"We're not slavishly following it. It's a different medium to begin with. We have the opportunity to explore characters in a way that a comic book is limited. It's limited in the number of panels that you've got. The amount of dialogue. So, we're able to dig deeper there. And Robert (Kirkman) was very, very upfront saying "I don't want all of the fans of the comic book to be able to predict exactly where it's going." So, we change it up. In fact, the episode we're shooting right now…which is the fourth episode, Robert Kirkman wrote.Robert was involved from the very beginning as an executive producer. In the meetings, talking about where the arc of the six episodes would take us by the end of the season. He worked very closely with Frank and the writer's room. In fact, he was in the writer's room and he's been on set."
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http://www.tv.com/a-chat-with-gale-anne-hurd-producer-of-the-walking-dead/webnews/185202.html