"They were very excited about the idea of doing a zombie show until I handed them a zombie script where zombies were actually doing zombie shit," Darabont told Dread Central about the comic adaptation having previously been in development at NBC.
"It's one of those things where the network says, 'Oh yeah, we want to stretch the envelope' until they realise that they're actually looking at a stretched envelope, and they go, 'Woah, no, let’s do CSI some more.' I’m certainly not trying to rip them down, but they’re a network, and we could never have done this show the way it needed to be done there."
As for what they cant do over at AMC, he said: "We can’t say '[frick]'. I don’t know that if I were doing a feature, I’d be doing anything differently. You can’t say [frick], but you can shoot a zombie in the head at point-blank range. I love this business."
The Walking Dead will air later this year in October!