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Frank Darabont sees ‘Walking Dead’ with AMC
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Cable channel AMC is seeing zombies with The Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont. Variety reports that AMC is about to seal a development deal with Darabont to write and direct a series adapting Image Comics’ graphic novel series The Walking Dead . Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead series is about a group of zombie survivors of an apocalypse who seek a safe place to live with the help of a police officer. Joel Stillerman, AMC’s senior VP of programming, production and original, said: “This is not about zombies popping out of closets. This is a story about survival, and the dynamics of what happens when a group is forced to ...
I Am Link
my new plaid pants —
. --- Super Serious - Via here (via Nat) comes a bunch of posters for movies playing some upcoming festivals - the one that grabbed my nethers good is the poster for the Coens' A Serious Man seen there to the right - there really hasn't been one misstep by the ad-team working on ...
Frank Darabont Is Dead (But Walking)
Topless Robot —
Sorry if I panicked you -- although that was clearly my intention. Director Frank Darabont (of The Mist and a couple of other swell movies) has been signed up not just to direct a TV series based on Robert Kirkman's zombie-riffic The Walking Dead comic, but also write it. And the best news? It's going to be on AMC. From Variety: Cabler is close to finalizing one of the richest development deals
ever with Darabont to write and direct a series adaptation of the Image Comics graphic novel series "The Walking Dead," penned by Robert Kirkman. Gale Anne Hurd of Valhalla ...
McWeeny on film critics who want you off their lawn
In Contention —
Boy I really need to get on the ball when an idea crosses my mind these days. Earlier in the week, Guardian writer Paul Harris beat me to the punch on an article I was spinning around concerning Hollywood’s attraction to post-apocalyptic narratives as of late. Now HitFix’s Drew McWeeny has penned exactly the same kind of curious exploration of mainstream media critics’ views of the American film-going public that I was hoping to get to this week.
McWeeny nails it. In a nutshell, what the hell is it with the amount of hot air being blown by the self-important film criticism and journalism establishment toward ...
The Braaaaains Mile: Darabont Brings The Walking Dead To AMC
Cinema Blend Television —
The Braaaaains Mile: Darabont Brings The Walking Dead To AMC Zombies have been all the rage on the big screen for a decade or so now, but so far the ranks of the shambling undead havent found equal time on television. Looks like thats about to change in a big way, because Variety reports that Frank Darabont is in talks to write and direct a series adaptation of Robert Kirkmans The Walking Dead comics for AMC. This is great news for fans of the excellent comics, not only because of the involvement of a talented power players like Darabont and producer Gale Anne Hurd, ...
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Movies... > District 9 Blew My Mind! @ The New York Observer > District 9 @ Fillm Threat > The Haunting In Connecticut (2009) @ Movie Mobsters > > Eugenie de Sade [1970] @ Love Train For The ...
TWoP 10 Comic Books That Should Be TV Series
Television Without Pity - All Blogs —
... Somebody in Hollywood has been eating brains. That was our first thought when we heard that Robert Kirkman's epic "surviving a zombie apocalypse" comic book series The Walking Dead was close to being developed as a television series by AMC. Add that to the fact that the Vertigo title Fables, about storybook characters living in New York, is in ...
