She said "I think AMC might be the place to take this." She did, and then bam! They were immediately interested.
What are you doing with it?" I said I'd been trying to set it up forever. "I can't remember what the hell prompted her to read it, but she said, "Wow, I really love this pilot you wrote.
I loved the idea of an extended, ongoing, serialized dramatic presentation set in the zombie apocalypse." He described the process of developing the series and getting it set up at a network as "four years of frustration," and credits executive producer Gale Anne Hurd with finally getting the series on AMC. "Being that I've always had "the love of zombies genre," I of course grabbed it, took it home and read it, and immediately started pursuing the rights to it. I loved it immediately." Darabont recalls walking into a comic book store in Burbank, California and seeing The Walking Dead on the shelf in 2005. It had this marvelously attractive, disreputable draw. ""Night of the Living Dead" had this weird vibe that was almost - it was like pornography.
Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead when he was fourteen years old. I think that that's all because of Frank." ĭarabont himself had been a fan of the zombie genre since seeing George A. Never in a million years could I have thought that if Walking Dead were to ever be adapted that everything would be going this well. I'm certainly not against adaptations, like some creators." When Frank Darabont became interested in adapting the comic books for television, Kirkman said it was "extremely flattering" and went on to say that, "He definitely cares about the original source material, and you can tell that in the way he's adapting it. "I certainly wanted it to happen, just because I knew it would be good for the book. Robert Kirkman, who created the comic book series in 2003, says he had considered the idea of a Walking Dead television series, but never actively pursued it.
After befriending Morgan Jones ( Lennie James), Rick sets out to find his family and discover the origins of the walker virus.Ī set-up of The Walking Dead at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2010 This season adapts material from issues #1–6 of the comic book series and introduces notable comic character Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln), who awakens from a coma, after being shot, in a post-apocalyptic world filled with flesh-eating zombies, dubbed "walkers". Based on its reception, AMC renewed the series for a second season consisting of 13 episodes, which premiered on October 16, 2011. The pilot episode received 5.35 million viewers, and the finale garnered six million viewers, including four million viewers among adults ages 18–49, making it the most viewed basic cable drama series at that time. It was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama at the 68th Golden Globe Awards and received nominations for the 63rd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in several categories, winning Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie, or Special. The season received very positive reviews by critics. Eglee, and Gale Anne Hurd, with Darabont assuming the role of showrunner. It was executive produced by Darabont, Kirkman, David Alpert, Charles H. Developed for television by Frank Darabont, who wrote or co-wrote four of the season's six episodes and directed the pilot episode, " Days Gone Bye", the series is based on the eponymous series of comic books by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. The first season of The Walking Dead, an American post-apocalyptic horror television series on AMC, premiered on October 31, 2010, and concluded on December 5, 2010, consisting of 6 episodes.