The Walking Dead: AMC Series adapted from comic

AMC released a HQ version of the Comicon trailer that was shown this year. Great director, horrible (imo) trailer. Music riffs on 28 days after.

Be very interesting to see how things are adapted from the comic book (which is ongoing).


http://www.amctv.com/originals/The-Walki...id=593569611001

 

I think it looks great and AMC have been on a roll lately with shows (Mad men and Breaking bad).

Plus I been waiting for a zombie TV series and Walking dead is perfect for that.

 

Looks pretty contrived to me. Man wakes up in hospital during zombie outbreak is a direct steal from 28 Days Later. You couldn't get less played out than that. Man looking to save his wife and kids from the (zombie) apocalypse has been done in hundreds of films already: War of the Worlds, Signs, The Crazies, The Mist, 2012, and the list goes on. Why is it that in every apocalypse movie the male hero protagonist is always trying to save his wife and kids? Aren't we done with that convention yet? Get yourself to the city where it is safe. What am I watching Land of the Dead? And in The Crazies, the sheriff of a town, during a zombie outbreak, decides that he'd rather try to save his family than survive on his own, which is exactly what the AMC trailer basically revealed that the plot was going to be. A sheriff during a zombie outbreak trying to save his family was just done in The Crazies last year.

To me this looks like it's going to be a collection of watered down zombie clichés thrown into a commercialized television show. At least with HBO (OZ, Sopranos, True Blood) and Showtime (Dexter) they can tackle adult themes and violence, especially without commercial interruptions, without pandering to the lowest common denominator. Maybe AMC will surprise, like with Mad Man or Breaking Bad, but I expect this series to fall more in line with the weak drivel like Rubicon.

 

the trailer is horrible in my opinion.

comparing 28 days later and The Walking Dead on the basis of that one scene is like saying Sopranos is a rip-off of The Godfather because it deals with the mob. it's the springboard, not the story. 28 days later and The Walking Dead were, like, 6 months apart (I believe, I could totally be wrong) and both would have been worked on for time before their debut (the movie moreso) but it isn't uncommon for this kind of thing to happen. homage, rip-off, accidental similarity or just a convenient "I need to pop the main character AND the audience into this world at the same time"...it's the smallest part of the series. They don't, however, do themselves any favours by borrowing the soundtrack.


The Walking Dead does completely own up The Crazies (although that was a remake and I've never seen the source) in terms of publishing. The comic is on issue 76. typical yearly run is 12 issues so....

the story line in The Walking Dead goes beyond the "where's my wife and kid" which is why I think this is a shitty trailer. The first season is only 6 episodes long so, really, maybe that's the arc and all they can honestly show since nothing else is in production but I don't like it.

I do like The Walking Dead as a comic and think it could do well as a series. Robert Kirkman wrote The Walking Dead because no other story had really tackled zombies with ongoing survival in mind. the infestation just...ends at some point. It was a cop out and he wanted to explore survival in a world infested with the walking dead...what it takes to survive, where the limits are, etc.

All in all it's fairly compelling. at issue 40ish I thought it was going to long and then he really got me hooked in again. I doubt the show can deal with everything the comic does.

 

Because all of that stuff is just the setup? The Walking Dead is just as much about zombies as it is about the transformations people go through without an organized society. Very few mainstream zombie works of fiction deal with the prolonged effects that a zombie outbreak would have on a group of people and that's what the comic and show are about. There are plenty of adult themes in the comic the were not previewed in the slightest. But you're more than welcome to avoid the show and the resulting discussions since you seem to be cynical about everything you encounter.

 

also: 28days is a complete rip off of Day of the Triffids. in both set up and certain plot points. just, in case, you know, anyone cared.

 

In the middle of this huge vampire pop culture craze somehow HBO managed to unleash True Blood and basically blow everything else right out of the water. Maybe AMC will take a zombie apocalypse story and somehow keep it fresh amid the swarm of zombie films that we've seen over the last few years. But the zombie apocalypse genre is just too overcrowded and I expect far too much familiarity with this series especially because AMC will not be able too get to graphic or too serious because they are limited as a commercial television station.

Shows like True Blood and Dexter basically have no rules because they are on premium channels. Those shows can be dark and sophisticated as much as they want. AMC does not have that luxury afforded to them and they are at the mercy of commercial interruptions and different broadcasting standards. I'm betting that AMC will have to hold back on a lot of compelling stuff simply because of artificial broadcast restrictions.

 

Well True Blood Season 2 was a pile but the new season is quite good (albeit completely soft porn now).

you're right though, AMC will definitely choose to not show some of the more "interesting" parts of the series simply because they will not be able to

 

Emp, what are you saying? Have you seen Breaking Bad on AMC. True they can't say the F word but hey, disolving a corpse in a bathtub of acid, and letting the resulting goo drop through the ceiling is no sesame street.

Besides, if you're into the Walking Dead for the gore and cussing you're missing the point.

Lol @ true blood though. That show is getting crap real fast.

 

The cop waking up from the coma is how the comic begins. It will be kind of shitty change the beginning even though its a nod to 28 days later.

 

If you guys want to get your latest zombie apocalypse fix, watch the current anime series Highschool Of The Dead. No space between High and school.

It's currently on episode 8. I daresay it has the potential to become a "classic", that's how good it is.

Though the excessive (srsly) fanservice will probably prevent it from becoming a classic...

 

I just started watching its and I'm liking it so far.

 

I'm about 24 minutes into the pre-air. not bad. It will be a shame when Darabont is no longer directing through.

 

Where are you watching the pre-air at(online or other)?

 

QSS.

 

Or you can read the Manga of High of the School Dead it has more boobs than the anime version

 

http://www.deadline.com/2010/11/the-walk...f-for-season-2/

 

I have read 79 issues of The Walking Dead, 78 before I even heard about the series on TV. Gotta say, with how easy it is to fuck up a comic adaptation, I kinda like this one. It's good, it would be sad if something went wrong with the show.

Here is to it reaching at least 5 seasons
Cheers!