The Walking Dead

[Jeffbiscuits]

The Walking Dead. Is anyone else looking forward to this? Solid/gruesome source material and a director who's proven to work well in the horror genre, although this should be more of a zombie soap opera. I read the first few issues of the comic and it looked to be building up very well. Think it will transfer well to the screen.

[Lizhawkins]

I've got it series linked on sky +. Zombies kind of freak me out but I thought I'd give it a whirl...

[Porkchopexpress]

Really excited about this, have followed the graphic novel on and off for a few years and while it never offered anything ground breaking in terms of zombie lore, the idea of an ongoing series based around a zombie apocalypse just gets my geek gland pumping serious adrenawin!

With Darabont at the helm, I'm expecting big things, I think it's an initial six episode series, but I think it's already been picked up for series two. There's an overwhelming amount of source material and the author is actively involved.

Andrew Lincoln is an actor I've followed ever since 'This Life', nice to hopefully see him get his time in the limelight and give me a guilty pleasure akin to seeing Jack Davenport pop up in 'Pirates et al'.

Side note, I'm still looking forward to movie adaptation of 'World War Z', the market is saturated with low rent Zombie flicks and always has been since the eighties, but there's always a diamond amongst the piles of coal.

'28 Days Later', 'Rec' and Snyder's 'Dawn' remake being outstanding, I saw 'The Horde' for a fiver in ASDA today was sorely tempted.

[Jeffbiscuits]

I only read as far as book 3 I think and things were getting pretty gruesome. I really can't wait for this and hopefully it can take over from dexter as my essential weekly viewing.

[Jeffbiscuits]

Anyone else watch it? I just finished watching the first episode. It was pretty good. Andrew Lincoln was well cast in the lead role and pulled off an impressive American accent. No high-speed zombies either although I'm pretty sure I saw a couple of them jogging at one point. A good, solid piece of Friday night entertainment which I think in a couple of weeks could build up to be something much better.

[jaykays hat]

Originally Posted by Jeffbiscuits

Anyone else watch it? I just finished watching the first episode. It was pretty good. Andrew Lincoln was well cast in the lead role and pulled off an impressive American accent. No high-speed zombies either although I'm pretty sure I saw a couple of them jogging at one point. A good, solid piece of Friday night entertainment which I think in a couple of weeks could build up to be something much better.

I watched it too and really enjoyed it, it was good to see brits in the leading roles too.

[Jeffbiscuits]

Originally Posted by jaykays hat

I watched it too and really enjoyed it, it was good to see brits in the leading roles too.

I kinda hope this is a sign of things to come. Seeing parts which werae clearly written for americans being filled by brits can only be a good thing, another case in point being Hugh Laurie in House. British actors seem to be getting these leading roles more often and hopefully therefore will be less typecast as villains and terrorists in american TV and films.