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.

[jaykays hat]

Originally Posted by Jeffbiscuits

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.

and Tim Roth in Lie to Me.

[Porkchopexpress]

I finally caught the first episode, had big expectations and for once, wasn't disappointed. Fairly faithful to the original material, although the opening scene at the gas station felt very disjointed as a prologue to the first episode.

I like what they did with the guy and his kid and the mother, I don't remember that from the original graphic novel and thought it worked well as an emotional trigger.

Didn't skimp on the gore did it? Although it was CGI heavy, what's wrong with a squib?

Lot's of familiar visual refrences to Kirkman's stuff without being overly referential, i.e. shot for panel copies, over all done very well.

I think it's a bit of a shame it came out after '28 days Later' which has almost stolen a riff on it, as I'm pretty sure 'The Walking Dead' was written before? *shrug*

Gratuitous equine violence is always welcome, not since 'The Ring' remake when that horse took a nosedive of a ferry have I cried into my saddle bags.

Always wanted a 'Zombie' ongoing, most Zombie films always leave me wanting to know how, why, what and wtf happened to society, the aftermath is always cool, but a bit cliched due to market saturation, I like to know more about how it all escalates and the epidemiology of it all. So I'm hoping for some flashbacks.

That's why I quite liked 'World War Z''s (Max Brooks novel) style and how it charts the pandemic nature of it all, albeit with some dodgy national sterotypes.

Oh yeah and 'Zombieland' was totally over rated, barely raised a chuckle.

"Hey dumbass, yeah you in the tank..."

[Jeffbiscuits]

The Walking Dead comics started fairly recently. I'm pretty sure they were written after 28 Days Later. I agree about how it's a good thing to have an ongoing story about zombies. It's something that was attempted with the 28 Days/Weeks Later story arc but the ball was dropped with the poor second film. I hope The Walking Dead continues the standard it's set to provide a continuing, hopefully more in depth take on a zombie story. Forgot about Tim Roth.