The Walking Dead. new zombie series on AMC 10/31/10
 

:DI am probably the last one to know about this, but just in case. The Walking Dead is a comic book about a cop and his family surviving the Zombie Apocalypse. Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist) and Gale Ann Hurd (producer of The Terminator and many other action movies) are the producers and have turned it into a television series. It premieres on Halloween.

I haven't checked, but I imagine that Darabont will probably have directed a couple episodes.

Once again I'm probably the last one to learn about this, but I haven't seen anyone taking about it.

It appears that our hero is carrying either a 6" nickle plated Colt Python or a glossy stainless steel Taurus. Well I'll get a better look in the future.

It should be interesting. I imagine that such a show will be pretty expensive to produce. At least it looks like it has high production values in the trailers.

ADDITIONAL(Whoops) :o:o

Okay I just finished typing this and THEN I read the fall lineup thread for the first time. Oh well. :D

Because it looks like it's going to be awesome, it'll probably only last a few episodes

Yeah I'm thinking the same thing. Hope we're both wrong. The comic book wasn't bad.

Doesn't everyone die in the comic?

Evidently it is still in print (2003 - Present) and several of the original characters are still alive. I just looked it up.

Okay found a good screencap on imdb. Our hero is using what appear to be a stainless steel Colt Python with a 6" barrel.

I'm definately looking forward to it.

And AMC is in the habit of NOT cancelling awesome TB series. Breaking Bad and Mad Men for example.

This is true.

I thought his Python was nickel, but it's kinda hard to tell with the little trailer.

A page has been built for it. http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Walki...ries%29%2C_The

You know it's hard to identify the difference between the matte stainless steel and Colt's proprierty matte nickle finish. It was a special nickle finish that was developed by Colt and it wore like iron. I used to own a Colt Trooper Mk III with that nickle finish. I had the revolver for twenty years and the finish never did show any real wear. Stuff was amazing and from a distance you would think it was stainless steel. But I went with stainless steel just because. I figure the story takes place in the south (humid and hot) and it makes sense that a cop would want a stainless steel revolver due to the heat, moisture, time spent in a holster and exposure to things like body fluids.

I just watched all six episodes of the first season yesterday night, and another this morning. Highly enjoyable series, even though I'm not big into zombie fare (which seems to make me unique amongst American gun owners).

What's really funny is that I also watched "Chris Ryan's Strike Back" last week, in which Andrew Lincoln (the actor who plays Grimes in "The Walking Dead") had a starring role. I remember thinking to myself, "Where I have I seen this dude before", and then being surprised when I looked him up on IMDB and found out he was an Englishman.

I'm getting tired of the zombie themed stories. This one showed more character development, but I wished it had more shootouts

Eh, I was a little bit disappointed by the lack of shootouts at first, but eventually I was won over by the human elements, which is a good thing.

Good characters and different formula made this great, most zombie movies are formulaic with stereotypical characters that are mostly 2d and emotionless. This was a refreshing difference.

What I like best is the way that this series conveys the psychological toll of the situation upon the characters (i.e. the guy who digs graves, the way that many of them become hard-drinkers when they enter the CDC, etc.) Even the love triangle, which is something I would find normally find boring and distracting, is done well.

In most other zombie stories, the drama would come from plot devices and the zombies themselves, and the characters would be mostly static (good guys are always brave and wise, self-serving cowards always act cowardly, etc.) Whereas the characters in this show all become changed - for either good or bad - regardless of how they start out. Shane (Jon Bernthal's character) goes from being a leader to an unstable, hot-headed alcoholic, while Daryl (Norman Reedus' character) is slowly becoming less of a racist misanthrope and more of a team player. At the same time, none of them change so much that it's unbelievable or out-of-character.