Robert Kirkman's WALKING DEAD coming to AMC!! From Frank Darabont!!

[Jedi_Master_Guyute]

http://chud.com/articles/articles/20428/1/DARABONT-TAKES-THE-WALKING-DEAD-TO-TV/Page1.html

I am so freakin' excited about this!!! :thumbsup:

[Ji'dai]

A TV series? Really?

How are they going to pull off all that gore and horror with the censorship on television? I don't know if can watch just another soap opera with the living dead being relegated to the background.

Loved the book though and have read through the first 5 or 6 TPBs.

[El Chuxter]

Haven't read it, and normally loathe zombie stories, but this one came so highly recommended that I got the first volume at Comic-Con.

[Ji'dai]

A Y: The Last Man television series would be cool too. Especially if it was on one of the premium channels - HBO or Showtime.

I would tune in every week for Walking Dead on HBO!

[Rocketboy]

A Y: The Last Man television series would be cool too. Especially if it was on one of the premium channels - HBO or Showtime.

I would tune in every week for Walking Dead on HBO!Those are 2 series I'm reading in trades right now. I'm half way through Y, then I'll continue TWD (I've only got the first trade of that one so far).

As far as I know they are still working on a Y movie (maybe with Shia LeaBeouf as Yorrick, which I actually could kinda maybe agree with), which will possibly be a trilogy of films.

Also, can't wait for The Walking Dead series!

[Ji'dai]

As far as I know they are still working on a Y movie (maybe with Shia LeaBeouf as Yorrick, which I actually could kinda maybe agree with), which will possibly be a trilogy of films. I'd heard there was a Y movie in development but haven't heard much about it in awhile. I've read all but the last volume in that series.

[Rocketboy]

I'd heard there was a Y movie in development but haven't heard much about it in awhile. I've read all but the last volume in that series.The last item I heard was back in late June when there seemed to be a question if LeBeouf was still attached/interested.
Slashfilm (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/22/shia-labeouf-talks-y-the-last-man-absolutely-still-a-chance-for-the-film/) said:

For the last couple years, director DJ Caruso and his Disturbia and Eagle Eye star Shia LaBeouf (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/22/shia-labeouf-talks-y-the-last-man-absolutely-still-a-chance-for-the-film/#) were talking about adapting Brian K Vaughn’s post-apocalyptic series Y: The Last Man. It was an ambitious plan, which could have led to multiple films tackling the bulk of the sixty-issue series. Then, while promoting Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, LaBeouf said he was backing away from Y because the character was too much like his Transformers character (http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/09/shia-labeouf-no-longer-interested-in-y-the-last-man/). But now, because rising stars almost never say they’ll never do a project, LaBeouf says it could still happen.


“Y: The Last Man is my favorite comic book,” said LaBeouf. “It’s also DJ Caruso’s favorite comic book. We DO want to make it. It’s just too “Sam Witwicky”…It’s not as big as a variation for me. I want to do something that’s foreign.” But the film isn’t anywhere near being ready to go, and in fact Caruso’s next picture is now said to be the seemingly superfluous Jack and the Beanstalk. But asked about whether he might do the film in a year or two, Shia predictably told Collider (http://www.collider.com/2009/06/21/exclusive-interview-shia-labeouf-talks-y-the-last-man-says-the-project-could-still-happen/) “Absolutely, man!” Because why would he say no?


[Brian K] Vaughn and [Carl] Ellsworth and DJ are writing the script now. The script is not ready to be shot. DJ is making a different movie right now. He’s making “Jack and the Beanstalk”. There’s just other things going on with DJ and I wouldn’t want to make the movie with anybody else because he loves it like I do. But I don’t think Vaughn is trying to give it to anybody else. I think that it is something that’s very realistic, it’s just not in the pipe for the next year.

[Ji'dai]

So a film version is really a long way off then. Both Y: The Last Man and The Walking Dead would work well as a limited-run TV series. Commercial-free and little-to-no censorship would be best.

[Jedi_Master_Guyute]

So a film version is really a long way off then. Both Y: The Last Man and The Walking Dead would work well as a limited-run TV series. Commercial-free and little-to-no censorship would be best.

A&E has some pretty decent shows, so I wouldn't worry too much about censorship. It has some gore yes, but you could easily use some camera trickery for any nudity, etc.

On the spawn boards, we were talking about who we'd want to play Rick. Somebody mentioned Fillion (as he has to come up for everything. lol) and I could see that, but Ron Livingston came up and I LOVED that idea.

[Rocketboy]

Fillion can play anything, but he's busy with Castle right now. Tom Jane could also do it, but he's doing Hung for HBO/Showtime.

I like Ron Livingston as Rick. I think that would work pretty well.

[Ji'dai]

Man, I don't recognize any of those names. I know Tom Jane played Frank Castle in that crappy movie adaptation of Marvel's vigilante. I'm not very up-to-date on TV actors. I guess if they don't do cartoon voice work I don't know who they are.

[Rocketboy]

Man, I don't recognize any of those names. I know Tom Jane played Frank Castle in that crappy movie adaptation of Marvel's vigilante.No, that was Ray Stevenson and Dolph Lundgren. Tom Jane was the good one.


I'm not very up-to-date on TV actors. I guess if they don't do cartoon voice work I don't know who they are.Fillion was on Friefly/Serenity, Slither, Captain Hammer in Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible, and his current show Castle. And the male lead voice in the Wonder Woman DVD.

Ron Livingston is probably best known as the lead in Office Space or from Band of Brothers.

[El Chuxter]

Tom Jane was a good Punisher in a mediocre movie. But he was awesome playing himself on Arrested Development.

[Jedi_Master_Guyute]

Tom Jane was a good Punisher in a mediocre movie. But he was awesome playing himself on Arrested Development.

He just wanted his kids back!

[Bel-Cam Jos]

He just wanted his kids back!I thought that was Mel Gibson in Ransom. :GIMMEBACKMYSON: