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Frank Darabont writing and directing 'The Walking Dead' series for AMC

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- Sarah Wayne Callies Joins 'Walking Dead'
This just in: Prison Break fave Sarah Wayne Callies has just scored the female lead in AMC’s eagerly anticipated The Walking Dead series, based on Robert Kirkman’s megapopular comic books!

The Ausiello Files fave will portray Lori Grimes, the slowly-unraveling wife of the show’s hero, Rick (Andrew Lincoln). Which oughta be a nice stretch for her: How do you play disturbed by zombie gore and such after you’ve already played someone who was beheaded? (Yes, I know, it was a hoax!)
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More casting.
THR Live Feed said:
AMC adds actor, producer to 'Walking Dead'

AMC has added to the cast of Frank Darabont’s apocalyptic zombie drama “The Walking Dead.”

The production has tapped Laurie Holden for the role of Andrea, a key member of the survivor group who has a proficiency with a sniper rifle and falls for a man twice her age.

Holden was in writer-producer-director Darabont’s “The Mist” and had a recurring role in the final season of FX’s “The Shield.” She’s repped by APA and Framework.

Also, Adam Fierro has joined the production as a consulting producer. The ICM-repped Fierro has worked on such serialized dramas as “Dexter,” “The Shield” and “24.”

In addition, newcomer Steven Yeun also has been added to “The Walking Dead” cast as Glenn. He and Holden join cast members Andrew Lincoln, Jeffrey DeMunn and Jon Bernthal on the show.

The eagerly anticipated "Walking Dead" starts production in August.
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Looks purdy enough I guess.

God damn, at the risk of repeating myself I know nothing about the cast so far :lol

Edit: Whoa, she was the policewoman from Silent Hill. She is good, if maybe a bit old for Andrea... I always thought she was twentysomething.
 
Aint It Cool just posted an interview with Robert Kirkman, here are some choice excerpts


I’ve read some of your tweets where you are saying you were location scouting. The impression I get is AMC seems to be really getting behind the show. Is that right?

Yeah, AMC is giving us a huge deal of support and they have already shown that they have a lot of confidence in the show just by immediately picking up the six episode first season without ever even starting to shoot the pilot, which I’m told is fairly unusual, so I’m pretty excited with how the process has been going so far.
Everyone’s moving full speed ahead. That’s kind of a fun thing because like you say you talked to Frank like five years ago and there was a time when it was going to be a pilot at NBC, but that kind of fell through and Frank kind of stayed in the picture and kept in touch with me and did his best to do things behind the scenes to try and get it made because he really likes the comic and I think was really gung-ho about making it.

The funny thing to me is five years went by and it was a little bit more than a year ago when Frank called me and said “Hey, I think AMC is interested in this.” They optioned it in September of last year, I think, and then in January they were like “Hey, we are making the show.” Then from January up until now, it has been nonstop. It just cracks me up how things can move so slowly and then as soon as they decide to make a show it’s like a hundred things happening at once.

So right now it’s like full speed ahead and they are moving forward with this pilot. They are going to be shooting all summer for the first six episodes. Frank is in Atlanta right now doing prep, so he’s kind of hard at it. They start shooting in, I think, a week.
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AMC has, obviously, been very supportive, but what can you get away with on AMC, in terms of graphic language and the intensity of the violence and stuff like that?

You know, we just had a long meeting about this. There are some language restrictions. You’re not going to be dropping the F-bomb on AMC, which is fine. It’s not like if no one ever said the “f” word in WALKING DEAD the comic book, people would miss it.
I think the best way to put it is if you have ever watched BREAKING BAD…. they push the limit in BREAKING BAD quite often. There’s severed heads on the back of turtles, there’s liquefied bodies falling through ceilings, somebody just got their head blown off recently. I don’t want to spoil anything, but there’s very graphic nasty stuff that’s on BREAKING BAD all of the time and the thing that I was very excited to learn about AMC is that there is no limitation to how much of that you can have per episode or per hour or per minute.
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Here’s a question that I know a lot of fans have asked… I’ve seen this pop up a lot in our talkback. Has there been any talk at all about shooting the show in black and white?

No, no there isn’t. I have a concern that if people were flipping the channels and they saw something that was in black and white, they might think it was an old movie. It’s just something that’s usually not done on television and while I think it’s neat and I know Darabont likes black and white a lot, that’s why there’s a black and white version of THE MIST on the DVD and he wanted to do the movie in black and white originally. I don’t know that there’s going to be a black and white version of the show on the DVD. There might be, but it just doesn’t make sense as a television show for a lot of reasons.
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The rest of it is here
 
I'm just so excited for this. Hopefully it can fill a little of the hole that LOST left :(.

To expand on his violience quote:

Robert Kirkman: Anything you have seen in BREAKING BAD we can do every minute of our show. And then also there’s a lot of things you can get away with, because they are zombies, so you will be seeing all kinds of cool stuff that you would expect to see in THE WALKING DEAD: THE TV SHOW, so while it isn’t a pay cable channel, I think that people are still going to get what they want.

Quint: That’s good, because having a neutered zombie show is definitely not ideal, especially when you have people like KNB on board who can tear people up pretty good.
Robert Kirkman: Oh yeah. Nicotero has already been doing make-up tests on all of the zombies and there’s a bite test that I’ve seen. There’s a head shot test… So there’s all kinds of cool stuff that he’s already done on the show that just looks amazing.

Quint: I haven’t seen anything yet, but I’ve heard that Nicotero’s zombies are very Adlard-ish.

Robert Kirkman: Yeah, they are very true to the comics.
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So want this to be awesome. Despite all the reassurances, I'm still anxious about how much the source material will have to be toned down (mainly when it comes down to impact wounds and language).
 
itsinmyveins said:
Take a look at Carnivale then. I know they shut it down after just two seasons but it's pretty damn good, judging from the first season.
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THIS!

Carnivàle is still an amazing show, one of the very, very best of the 2000s. And the main arc of the first two seasons was, more or less, resolved. They serve as the first 'act' of a planned three 'act' structure, for six total seasons.
 
Atlanta GAF, try out!

Right now, vampires, werewolves and zombies are popular in television and film.
A new television series, "The Walking Dead," starts filming in Atlanta on Wednesday. Actually, it's the pilot for AMC that begins filming next week.

The filming schedule is June 11-13 and July 2-4 during the day in Atlanta.

If you want to play a zombie on TV, e-mail twdextras@gmail.com If you're accepted, you have to go to "Zombie School," where you'll learn how to walk and act like a zombie. And if you pass, you'll get to be a zombie extra from June until September.

"The Walking Dead" is based on a comic book about a police officer in Kentucky, whose town is overrun with zombies. He gets shot and when he recovers, he discovers that survivors are told to go to Atlanta. He goes to Atlanta to find his family and friends.
AMC ordered the pilot and five episodes.
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http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2010/05/28/1139475/wanna-be-a-zombie-in-a-new-tv.html
 
Hadn't heard about this. The whole project sounds awesome. Thanks for the heads-up, I live near Atlanta and shot them an email about being a zombie. :D
 
Well, AMC went ahead an ordered 6 episode before the Pilot was even shot. If/when S2 comes around (everyone is assuming it is, as per Kirkman) it should be a regular 13 episode order.

Edit: That zombie looks good!
 
BattleMonkey said:
Not really best choice for Andrea, a bit too "pretty". Andrea was not really a babe in the comics.
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Sure she was. She, and her sister, were "young, beautiful girls." That
scar
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DAMN IT!!! I'll be in Savannah the first filming period and will be at the Phish shows for the second filming period! I'd be a great fucking zombie! RAGE!
 
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