The Walking Dead
August 26, 2010
AMC has posted up the 4.5 minute trailer for their upcoming series The Walking Dead - same deal they showed at Comic Con this year. Looks as though it's going to do plenty of justice to Robert Kirkman's black-and-white comic book of the same name. Series kicks off this Halloween with a 1.5-hour premiere.
As we see in the trailer, it's got the same guy-wakes-up-from-coma start as 28 Days Later, but that's where the similarities end. TWD bundles their brain eating with a talky character drama type narrative. I recall entire issues of the comic where the dead hardly saw any ink at all. Fortunately, Kirkman's got solid story-telling chops, and was always good about breaking up long exposition with a zombie bustin' through the window or whatever. You're also getting the old-school sluggish, shambling style undead, as opposed to the 28 Days full-tilt berserker "rage virus" hordes.
Additional details - behind the scenes stuff, set photos, etc - at the official Walking Dead blog.
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