I’m going to preface this review by admitting that I have only read the first The Walking Dead trade paperback. I read it at the end of last year but resisted reading the second trade as all interviews indicated that the show would be quite faithful to the book. Having read the pilot script I am glad of this.

Frank Darabont’s pilot script, as you may have read elsewhere, is very true to the first few issues of Robert Kirkman’s comic. The episode opens and closes with the character of Rick …

WALTER WHITE: We tried to poison you.  We tried to poison you because you’re an insane, degenerate piece of filth and you deserve to die.

Teacher. Husband. Father. Cancer patient. On paper, Walter White (the brillaint Bryan Cranston) is an incredibly sympathetic man who you can’t help but feel sorry for. Season One of AMC’s spectacular Breaking Bad worked hard in establishing its protagonist as an ultimately good guy, someone to root for. He gave up on the opportunity to be a rich scientist, instead working as a high school …

Cable network AMC have acquired the rights to develop Robert Kirkman’s The Waking Dead into a series.  The Hollywood Reporter notes The Shawshank Redemption’s Oscar nominated writer Frank Darabont is onboard to write, produce and direct the series which will focus on the minutiae of a group of survivors getting by in a zombie-ridden world.
AMC are confident that, despite the genre element of the project, it will be a perfect fit on their schedule, which already includes Breaking Bad and Mad Men.