AMC greenlights ‘The Walking Dead’ TV series
Following on from the news in January that AMC had ordered the pilot for a TV series of the best genre comic ever, ‘The Walking Dead’, comes the annoncement that a six episode series has been greenlit by AMC. The project has been on a fast track after AMC won a bidding war last August for the rights to the comic. AMC must have a lot of confidence in Frank Darabont’s vision for the series after greenlighting a whole season while the pilot is still being cast. Hopefully this vision will do the brilliant comic justice.
The series is set to premiere in October during ‘Fearfest’, the annual AMC horror marathon.
More details can be found here in this Hollywood Reporter article here, and a Variety one here.
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