Le scénariste et réalisateur américain Frank Darabont (Frankenstein (1994), Les Évadés, La Ligne verte, The Mist) est actuellement en train d'écrire et de produire une adaptation du comics The Walking Dead de Robert Kirkman dont la chaine AMC (Mad Men, Breaking Bad) vient d'acheter les droits.
Darabont devrait également réaliser le pilote, et David Alpert l'accompagner à la production. A noter que Darabont avait déjà commencé le développement de ce projet il y a quelques années pour NBC.
The Walking Dead raconte les années qui ont suivies une apocalypse zombie et pendant lesquelles un groupe de survivants, mené par l'officier de police Rick Grimes, voyage à la recherche d'un lieu sûr. Le comics dépeint les défis auxquels le groupe doit faire face dans leurs conflits avec les zombies mais aussi entre eux.
Encore un projet plus qu'alléchant pour AMC, et mené par un maître du genre !
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Last week's announcement that the brilliant Robert Kirkman comic book series "The Walking Dead" was headed to AMC as a television series directed by Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption," "The Mist") was easily one of my favorite stories of the week. The combination of Kirkman's bleak, character-driven story with Darabont's considerable talent at bringing exactly those sort of stories to the screen seems like the perfect match—but it's a project that almost went in an entirely different direction, according to a recent report.
According to BleedingCool, "Hellboy" (and "The Hobbit") director Guillermo Del Toro was originally attached to bring Kirkman's tale of life after of the zombie apocalypse to the small screen. Instead of landing at AMC, the series was proposed as an HBO project, intended to be a sister series to vampire drama "True Blood."
"Until San Diego Comic Con, HBO believed the series was all but signed on the dotted line, arranged as a sister show to True Blood, although certain demands had yet to be met," reported the website. "Negotiations were broken off and rumours circulated (and were denied) that Kirkman’s management company Circle Of Confusion was shipping the property elsewhere. Which, it now seems, were on the money."
While all of this rests firmly in the realm of unconfirmed and unofficial, it still makes for an intriguing combination of "What If?" scenarios. AMC's track record with "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad" is certainly nothing to scoff at (the latter being one of my favorite recent television series), but the freedom offered by HBO programming would seem a good fit for the adult themes and graphic violence of "The Walking Dead."
And what about Del Toro's involvement instead of Darabont? While Darabont seems the perfect fit for the series' tone, Del Toro also seems more than up to the task, given the dark vibe of projects like "Pan's Labyrinth."
Either way, it's a good time to be a fan of "The Walking Dead." It should be an interesting time ahead of us, folks.
Des Zombies!
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Bon, je ne connais pas le comics mais si c'est Franck Darabont derrière, c'est une très bonne nouvelle, son dernier bébé "The Mist" est une bombe qui me fait chialer et terrifie à chaque vision (j'ai du l'avoir déjà maté 5 fois!) même si à l'inverse La Ligne Verte m'ennuie profondément, bah ca promet!Si c'est Del Toro, c'est bien aussi ou si c'est une collaboration??? Après je n'ai pas tt compris à la news en anglais! Je ne connais pas la chaine AMC mais ce que propose HBO est incontestablement Better!
