The Walking Dead to hit AMC Channel

Flesh, blood and American Classics.

If you’re a fan of zombies, a fan of comic books, and a fan of horror, chances are you’ve heard of Robert Kirkman’s never-ending zombie apocalypse survival epoch, The Walking Dead, now over sixty issues and six years in. The ongoing comic series has reached Geek Hall of Fame and has become one of the most awesome pieces of zombie culture. Sitting alongside Max Brook’s works, The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, and George A. Romero’s The Living Dead series of films. Within the past decade, it could be considered the best piece of zombie horror literature to hit bookshelves across the world.

Like any piece of pop culture growing fast, it’ll get attention. Being something zombie, a lot of hands will be wanting to grab at it to expand its fame. The time has come for The Walking Dead to expand its influence past word bubbles and panels. The Channel formally know as American Movie Classics, where a lot of great movies have had their chance to appear in living rooms, has obtained the rights to the franchise to create a television adaptation of the comic book series.

Great news as that is, even greater news overtops that great news. It’s like a big fluffy layer cake of greatness, iced with chocolaty zombie goodness all around. Yum. The designer of this zombie layer cake is none other than Frank Darabont, the Stephen King novel-adapter maestro. Coming off dramatic masterpieces The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, you’d suspect a hint of drama, or some eerily real atmospheres to be present in this coming television adaptation. One thing’s for sure, this cake of greatness will taste of fleshy, bloody awesome. My favourite flavour.

Joining Darabont, it’s rumoured that Gale Anne Hurd will be involved in the production. Producer and writer of many action greats like The Terminator series, my hopes are high that the two will combine compelling drama and non-stop action to the already marketable franchise that Kirkman and zombie culture has provided to fans. Still in production however, a set date has not been released as to when a pilot may be seen on the channel. Still, among Mad Men and Breaking Bad marathons, we can’t help but to stay hungry for some imminent zombie chaos.