Recently AMC greenlighted the production of a pilot episode for long running horror-comic The Walking Dead. Frank Darabont, most well known for directing Stephen King film adaptations The Shawshank Redeption and The Green Mile as well as The Majestic, is tapped to direct this adaptation of Robert Kirkman's series.
The big question on my mind is whether or not a television series set in a zombie apocalypse will work, especially one that is on a basic cable channel such as AMC. Don't get me wrong, AMC has brought us great series such as Mad Men and Breaking Bad, but can they get away with the graphic violence and tone that a horror series would require? As much as I would like to see this show be great, I think it would find a better home on HBO or Showtime. Despite that problem, however, there is a lot of potential in a zombie apocalypse television series, more so than movies, because of the ability to tell longer stories with more developed characters. Zombies movies often feel to rushed, and are filled with genre cliche's that cut down on screen-time by rehashing what audiences are already used to. This series has a great opportunity to be a breath of fresh air in a rather stale genre.
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