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[Wylie Times]

Bra att du sa till där. Då ska jag se till att hålla mig så spoilerfri som det bara går fram tills att den får premiär.

Du som har läst serien är väl ganska ordentligt spoilrad redan.

Edited by Wylie Times, 04 June 2010 - 14:24.

[Cartman]

Point taken.

Men du förstår vad jag menar. Tror jag iaf.

Jag är iaf riktigt pepp på det här projektet då det verkar upplagd för att kunna bli riktigt, riktigt bra.

[Crusader]

Skådespelarna som spelar Zombies måste gå i Zombieskola först.

Och så en liten bild från TV-serien:

[Synon]

Verkligen ruggig bild! Lovande

[Wylie Times]

Man kan se en viss skillnad jämfört med de blåpudrade zombierna i Dawn of the Dead.

[Synon]

Michael Rooker kommer att spela Merle, en ny karaktär som ej finns med i originalserien. Kul för alla er som kan serien utan och innan, här får ni ett wildcard som ni inte har en aning om vad det är för någon. Eller?

Michael Rooker to Fight the Zombiepocalypse For Frank Darabont
06.11.10

Every time I think AMC and Frank Darabont's The Walking Dead television series can't get any more awesome, it somehow does. Last week, we were all treated to our first look at some of the show's zombies. Earlier this week we got an interview with Darabont where he states Romero's Night of the Living Dead is the show's bible when it comes to how zombies behave. Great stuff, but today's news is even cooler.

Dread Central has confirmed that Darabont has cast fan favorite actor Michael Rooker in his series. That's right, Henry is gonna fight zombies! Rooker will be playing a character named Merle -- who apparently didn't appear in Robert Kirkman's comic. No word yet on who Merle might be in the grand scheme of things, but does it really matter? It's Michael Rooker -- it's not like he's gonna screw it up.

Rooker broke the news on his Twitter stream yesterday. I highly recommend following him. He doesn't tweet often, but it's amusing when he does.

Early online reaction to Rooker's casting has been oddly mixed. Everyone seems to love the actor, but some of the comic book's most devoted fans appeared worried that Darabont is shoehorning a new character into the series early on and that it might mess up the way things develop. I suppose that's a valid concern, but I'm willing to give the director a lot of slack given that he got Michael Rooker to take on the role.

We'll know how this all works out one way or the other by October, when the series is set to debut on AMC.

Vänta nu, kommer den först i oktober?!? O no, vilken lång väntan! Jag vill se den nu!

[Cartman]

What does it take to transform human beings into members of the walking dead? Some serious training, according to executive producer Gale Anne Hurd. Learn how to act like a zombie (and check out some footage of roamers-in-training) as Hurd, writer/director Frank Darabont, special make-up FX artist Greg Nicotero, and zombie choreographer Matt Kent walk you through "Zombie School".

Klippet finns att se här.

[Synon]

I väntan på...

A Tank of a Good Time on 'The Walking Dead' Set
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

While you can read our set visit preview here on Bloody Disgusting, AMC just posted a new interview with production designer Greg Melton, while also sharing a new behind-the-scenes image from the set of The Walking Dead, their live-action comic adaptation now filming in Atlanta, Georgia. Premiering this October on AMC - the company behind "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad" - the project is set among a group of zombie survivors of an apocalypse who are led by a police officer, Rick Grimes, in search of a safe place to live.

Q: How did you approach designing for The Walking Dead?

A: I did Tales From the Crypt for many years, and I always approached that show from a realism standpoint -- trying to set up a realistic world, and then let the surreal horror spin out of it. And that's the strategy I've taken with this, to root it in reality as much as possible and let Rick move through this world and see it get more and more skewed. A great example is when he wakes up in the hospital. It just gets worse and worse. It's like there was a running gun battle through this hospital. There were grenades. He comes outside and it looks like Dachau. Then as he comes to the parking lot, there's going to be an entire military hospital unit that's been overrun. It just keeps unfolding. When you read the comic, Rick walks outside and there's a car crashed into a tree. [Laughs] I'm like, "OK yeah, we'll do this burned out bus and dump trucks stacked with bodies."

Q: What visual inspiration did you get from the comics?

A: It's like having a storyboard of the whole production. Usually I get a storyboard of an effects sequence or an action sequence. But it's very interesting to have something from beginning to end. There are a lot of iconic images in that graphic novel that we have taken into the series. People will go, "Oh yeah that's the downtown Atlanta shot." For instance the police station in the graphic novel: One day I was driving around and saw right behind our production office this little brick building that looked exactly like the police station. So there are a lot of points like that, and then the hospital is something we really took to a whole new level as far as the devastation and really showing for the first time the scale of the apocalypse in Rick's town.

Q: How much do you typically have to dress a location?

A: I would say very little. Obviously we had to devastate the hospital, but one of my rules with this is we need to own the location. Rick's house was kind of an abandoned house that was for sale. It had no windows, it was boarded up, kind of derelict. But it laid out beautifully for us, so we went through the trouble of fixing it up. But I would say overall, we've been very fortunate with locations. They've been big dresses: The gas station was a huge dress. The hospital was a huge undertaking, especially once we got outside of it.

Q: What goes into making Atlanta look like it's been through an apocalypse?

A: The challenge is, again, to find areas that we own. We're setting up an abandoned city, so we needed to find areas of downtown that we could shut down over a weekend. I was looking just to keep it tight, so that it was hard to see around corners and know what's coming ahead of you. And then from there, it was just trying to build some backstories to what happened there: The concept was that a section of Atlanta had become a Green Zone where the military could protect a certain square-block area. And basically the thought is that Rick approaches this military checkpoint that's been overrun. We had lots of abandoned cars with luggage or doors open, like people had come, tried to get in; some people had tried to run the blockade, we had some burnt, turned over cars.

Q: How long did that take to set up?

A: They shut down the street at 7PM on a Friday night, and at 7AM we were shooting these apocalyptic scenes over six blocks. The set was so large, when Frank [Darabont] got there he didn't even see we had a Huey helicopter landed in the street. He's like, "Where's the helicopter?" "It's down there!" "Well bring it up here!" So we immediately brought that up. That's how big it was - the helicopter got lost. [Laughs]

Q: Will you have to supplement these set-ups with CGI?

A: I have to say rather proudly that there are two or three sets that we've done - downtown Atlanta, the gas station - that were going to have a lot more CG work done to them. But when we got done with them, Frank was like, "We kinda have it," which was great for me. He's like, "I don't think we need to extend this set. This is actually much more than I thought I was going to get." That's been kind of cool, to actually be able to deliver enough physical scenery to fill the shot.

[Wylie Times]

Låter ju positivt att dom använder serietidningen som story board. Måste vara tacksamt också.

[Synon]

Serien är bra, eller hur? Många nummer eller bara en liten kortis? Btw, finns den tillgänglig att läsa online? Lagligt dvs

[Wylie Times]

Mycket mycket bra. Första numret har funnits att läsa gratis online men inte längre verkar det som.

[Synon]

Å nej. Så typiskt då. Ska erkänna att jag är lite nyfiken på serien nu...

[Wylie Times]

Det går nog säkert att ordna en utlåning där.

[Synon]

Åh. Ja tack

[super85]

Första numret går att hitta i ett sånt härna format

http://itunes.apple....d325562868?mt=8

[Synon]

Tack för länken! Ska kolla upp det alldeles strax.


Det coola gänget:



Källa: Fangoria


Edit: Tack super85 - nu har jag den i min iPhone!

Edited by Synon, 15 July 2010 - 21:56.

[Synon]

Nu finns början på serien i videoformat. AMC som lagt upp den för var en och att ta del av. Dock kan vi utsocknes ej se den på deras sajt, men videon på Fangoria fungerar... än så länge så skynda er om ni är nyfikna! 8 minuter lång är den btw.

Fangoria

[Wylie Times]

Tack, men nej tack.

[Synon]

Inte bra?

[Wylie Times]

Nej jag vill inte se ett klipp från serien innan jag ser första avsnittet. Känns rätt menlöst.

[Synon]

Jepp, som jag då Men tänkte att det kanske finns andra här som inte har något emot en tjuvtitt. Funderade först på om du hade något emot själva animeringen eller nåt...

[Wylie Times]

Nope. Jag har bara aldrig förstått meningen bakom ett enda långt klipp från en serie till skillnad från en trailer som imo ger mer. Inte för att jag klagar över att du postade det eller så, bara att det inte är för mig.

[super85]

Fast alltså det där är ett klipp i motion comic formatet (rörliga "serietidningar" med röstskådisar som DC och Marvel ger också ut) och inte en scen eller filmklipp från TV-serien.

Den finns på youtube också.

[Synon]

Jag kanske var lite otydlig för jag menade aldrig att det var ett klipp från TV-serien, utan från serien. Jag vet, jag var lite dålig på att förklara.

[Synon]

Regissören Frank Darabont, producenten Gale Anne Hurd, cgi/makeup designern Greg Nicotero och skådisarna Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Wayne Callies, Jon Bernthal, Laurie Holden och Emma Bell fanns med på Comic-Con och Collider fick en liten pratstund med dem:

SDCC 2010: THE WALKING DEAD Roundtable
July 23rd, 2010

Earlier in the day, the throngs of people who flooded Room 6BCD were treated to a panel discussion and trailer for AMC’s upcoming series The Walking Dead, based on the comic book by Robert Kirkman. Following, I had the chance to sit down with writer/director/executive producer Frank Darabont, executive producer Gale Anne Hurd, special effects/makeup designer Greg Nicotero and stars Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes), Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes), Jon Bernthal (Shane Walsh), Laurie Holden (Andrea), and Emma Bell (Amy).

Their excitement for this project was evident, despite having travelled from shooting and low on sleep. The series is shooting in Atlanta (the first indication of the desire to stay true to the source material). They are about to go into shooting episode five of the first season’s six episodes. Hit the jump to hear what they had to say.

Holden and Bell sat down with us first. They play sisters Amy and Andrea on the show and, oddly enough, the pair share the same birthday… and sense of humor. Holden says that just because a character dies in the comic book doesn’t mean that fans should expect that they necessary have to die… or could die later on in the story. Bell said that this gave the opportunity to build up the characters, especially her in particular. Holden embraces the opportunity examine her character, the relationship with her sister and generally her softer side before she starts to wear fatigues and carry a gun. Bell says that the time progression of events on the show is much akin to 24 and that these six episodes will represent about three to four days at camp.

Frank Darabont and Greg Nicotero

When asked about how he’s using the comic book as a guideline, Darabont said “In a loose sense I’m going to always follow what Kirkman’s done with brief detours to stop and smell the roses.” One detour will allow Darabont to delve deeper into the character of Morgan, someone protagonist Rick encounters early on, and show just why Morgan has stayed where he is because of painful emotions. He said that the first episode will follow Rick’s journey, which is our introduction into the world where the dead walk. They haven’t had any issues with standards and practices. In fact, Darabont said the only thing they really can’t do is have characters say “f-ck”. Nicotero chimed in to add that buttcrack was also off the table, but said the easy way around that is to just rip the zombies in half. Darabont let us know that a possibly re-timed black and white version of at least the pilot is something that fans can look forward to with an eventual DVD release. (The comic book is black-and-white.)

Hurd said that this specific (and ultimately successful) incarnation of The Walking Dead stemmed from her and Darabont “tackling” Kirkman at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con. At that time, the pair promised Kirkman the show would see air within the next year and a half. Hurd hopes that the series will return for a second season with thirteen episodes and those have already been roughed out. She added to this that all the blog speculation about how the translation to screen will play out has been “dead wrong.” She has the utmost faith in AMC as they wanted the project, wanted to prove their commitment and truly sold that they would get it on the air. Hurd said that this is the right time for this sort of project because the cultural zeistgeist is littered with nearly Armageddon level human tragedy from Katrina to the Haitian earthquake to the oil flowing into the ocean — showing how ultimately precarious life on this planet as we know it is.

Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Wayne Callies, and Jon Bernthal

As a fan of the book and wanting to know how far into the series the six episodes would take us, I asked Lincoln and Bernthal just how at each other’s throats their characters are. They didn’t want to let anything slip, but said they’re not quite to the point of butting heads, but getting close. When asked if they were comfortable with this going ten seasons (Kirkman has said he doesn’t want his comic series to end and Darabont echoed that for the adaptation), Lincoln said that he doesn’t want it to end as they’ve just begun scratching the surface. In summing up the series for his character, Lincoln gave us a quote that he found best described Rick — “A hero is a man who does all he can.” Lincoln said it was the familial aspect to the series that drew him in. Bernthal said it was the elements of friendship because friendship is such a vital part of his own life. Callies said that it was how dark Lori’s motherhood gets. It is dark, ugly and scary.



If you haven’t had a chance, be sure to check out AMC’s page for The Walking Dead which includes a motion comic, Kirkman’s tour of set Darabont talking about the process and, I’m told the panel from today. The footage screened should be available just a couple days later.

I’ve been excited for this series since when I first started reading the comic book and seeing its potential for translation to the small screen. All indications point to a seriously entertaining time to be had when it airs on AMC in October.

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