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AMC Developing The Walking Dead Spin-Off - FEAR THE WALKING DEAD
AMC announced Monday that it is in the early stages of developing a Walking Dead “companion series” — aka spinoff — to launch in 2015. AMC announced today that the network is in the initial stages of developing a companion series to its original drama series The Walking Dead, which premiered on AMC in October of 2010. The Walking Dead is currently the #1 show on television among adults 18-49. Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert are on board as executive producers, with AMC Studios set to produce. The companion series has a target on-air date of 2015. “Building on the success of the most popular show on television for adults 18-49 is literally a no-brainer,” said Charlie Collier, AMC’s president and general manager. “We look forward to working with Robert, Gale and Dave again as we develop an entirely new story and cast of characters. It’s a big world and we can’t wait to give fans another unforgettable view of the zombie apocalypse.” “After 10 years of writing the comic book series and being so close to the debut of our fourth, and in my opinion, best season of the TV series, I couldn’t be more thrilled about getting the chance to create a new corner of The Walking Dead universe,” said Kirkman. “The opportunity to make a show that isn’t tethered by the events of the comic book, and is truly a blank page, has set my creativity racing.” In addition to Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Hell on Wheels and Low Winter Sun, AMC recently greenlit two new drama series for 2014,Halt & Catch Fire and Turn. The network today began shooting a new pilot, Line Of Sight, directed and executive produced by Jonathan Demme, and has a licensing agreement with Sony Pictures Television for a spinoff series of Vince Gilligan’s landmarkBreaking Bad, based on the Saul Goodman lawyer character with the working title Better Call Saul. Season four of The Walking Dead returns to AMC on October 13. The Walking Dead is based on the comic book series created and written by Robert Kirkman and published by Skybound, Kirkman’s imprint at Image Comics. The Walking Dead season three out-delivered everything on television including The Big Bang Theory, The Voice, Game of Thrones, Modern Family, and almost doubled The Bible for the broadcast season for adults 18-49. |
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Ugh.
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Of course they are.
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Walking Dead: Los Angeles starring LL Cool J. They can play "mama said knock you out" while he kills zombies.
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It's hilarious reading Kirkman's dressed up press statements as compared to his casual shit when he's in the letters section of the comics.
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I like it.
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TWD is a gold mine for them. They can create endless storylines and spin offs in this world. It's no surprise that they are trying to get more mileage out of TWD and Breaking Bad. Despite heavy promotion and sandwiching it between Breaking Bad and Talking Bad, Low Winter Sun has been a major dud.
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I hope it's a prequel about Andrea's life as a single female lawyer.
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Hey maybe this time they can give us some characters we give a shit about.
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Good news. TWD may not be the best show on TV but it is the best ZOMBIE show on TV. Complain about it all you want but I love zombie movies and TWD is even miles better than 95% of the zombie movies out there.
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And this is how The Walking Dead ends. Over saturation.
I look forward to the Daryl crossover when they need a ratings boost. Maybe the ghost of Merle too |
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This is bad ass. I hope since that its already proved to be popular, they will up the scale and start from the beginning. I want to see New York or Houston fall.
Zombies!!! So Excited!!!! If you don't like it , don't watch it. |
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Bring back Andrea's little sister from Season 1. That hottie was gone too soon.
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Make it a 70s-style "variety" show and I'm IN... as long as Tim Conway's there, that is.
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Sounds good to me, I don't mind seeing something in the world that's completely separate from the comics, as much as the current show already is.
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They should have just done a spinoff of the one character that saved Rick's life in the first episode.
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Maybe they can air this the same night as the Heroes spin-off.
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On the plus side, the threads for this one won't be full of spoilers.
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But the bitching about spoilers will still spill over into those threads no doubt.
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I'd like to see other countries too. We never really see that though WWZ did a bit. It would be interesting to see how other nations ended up.
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I suspect it will be set in a different part of the country, probably the West Coast. I don't mind this development, AMC would be foolish not exploiting their biggest hit.
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Originally Posted by DeputyDave
(Post 11836602)
TWD may not be the best show on TV but it is the best ZOMBIE show on TV. .
And yet, still the worst. |
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The opportunity to make a show that isn’t tethered by the events of the comic book, and is truly a blank page, has set my creativity racing. |
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Another show about Zombies but in a new location?
Oh come on. |
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I fully expect that a new zombie show made by the same team as Walking Dead will still have threads containing complainants about how shitty it is from the same folks complaining now. Here's a chance NOT to watch, instead of being "stuck watching it till the end... in case it gets better" Hahaha.
I really hope they start from the beginning. |
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Originally Posted by SuckaMC
(Post 11837218)
I fully expect that a new zombie show made by the same team as Walking Dead will still have threads containing complainants about how shitty it is from the same folks complaining now. Here's a chance NOT to watch, instead of being "stuck watching it till the end... in case it gets better" Hahaha.
I really hope they start from the beginning. |
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when the shows run is over, the groups will combine for The Walking Dead: The Movie!
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Originally Posted by riley_dude
(Post 11837183)
Another show about Zombies but in a new location?
Oh come on. |
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Originally Posted by TGM
(Post 11837247)
when the shows run is over, the groups will combine for The Walking Dead: The Movie!
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Originally Posted by stingermck
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And this is how The Walking Dead ends. Over saturation.
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Originally Posted by Tracer Bullet
(Post 11837460)
I actually don't think so. At least two more seasons of TWD will be aired before this spinoff, at which point the show will probably have an end date set.
Ha! Kirkman once stated, during S2 I believe, that he could see the series going 20 seasons. They are probably just going to make new stuff up when they catch up to the comic. |
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Originally Posted by DeputyDave
(Post 11837226)
Exactly. For crap's sake it's a ZOMBIE show. It's made for fan's of that type of horror. I'll say again: The Walking Dead is better than most (maybe 95%) of zombie genre movies out there. As zombie movie fans we put up with a lot of crap. If the spin off is at least as good as TWD I will welcome it.
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Originally Posted by Hokeyboy
(Post 11836700)
Make it a 70s-style "variety" show and I'm IN... as long as Tim Conway's there, that is.
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I guess for a lot of people the show would be a lot better if they actually dealt creatively with the zombies and finding ways to survive/cure/win over them. Instead we get mostly soap opera level melodrama with ridiculous characters like the Governor, interspersed with some gratuitous kills of Zombies, and more illogical actions and plot elements than seem possible. I mean the second half of Season 3 was pretty terrible, because thats all they did. Some will say "but its about the people". Well the people are boring cliched and idiotic. It could be a really good show and parts of it were quite interesting but on a whole it is pretty lousy.
No I won't be catching the spin-off, and will likely skip season 4 as well. There is a good show in there if they actually concentrated on the survival element of a world overriden by zombies in a creative way. To be honest I do not get why the zombie sub genre is so popular, and WD does not really do anything to make me understand it or seek out other zombie stuff at all. |
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Originally Posted by johnnysd
(Post 11838648)
I guess for a lot of people the show would be a lot better if they actually dealt creatively with the zombies and finding ways to survive/cure/win over them. Instead we get mostly soap opera level melodrama with ridiculous characters like the Governor, interspersed with some gratuitous kills of Zombies, and more illogical actions and plot elements than seem possible. I mean the second half of Season 3 was pretty terrible, because thats all they did. Some will say "but its about the people". Well the people are boring cliched and idiotic. It could be a really good show and parts of it were quite interesting but on a whole it is pretty lousy.
No I won't be catching the spin-off, and will likely skip season 4 as well. There is a good show in there if they actually concentrated on the survival element of a world overriden by zombies in a creative way. To be honest I do not get why the zombie sub genre is so popular, and WD does not really do anything to make me understand it or seek out other zombie stuff at all. |
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Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
(Post 11838893)
I think people want The Walking Dead to have an HBO-sized budget like Game of Thrones with the attendant production quality. Instead the series is stuck on AMC, one of the most erratically-run and cheapest cable networks in existence.
I've been wishing that HBO would try their own zombie show. It's only a matter of time until some network tries it and, like I said, I''d love to see non comic characters in a serialized show. |
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Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
(Post 11838893)
I think people want The Walking Dead to have an HBO-sized budget like Game of Thrones with the attendant production quality. Instead the series is stuck on AMC, one of the most erratically-run and cheapest cable networks in existence.
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Originally Posted by johnnysd
(Post 11838944)
I have no issue with the production quality, I just have issues with the illogical plot lines and forced twists, and the quite boring soap opera elements and histrionics and that plague the show.
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Originally Posted by johnnysd
(Post 11838944)
I have no issue with the production quality, I just have issues with the illogical plot lines and forced twists, and the quite boring soap opera elements and histrionics and that plague the show.
Originally Posted by DthRdrX
(Post 11838949)
AMC is the one that requested they continue using the prison set because of how much it cost them. I have to think network decisions like that hurt the story lines writers think up years in advance.
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I don't think the problem for many is the lack of action, it's that the characters are completely unlikable and boring. They aren't even complex and compelling in a Walter White sort of way, they are just sort of there, not doing anything to make us care about them one way or the other.
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