Posted on 03/09/2015 8:42:50 PM PDT by gop4lyf
It’s official: AMC is moving forward with its Walking Dead companion series in a major way.
The top-secret drama, which went through the pilot process with the title of Cobalt, will join the flagship series on the network as the cabler continues to focus on scripted fare. In addition to ordering the pilot to series, AMC has preemptively renewed the drama for a second season. The first season will consist of six hourlong episodes — just like the flagship series did. The drama will premiere on AMC in the “late summer,” with season two set for 2016.
Robert Kirkman, who created The Walking Dead comic series, co-wrote the pilot with Dave Erickson (Sons of Anarchy). KIrkman and Erickson exec produce alongside Walking Dead’s Gale Anne Hurd and Dave Alpert. Erickson serves as showrunner, while Adam Davidson directed the pilot. Walking Dead VFX guru Greg Nicotero will also exec produce the series.
While AMC has been tight-lipped on its premise, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the series is a prequel that takes place in Los Angeles at the onset of the zombie outbreak. AMC on Monday confirmed that the companion series is set in Los Angeles but revealed nothing more beyond that it will focus on new characters and storylines. The drama is still untitled.
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Great! The Walking Dead in the People’s Republic.
The only survivors will be cops and gang bangers ;)
FYI
Wait hasn’t the Zombies taken over Hollywood?
Lol...maybe it starts out with the first EBT cards not working. Talk about zombies.
How long can they walk?
Look for all manner of “cameo” appearances.....
they have to do a bill murry homage to zombie land
I’m wondering if it’s going turn into a “stars whose heads we’d like to cave in” fest ;)
It was shot in November here in downtown Los Angeles. Heck, no sane person stays at night in downtown L.A. so there’s an irony to it...
Prequel title ideas:
“Running Scared”
“Pathogen”
“Operation: Lazarus”
“CDC’s Greatest Protocol Bloopers”
“Contagion”
“How Gunpoint-Enforced Vaccines Killed the World”
This is great news. The story always lacked the back story of how the zombies started out.
Congrats. How the heck did I miss that!?
:-)
Great, now the whole cast will be homosexual...
Please let me know if you would like on or off The Walking Dead ping list.
H/t: Whenifhow.
They’re just going to have to have Bill Murray on to do a cameo!
Please put me on the Walking Dead Spinoff ping =) Thank you
If there’s a separate spinoff ping list, please put me on it. Thanks :D
There isn’t really a separate ping list for the spinoff at this time. I was just having a little fun. :-)
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