The Walking Dead - TV Series

[Goaty]

New poster

[Devons Daddy]

BLOODY HELL
thats a must own based on the poster alone.

pre order from Itunes me thinks.

[HOO-HAA]

BLOODY HELL
thats a must own based on the poster alone.

Hell, yeah...

[Professor Bear]

The Comicon promo in (a bit) higher quality: http://stagevu.com/video/cdxmywiyqfpz

[Bolt-01]

Saw an ad for this that gave a date of November 5 for it to start.

[Goaty]

The Walking Dead (2010) - TV Spot #06: "Apocalypse soon"

That why the Tank is a big mistake!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bksblNndixc

[Kowalsky (formerly JudgeGumpty)]

That is the guy from the Channel 4 series Teachers isnt it ?

[mogzilla]

yup,he's a good egg.

[Devons Daddy]

october 31st HALLOWEEN
for anyone with a PC and access to the web only   

i tell you those damn PTP websites like VUZE, Or ISO HUNT have a lot to answer for! tut tut tut.

[Devons Daddy]

he was in LOVE ACTAULLY,

slightly differnt role here though, they missed the whole zombie angle in that otherwise pretty good movie.

[Dandontdare]

As well as the trailers, they showed a couple of longer extracts from this at BICS - it's looking pretty good, but it's weird hearing an American accent coming out of Andrew Lincoln's mouth. Charlie Adlard guests as a zombie in some of those city scenes - he said it didn't take much acting to be zombie-like, as everyone was dying in the heat and humidity of Atlanta in summertime.

Unfortunately, I don't get FX TV, so will have to wait ages (or illegally download) to see this.

[mogzilla]

he was in LOVE ACTAULLY,

slightly differnt role here though, they missed the whole zombie angle in that otherwise pretty good movie.

oh i dont know, i was pretty zombied out after watching it.

[Radbacker]

ummm, a friend of mine told me the Pilot has leaked on one of those horrible bad torrent sites.  He informs me it is absolutly ace and while the first half hour is a bit slow its gets really good quick.  A few additions from the comic are pretty good, the black guy and his son he meets in the first comic have quite expanded parts that look like they might carry through the first season.
Could be the best new series of decade.

CU Radbacker

[locustsofdeath!]

Ooh, that's excellent news, 'backer. Got to say as much as I'm tempted to head to the torrent sites I'll wait to see it in HD on the telly; as excited as I am, I'd rather wait the extra 10 days and get the full experience.

New collecteds are out now, btw! Big month for WD!

[Professor Bear]

I'm sure the makers are gutted that this has happened - who on Earth would want great word of mouth buzz prior to the show premiering?  I'm sure they're scratching their heads trying to figure out how it got leaked...

The thing about preair pilots, though (and the preair is what's what's doing the rounds on torrents), is that often they have scenes missing that only appear in the transmitted version, or some scenes are reshot, recut, soundtracks can change, and even parts recast, so it's still worth checking out the proper premiere just in case.

The Walking Dead pilot is really good.  The slow pace works better in television form, as does the big chunks of dialogue that often made the comic look like a typewriter had vomited on a page, but with the moving image format a lot of the comic's omnipresent verbal diarrhea is both unnecessary and thankfully absent - actors do the work with body language that previously would have necessitated a couple of thousand words.  The zombies are good, and there's a great "holy fuck" moment in Atlanta where Egg Rick is chasing a helicopter, turns a corner, and then you see that while the walkers don't run like in 28 Days Later, they sure can shift when they're onto something.  It's wonderfully bleak and atmospheric in a way I don't think came across too well in the comic, too.
It's easily one of the highlights of the current season of new shows, and gives a lot of credence to those saying HBO is slowly being usurped as the home of must-see new television.