"The Walking Dead" developed by Frank Darabont and AMC - Part 3

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All things are right in the world. :hehe: :up:
 
I do believe I see Shane attacking Rick somewhere in there...... could a certain gunshot be very far off? :awesome:
 
While Philip Blake, aka The Governor, is a major player in The Walking Dead comic book series, fans will have to wait until The Walking Dead Season 3 to see him take shape as a living human being. We recently caught up with Sex Machine Tom Savini, who revealed some interesting information about the casting of this important, though yet unseen, character.

As the actor describes it, he has been campaigning for the role of The Governor himself, telling executive producer and longtime friend Greg Nicotero that he was tailor made for the role. And it's true. The character in the graphic novel does look suspiciously like Tom Savini, who famously slaughtered zombies in the original 1978 Dawn Of The Dead, and then went onto direct a pretty good remake of Night of the Living Dead.

Quite frankly, Tom Savini would be perfect for the part.

But, AMC is going after a name, and that name is John Hawkes, seen in Deadwood and Winter's Bone.

Here's what Tom Savini had to say.

"When am I going to be on The Walking Dead? I should be the governor on that damn thing! Listen, I have been campaigning to be the governor on that damn thing with Greg Nicotero for over a year. Everytime I see the graphic novel, and I see a picture of The Governor, who looks just like me, I send Greg a picture. I just won't give up. Last time I talked to him about it, when I was in Los Angeles, he said they were going after a name for that part. I said, "Who?" He said John Hawkes.

Well, I never heard of John Hawkes. But then he reminds me that we were in From Dusk Till Dawn together. He is the guy at the beginning in the store that fires on them. Apparently he was up for an Academy Award. He was up for something called Winter's Bone. That's whom they are going after for The Governor. But everyone I talk to, the people that read the graphic novels...They've all said that I would be the perfect governor. Because he is tough and brutal. And...I look just like the graphic depiction of him!"


Is The Governor in the comics actually based on Tom Savini?

"I've never heard it confirmed that it was based on me. I wish the writers and the producers would remember that if I was. Because I'm available, and I want to do it. Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on The Walking Dead!"
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http://www.movieweb.com/news/exclus...-governor-tom-savini-campaigning-for-the-role
 
I can see Tom Savini as The Governor but I want Danny Trejo.
 
All pipe dreams. Most likely it will be a Hershel type of thing. I just want this actor to make us hate him. I can't remember the last time I hated a character.
 
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I do believe I see Shane attacking Rick somewhere in there...... could a certain gunshot be very far off? :awesome:
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That's what I was thinking. God, I hope so. :awesome:

That promo was KICK ASS.
 
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'The Walking Dead' season 2 spoilers: Plot synopses for episodes 9 - 13

http://www.examiner.com/entertainme...on-2-spoilers-plot-synopses-for-episodes-9-13

Episode 9 is titled, “Triggerfinger” and the synopsis reads,

Rick, Hershel and Glen are trapped and fight to survive. Shane finds Lori in danger.

Episode 10 is titled, “18 Miles Out” and the synopsis reads,

Rick and Shane are in conflict over the fate of an outsider; Andrea helps Hershel's daughter face a crucial decision.

Episode 11 is titled “Judge, Jury, Executioner” and the synopsis reads,

Rick sides with Shane causing Dale to worry that the group is losing its humanity; Carl's actions have unintended consequences.

Episode 12 is titled “Better Angels” and the synopsis reads,

Someone dangerous may be loose near the farm; Rick, Shane, Daryl and Glenn keep the group safe.

Episode 13 is titled, “Beside the Dying Fire” and the synopsis reads,

Rick and Carl find the farm in jeopardy; the group is split up in the chaos; Rick's leadership is questioned.
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This is huge:

DON'T READ FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS!

Nebraska is an awesome episode, most likely one of the best, has nothing to do with Nebraska.
Hershel goes into town to a bar to drown his sorrows with alcohol, Rick and Glenn go after him.
They find him drinking long story short, 2 guys walk in out of nowhere and essentially fake being nice all along wanting to know where they are staying so they can go raid and rape etc. Rick pretty much goes cowboy on em and kills em both. Hershel has a new found admiration for him after this.

Anyway after awhile a bunch of people come looking for their friends and finally find out and there is a fire fight between Rick's people and the others, many of them.


Almost forgot, "Nebraska" is mentioned in their conversation, they tell Rick that maybe Nebraska is a good place to go and after some verbal sparring Rick essentially tells them to !@#$ OFF to Nebraska.


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Shane does not make it through the season, essentially Lori puts into his head that if Rick wasn't around they would still be together. This makes Shane change AGAIN, (he had finally made peace and Lori ****ed him up again). Anyway he decides to kill Rick and lures him into the forest chasing after someone you will meet in "Nebraska". Of course Rick isn't stupid he realizes nothing is adding up and tries to give Shane a chance to abandon his plans. Believe it or not Rick loves Shane like a brother, anyway he finally calls Shane on it and Shane basically tells him how Carl and Lori will get over his death. Shane has a gun pointed at Ricks face and seconds away from shooting, when Rick starts to negotiate his way out of it, all along pulling a knife out. Long story short he lunges at Shane and buries the knife in his chest.

Even worse HERES A BIG SPOILER.

SHANE COME'S BACK TO LIFE AS A ZOMBIE! - Carl shoots him, the whole thing is pretty ****ed up.

All this causes Rick to slowly change into a Shane if you will, believe me the show is going somewhere so crazy that Shane's death will not even be a burden, he served his purpose by helping Ricks character transform.

Source: http://www.roamersandlurkers.com/topic/2267-spoilers/
 
Anyone wanna bet on that being complete bulls**t? lol 5:1 odds on it being true.
 
That totally contradicts what I posted but...ok. :huh:
EDIT: I guess if that happens later in the season...but I guess we will see what happens this Sunday.
 
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The Re-Animator
The Walking Dead gets a brain transplant in the form of new showrunner Glen Mazzara.

By Boris Kachka Published Feb 5, 2012

By any standard, AMC’s zombie drama, The Walking Dead, is a success; by cable-TV standards, it’s a record-breaker and a paradigm shift—proof that basic cable can produce genuine hits that draw nearly 9 million *viewers per episode and not just critical darlings like the same network’s Mad Men and Breaking Bad. And yet for anyone following the show’s dismal reviews or the crisis that culminated in the firing of its creator, Frank Darabont, this past July, it looks like a project bent on self-sabotage. Fortunately, Darabont’s replacement as showrunner knows how to handle stress. Glen Mazzara, whose voice betrays his Queens roots, began his career as a New York hospital administrator before breaking into TV. “Tight schedules, people with different agendas, tight budgets,” he says, rattling off the parallels. “And you’re always waiting for a cardiac arrest.” Lately he’s been trotting out a more dramatic professional analogy. “I’m the guy in The Hurt Locker,” Mazzara says. “I get sent in in the suit to try to defuse things.”

The source of last summer’s explosion is still murky. A cavalcade of theories followed in its wake: Darabont couldn’t get along with AMC’s head of original programming, Joel Stillerman; he tried to shoehorn his film sensibility (he directed The Shawshank Redemption) into a TV mold; one of his directors turned in unusable footage on a crucial episode; he railed against rumored budget cuts. Mazzara confirms a post-*Darabont scramble to clean up a ragged second-season premiere, but he and an AMC spokesperson deny any belt-tightening. “I’ve been nickel-and-dimed by studios before,” he says. “They have not nickel-and-dimed this show.” Darabont refused to comment for this story, but three months before his dismissal, he appeared at a showrunners roundtable and complained about AMC’s attitude toward its shows: “There’s an asset that has proved to be quite a valuable asset. Why are you trying to gut the budget? It doesn’t make business sense to me.”

Whatever the case, the crisis of confidence among cast and crew was very real. Mazzara seems to have conquered it, but the public jury won’t be in until February 12. That’s when the show returns from its mid-second-season hiatus and when viewers get to see the first episode made entirely on Mazzara’s watch.

Mazzara thought twice about taking the job. He had always functioned best as a right-hand man who “comes in in a nonthreatening way to help a showrunner attain his vision.” His No. 2 gig on The Shield went better than stints running cable duds Hawthorne and Crash. He was replaced on the latter, “so I know that it’s a very painful thing to lose a show.” And he would always be thought of as The Walking Dead’s *replacement chief. “Here was the third instance where I was signing on to execute someone else’s vision, and what if it didn’t go right? It could have killed my career.”

Mazzara flew to Atlanta to sweet-talk the actors—most of them deeply devoted to Darabont—in the middle of a sweltering midsummer shoot. “He just said, ‘I was very happy where I was at,’ ” says the show’s Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl, a hick with a crossbow and a heart of gold. “He wasn’t the bad guy in the situation, and he wanted to let us know that.” Or, as Mazzara insists to me, “I am not an auteur—I am not. Okay?”

But Mazzara couldn’t sweet-talk a blogosphere teeming with flesh-hungry fanboys. They had eaten up the premise of The Walking Dead, based on a beloved comic by Robert Kirkman: A small-town cop leads an enclave of zombie-*apocalypse survivors outside Atlanta, battling not just the undead but their own darker human impulses. Yet many bristled at the leaden dialogue and improbable twists that plagued the first season. Between seasons, Darabont axed most of the writing team and brought on the author of its best episode, Mazzara, as executive producer in charge of hiring a new staff. Mission unaccomplished: The first half of the second season was savaged for lumbering along, zombielike, almost entirely within the confines of a single farm. Since Darabont had already been let go (having signed off on that first half), fans were tempted to blame Mazzara.

It’s on this point that Mazzara’s auteur ego rears its head. “The fans,” he says, “don’t understand what’s mine, what’s Frank’s, what needed to be done to improve the show.” As an example, he brings up the show’s recent confession by policeman Rick’s wife, Lori, that she’d slept with his best friend, Shane. Darabont thought it was too much plot development, Mazzara says—even though viewers had known about the affair since the series premiere. Mazzara chalks it up to Darabont’s film mentality. “Frank’s story*telling is told with the entire picture in mind—which works on a feature,” he says. “Having worked in episodic TV for a long time, I realize that the audience gets hungry for stuff and cannot be too far ahead of the characters. Otherwise they feel the characters are *stupid or not worth their time.” With *Darabont gone, he put the scene in.

Mazzara’s goal, moving forward, “is to accelerate and then figure out more *story.” His second-half opener features a tense standoff, new characters, and the promise of broader horizons. “I feel that the show has been a little insular,” he says. “I want to widen it. All of a sudden the outside world starts encroaching on our farm. And now there’s the suspense of, who’s out there? Are they coming? And all the interpersonal *dynamics of the group are at loggerheads over this new threat.”

The writers have already moved on to season three, which AMC recently expanded to sixteen episodes. That’s exactly where Mazzara wants to be. “If you want to know who I am,” he says, “I hate when a show I’m working on is broadcast. I’m dreading when the show comes back on. I’m sure people will like it, but I don’t like the spotlight, and I can’t wait for the last one to run so I can get back to work.”
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Oh sheesh, y'all.
 
Man. I hope I can shake that feeling of, "It's not as good as it would have been with Frank." I really want to. I just loved Frank's film approach to it. We'll see. I want to.

I also hope the show never has ANY influence with Kirkman and his writing of the comic. It shouldn't. I think he said a while back he was up to issue 312 or something.
 
Apparently, the guy who released the spoilers I posted sent a video from Episode 12 to some posters on roamers and lurkers. He's legit.
 
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Apparently, the guy who released the spoilers I posted sent a video from Episode 12 to some posters on roamers and lurkers. He's legit.
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Yeah I read the forum when you posted it and I still have doubts. Did he send it out to more than 2 people since then?

I'm too lazy to go back and read it all but I remember that chick said, "It was obviously leading up to Shane's death! This dude's legit!" And the other dude seconded that. "Obviously leading up to" doesn't sound like anything substantial.
 
And what do you think of the specific criticisms — that the first season was badly written and implausible, while the second was just plain boring?
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I wouldn't be suprised that he would sue him but then again he only did the first issues and it'll probably come down to contracts.
 
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