AMC has ordered six episodes based off of Robert Kirkman’s zombie comic book series, The Walking Dead. This is old news, but no series is complete without the main character, who is small town cop Rick Grimes in this place. AMC made an interesting choice and cast Andrew Lincoln, a British actor, to play the Kentucky based officer. I’m not saying it is a mistake to cast a British actor as a small town American cop, after all acting is pretending to be somebody you are not, I’m just curious to see how Lincoln approaches the character of Rick Grimes.
Anybody who has read The Walking Dead series knows it is fairly graphic, contains some harsh language, and is more about the survivors than the zombies. This last part is what will be most important in a TV adaptation. Expect to hear pretty much everything except the F-Bomb in this show, see some violence, and lots of character development. The Walking Dead is about how the living cope with their lives being so drastically altered, in this case by hoards of undead craving the taste of human flesh. Some can handle it, some can’t. AMC has announced the largest casting choice with Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes, we can only hope that he and everyone else cast live up to the standard set by Kirkman’s characters.
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