Who knew that a long-running show following a group of people trying to live at a post-apocalyptic world littered with hordes of their decomposing zombies would have played with. The hit AMC series The Walking Dead has drama and then some, especially when you think about the lengths the show’s producers went to get the series off the ground and all the other interesting behind the scenes news from the show that just wrapped up an abbreviated 10th season.
The Walking Dead has given viewers enough chills and thrills to fill an abandoned prison together with all the cast members — and producers — that were killed off since the series premiered on AMC on Halloween night in 2010. And while some of this stuff may be understood by the die-hard deadheads (I don’t know if that’s official or not), there may be a few of you out there who’ll be reading about a lot of this for the first time. So, without wasting any longer, let’s get this ball rolling.
Frank Darabont Pitched The Idea To NBC, But The Network Wanted It To Be A Zombie Crime Procedural
This is probably hard to believe, but when former showrunner Frank Darabont first sought out to earn a TV adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s comic series The Walking Dead, he didn’t get a lot of biters, at least not with the idea of a group of survivors in the center of a zombie epidemic. 1 community specifically had some offbeat suggestions for the series, with these being something that sounds fun in a manner.
Sitting down with Variety ahead of the Season 7 premiere at 2016, producer Gale Anne Hurd demonstrated that when Darabont presented the initial script to the Peacock network, NBC executive’s first response was: RELATED VIDEOS
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Gale Anne Hurd went on to include that NBC then asked the former showrunner if there was a method to turn the series to a procedural that followed two protagonists solving” a zombie offense of this week”
When Pitching The Series To HBO, Frank Darabont Wanted Thomas Jane To Play Rick Grimes
Ahead of The Walking Dead, Andrew Lincoln was mainly known for his dramatic sweater zip-up at the 2003 romantic comedy Love Truly, which could very well still be true if Frank Darabont had gotten his way when he first pitched the show to HBO. Following Uproxx, the early version of the series that Frank Darabont introduced to HBO had Thomas Jane as the show lead Rick Grimes. Remember, this was about the time Darabont and Jane worked together on the 2007 Stephen King adaptation The Mist.
The network eventually passed on the idea which opened the doorway the AMC to take the series, but at the time things got rolling again, the celebrity of The Punisher had already committed an HBO collection of his own, Hung.
Norman Reedus Initially Had A Chip On His Shoulder But Employed It To Fuel His Character
Contrary to the majority of the characters in the original cast of The Walking Dead, Norman Reedus’ character of Daryl Dixon never seemed in Robert Kirkman’s comic series. In addition to that, Reedus didn’t appear on the AMC show until later than the rest of the central cast, which made things somewhat awkward for the star of this series.
Norman Reedus clarified He took his fear and nervousness of linking the cast which had been working together the year before he arrived, saying:
