JUST Announced by AMC – their Frank Darabont-helmed adaptation of the super-popular comic series The Walking Dead will be hitting TV screens on Halloween Night, Sunday October 31st at 10pm.
The premiere episode will be an extra long 90 minute episode.
If that wasn’t enough, they finally released a high-quality version of the San Diego Comic Con trailer (embedded above), which can also be viewed in glorious, full-screen HD.
In short – the coolest series of the fall is going to be following up Mad Men in the Sunday, 10pm slot. Sorry HBO, you just lost Sunday nights.
By far my most anticipated bit of television this fall is AMC’s adaptation of The Walking Dead.
Set to debut in October, fans all around the web (including myself) have been raving about how well the comic seems to have made the transition from the panels to the small screen, and with each piece of new media, I continue to get more and more excited.
The latest release is of a new grouping of stills, featuring looks at more undead and the lead (Rick) having a not-so great encounter with a bunch of walkers.
I’m bummed AMC still haven’t released a high-quality version of the trailer showcased at San Diego Comic Con, but I still think this series will join Mad Men and Breaking Bad as the third jewel in AMC’s original programming crown.
The world of entertainment is full of interesting glimpses of alternate realities. Chances are, if there was something successful, someone will try to find a way to invert it. I mean, this is a trend that has been going on since Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead took a different look at Hamlet.
Some recent ideas following this train of thought…
What if Batman were a c*nt? Mark Millar’s Nemesis.
The latest universal inversion comes to us with deviantART user gotbob‘s look at an alternate GI Joe universe, where the Joes are Cobra and Cobra are Joes.
You can click the image above for bigger – personally, I think “Snake” and “Sgt. McCullen” are the best of the inversions. I’d love to see some more realistic takes on this concept…you hear that internet? TAKE THE CHALLENGE.
One of my few issues with the Edgar Wright adaptation of Scott Pilgrim (if you can call it an “issue”) is how much of the source material had to be cut out to fit a two hour film.
It seems I wasn’t the only one with this issue, as late this Wednesday/early this Thursday, August 12th at midnight, [adult swim] will feature a short Scott Pilgrim animation, set during Scott’s time in high school, showcasing how he met Kim Pine, complete an appearance from Lisa Miller, who does not appear in the film.
The short runs 4 minutes in length, and even has Michael Cera voicing Scott. The look is very adherent to O’Malley’s original work, and has me wishing that the books get re-released colored at some point.
30 seconds of the short have been released as a tease, and I’ve embedded that below.
I’ve already gone on record with my excitement over the new Ultimate Spider-Man animated series.
Taking the comic series that kept me interested in mainstream comics and turning it into an animated series under the supervision of it’s creative lead and writer, Brian Michael Bendis already sounds like a grand idea. But it seems that Marvel Entertainment is dead set on making this series absolutely perfect.
The first major nab was the team from Man at Action, a group of former comic book writers Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau and Steven T. Seagle, who after leaving the comic industry broke ground in action based cartoons with their series’ Ben 10 and Generator Rex.
Now? Possibly the ultimate coup. Paul Dini. The head of arguably the greatest American animated series of all time, Batman: The Animated Series, this now makes the forces behind Ultimate Spider-Man not just the best at writing the character, but the best at taking comics and properly translating them to the animated format.
Sure, I was bummed to see the unusually good Spectacular Spider-Man series meet its end, but with a team like this, I’m very excited to see the next form my all time favorite character takes.
Ultimate Spider-Man is set to debut on the DisneyXD network in Fall 2011.
But then Yahoo! had to go and unveil the poster on a slow news day.
What a horrid mess this looks like.
Sure, I know, the designers behind this movie (just as the teams behind Alvin & The Chipmunks and The Smurfs) have to take cartoon designs and meld them with a real world aesthetic, but I’ll be damned if the “real” Yogi and Boo Boo don’t look like something that will haunt small children in their sleep.
With their dead eyes, I can’t help but think of deactivated Chuck E. Cheese animatronic characters…and that’s probably not a good sign.
Oh, and just a heads up, logo team? Having Yogi’s mouth in the title there? I know you’re aiming for “he eats!”, but it really looks like the worst fleshlight ever created by man.
Yogi Bear scars children for life and makes more money than I’ll ever see in my lifetime on December 17th.
Chances are, if you’re a fan of movies, you’ve seen the work of master painter Drew Struzan.
Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Harry Potter, dozens of others, if you named it, chances are, he painted the poster for it. But Struzan doesn’t do as many posters as he used to. His most recent work? Frank Darabont’s adaptation of The Mist.
So it should come as little surprise that Darabont worked his magic and got an AMAZING promotional poster painted up for the upcoming TV adaptation of The Walking Dead.
This is apparently the first time Struzan’s ever painted zombies, and good lord, did he ever do a great job.
The pre-SDCC scoops continue, as via an invite to a San Diego Comic Con party being put on by Wired, we now have our first look at the full ensemble cast for AMC’s TV adaptation of the Robert Kirkman comic The Walking Dead.
What can I say, as a long time fan of the comic, this looks perfect. They were even smart enough to desaturate the colors enough to give a slight black and white feel. The Walking Dead is already set to be one of the darlings of SDCC (footage is to be premiered at it’s own panel on Friday, July 23rd), and they’re making all the right moves in terms of keeping the series’ profile high leading into the event. If that room isn’t packed, I’ll be shocked.
The Walking Dead is set to premiere in October on AMC.
