In an interview of December 2024 with ColliderKirkman awarded the original “Walking Dead” showrunner Frank Darabont for having made the series. According to Kirkman, Darabont had come across the comic strip “Walking Dead” at the House of Secrets (a comic strip in Burbank, California) and thought that serialized drama was a perfect story to bring to television. He was not the only one. As a producer of “Walking Dead” Gale Ann Hurd Recalled in the variety in 2016::
“What attracted me to [Robert Kirkman’s] The comic book series is that it is a story about the characters in a trip to this new world, and constantly trying to understand not only how to survive, but what is important for them. “”
But as passionate as Darabont and Co. If they still had trouble convincing television networks. Darabont brought the series to NBC because it had an agreement with the network at the time. However, his problems with the material extend beyond violence. An NBC leader thought that the “Walking Dead” comics should be adapted as a police procedure where, apparently, the Sheriff Rick Grimes and a partner would resolve crimes related to zombies every week. Another asked: “Should there be zombies?”
Despite their reserves on violence, HBO was apparently more interested. Kirkman said that there was an “auction war” between AMC and HBO for “The Walking Dead” at the end. (We all know who won this.) Here’s how Kirkman said:
“AMC and HBO have somehow participated in a” We will give Robert that. “” No, we are going to give Robert that. “No, we are going to give Robert that.” No, we are going to give Robert that “, and we continued,” well, HBO gave us this, “then AMC was going,” very well. And then to HBO, we would be like, “AMC gave us this” and HBO ID, “very well”.
However, HBO has always had an indirect impact “The Walking Dead”. Darabont’s initial choice to play Rick was not Andrew Lincoln, but Thomas Jane. (Darabont had worked with Jane on “The Mist”.) But Jane had to pass because he had already signed as manager of “Hung”, a series of comedy produced by HBO on a high school teacher who becomes a sex worker. (It lasted three seasons.)
If HBO had won the “Walking Dead” auction war, a big The difference that comes to mind is dialogue. HBO, not governed by the rules of the FCC for public broadcasting, can let its characters swear a storm with the seven dirty words. This means that Negan could have curse as he does in the comic strip. AMC let “The Walking Dead” get away with ultra-violence, but as a broadcast network, his hands were attached with the oath.
