John C. Reilly And Mary Louise Parker Get Painted Red
Thursday, November 5, 2009 12:40 PM | From Cinema Blend
I had been assuming all along that in Red, the adaptation of the DC Comics book, Morgan Freeman would be playing the titular retired CIA officer who is surprised when assassins show up to kill him. Not only was it the name of his character in The Shawshank Redemption, of course, but who's better than Morgan Freeman at playing the guy you think you can take because he's old, only to destroy you?
But in a new THR article, we ...
Lobo To Be Played By Clancy Brown?
Thursday, October 29, 2009 1:00 PM | From Screen Rant
We put an empty can with a string attached to our ears and heard Latino Review whisper that Clancy Brown, the man who played the formidable and creepy Brother Justin Crowe in HBO’s Carnivale, as well as the heartless Captain Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption, keeps coming up in conversations over at Warner Bros. about [...]
What will Frank Darabont Bring to THE WALKING DEAD Series on AMC?
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:49 PM | From GeekTyrant
The Walking Dead is a comic book from Robert Kirkland that is being adapted into a TV series for AMC. We reported that Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont is attached to bring this story to the small screen. I couldn’t be more excited for Darabont to start working with zombies! This match up with story [...]
Robert Kirkman, Creator of THE WALKING DEAD Comic, Talks up the New AMC Show Being Helmed by Frank Darabont
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:42 PM | From Collider
AMC is on a roll. “Mad Men” has won the Emmy for Best Drama two years running and “Breaking Bad” is no slouch either. Now the network is trying yet another original idea: a zombie drama series based on the “The Walking Dead” comic series. Better yet, Frank Darabont (”Shawshank Redemption,” “The Green Mile,” “The [...]
Does Heroes Need A Reboot?
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:28 PM | From Screen Rant
Heroes‘ latest installment, Redemption didn’t exactly connect with viewers during its two-hour season premiere, pulling in just 6 million viewers. Even though a lot of our readers found the opening chapters to Redemption to be interesting and full of potential, the Nielsen figures seemed to dictate that Heroes‘ potential for renewed greatness was coming too [...]
Heroes: Redemption Season Premiere Review
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 4:00 PM | From Screen Rant
So last night Heroes‘ fifth volume (fourth season) “Redemption” had its two-hour premiere on NBC and I’m sure a lot of you have already voiced your opinion over at our Heroes discussion forum. My goal here is to review the show, and let you know (since you care) if I personally think that our favorite [...]
AMC to develop Walking Dead
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:21 AM | From Fused Film
The latest comic book adaptation is also the latest zombie-related project, continuing two popular trends in Hollywood. AMC (formerly known as the American Movie Channel) has acquired the rights to The Walking Dead , the humans vs. zombies comic written by Robert Kirkman. Shawshank Redemption scribe Frank Darabont is slated to write and direct the project. Darabont will aso be [...]
Frank Darabont Brings THE WALKING DEAD to the Small Screen
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:21 AM | From GeekTyrant
Director Frank Darabont, who brought us films such as The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist, is now going to take on a different territory by invading the AMC network with a TV zombie drama series, based on the Image Comics graphic novel by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead. A deal is being [...]
Darabont does the DEAD for AMC
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:00 AM | From Fangoria
Variety reports that Frank Darabont will bring the Image Comics series THE WALKING DEAD to the screen for the AMC cable network. Hell write and direct the adaptation of Robert Kirkmans stories of a cop who tries to help other survivors find safety in a world overtaken by zombies.
Genre veteran Gale Anne Hurd of Valhalla Motion Pictures and David Alpert of Circle of Confusion will executive-produce the TV series, which has yet to settle on a production studio. These are two world-class filmmakers who are also brilliant storytellers with experience in the fantasy genre, AMC senior vice president Joel Stillerman tells the trade of Darabont and Hurd. He also extols the qualities of the source material: This is not about zombies popping out of closets. This is a story about survival, and the dynamics of what happens when a group is forced to survive under these circumstances. The world [in THE WALKING DEAD] is portrayed in a smart, sophisticated way. Darabont, who started out as a scripter on Chuck Russells A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3 and THE BLOB, is best known for writing and directing the Stephen King adaptations THE MIST, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION and THE GREEN MILE.
AMC Picking Up The Walking Dead
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 7:21 AM | From Screen Rant
Frank Darabont, the acclaimed director behind The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and more recently, The Mist, is finalizing a hefty contract with AMC to write and direct a series adaptation of the zombie-survival comic, The Walking Dead.
The character-based series follows a Kentucky police officer and his family along with a bunch of other survivors [...]
Variety reports that Frank Darabont will bring the Image Comics series THE WALKING DEAD to the screen for the AMC cable network. Hell write and direct the adaptation of Robert Kirkmans stories of a cop who tries to help other survivors find safety in a world overtaken by zombies.