THE WALKING DEAD Companion Series Lands Oscar-Winning Director
AMC has hired a director to take on The Walking Dead companion series they are developing. Adam Davidson will direct the pilot episode and help develop this separate story that will follow a different group of survivors. Davidson is a very talented individual who won an Oscar in 1991 for a short film he directed called "The Lunch Date." Since then has worked on a ton of high profile TV series such as Community, Fringe, True Blood, Rome, Dexter, Deadwood, and Lost. He's not a new face around AMC either, as he's worked with them on shows such a as Turn: Washington’s Spies, Low Winter Sun, and Hell on Wheels. The guy is more than qualified to take on this new Walking Dead series.
The new show will be set in the same zombie world as the current TV series, but it will feature a whole new group of characters residing in a different part of the country. It also won't include any characters or plotlines from Robert Kirkman’s currently existing comic series. There has been a rumor that the series will be a prequel that would chronicle the early days of the epidemic and the effort to contain it, but there's still no confirmation of that.
The characters for the show have previously been revealed, and they include:
SEAN CABRERA | A Latino male in his early 40s, Sean is a good man trying to do right by everyone in his life.
CODY CABRERA | Sean’s whip-smart and rebellious teenage son. Known as the angriest kid in town.
NANCY TOMPKINS | A thirtysomething single mom to two kids, Nancy looks like the girl next door, but there’s an edge to her.
NICK TOMPKINS | Nancy’s screwed up teenage son. He’s too old to stay home, too scared to flee.
ASHLEY TOMPKINS | Nancy’s mostly level-headed teenage daughter. Her ambition is in direct proportion to her older brother’s failures. She loves her mom but it’s time to get out of Dodge.
ANDREA CHAPMAN | A somewhat wilted flower child, fortysomething Andrea — yep, another Andrea! — has retreated to the outskirts of the city to recover after a horrible marriage.
Dave Erickson (Marco Polo) co-created the new Walking Dead series and co-wrote the pilot with Kirkman. I can only imagine that it will be just as good and intense as the original series.
Source: Deadline