Anchor Bay has just announced that it’s partnering with AMC to bring The Walking Dead to Blu-ray and DVD in the U.S. and Canada sometime in Spring 2011. How’s that for turnaround?
“We’re pleased to be working on The Walking Dead series with the team at AMC,” Anchor Bay president Bill Clark said in a press release. “We have some unique plans for the release and can’t wait to put them into motion.”
We’ll have full specs for you when they’re announced. All I know is that these suckers better be stacked to help with the wait.
This comes as news hits from Deadline that Darabont and crew has let go of the writing crew for the show and aren’t going to hire anyone on for the second season.
People around the net seem a bit concerned by the news but it doesn’t sound too unreasonable. Darabont’s got his mitts all over this project anyway, writing two of the six episodes from the first season and co-writing/rewriting the other four. So it’s not like he’s just going to abandon this project… he’s just going to hire on freelancers to write the scripts for the next season instead of using an in-house staff.
We’ll see what the Writer’s Guild thinks of this idea, though. This will be a ton of work for the series and might lock it into that October start date, but it seems almost set in stone by this point anyway. Even though last Sunday’s show actually did better numbers than the premiere, it seems like AMC just loves the idea of Fearfest kicking it off.
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I'll be you anything they run this into the ground. The writing has never been particularly good on the show to start with, I'm afraid this show is a one trick pony. I think it showed a true lack of foresight when they made it clear that the cause of the outbreak was a virus. Explaining zombies is dumb and they are dumb for doing it and the shows not even really about zombies anyway so why waste time on some bullshit non-science. Love the comics though. P.S. It would seem Darabont is a dick if you read the Deadline comments.
Anchor Bay releasing this seems very appropriate if you know their history.
I would certainly hope that it's out on DVD quickly, as there really isn't any reason to hold out until closer to the start of the next season. It's been said time and time again, this is such a short season and such a long wait for the next one, so AMC needs to keep awareness high and not let people forget that it's out there. If it's out on DVD in the spring, that gives them plenty of time to sell a shitload of the things before running it for free again in endless marathons before the season premiere in October. Anyone remember when Comedy Central seemed to be running The Chappelle Show 24/7 in anticipation of the 3rd season that kept getting delayed and delayed and delayed (before NOT really happening in the end anyway)? I'll bet that AMC will eventually do the same thing with this to the point that we're sick of what's out there already and will be THAT much more excited for new episodes.
I still want to know why (in the picture) the deer has been shot three times. Seriously, how shitty of a hunter can you get? For that matter, how shitty of a deer can you be for waiting around to get shot three times?
hahahahahaha, comment #4 wins the internet.
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