Wasn’t too long ago that we had Jonny Lee Miller as the rumoured lead in AMCs The Walking Dead, based on a very good comic series by Robert Kirkman. It’s all over for Jonny it seems as Andrew Lincoln from the the U.K. show This Life as well as Teachers and Afterlife has gotten the gig.
Andrew will play Rick Grimes, a policeman that wakes from a coma and finds the Earth he loves overrun with marrow sipping, shin gnawing, eyesball gargling Zombies from hell. It’s going to make for a lovely nights entertainment. AMC is already all in with this puppy, having ordered a whole run of the series. Frank Darabont produces.
Here’s a quote from Robert Kirkman on the casting. Thanks Hollywood Reporter.
Andrew Lincoln, wow – what an amazing find this guy is. Writing Rick Grimes month after month in the comic series, I had no idea he was an actual living breathing human being and yet here he is. I couldn’t be more thrilled with how this show is coming together.
