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.

Fresh on the rotting heels of the strongish rumour that Jonny Lee Miller is to be cast as the lead in The Walking Dead’s pilot for AMC, home of super spiffy adult entertainment like Mad Men and Breaking Bad, comes the word that the Frank Darabont (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption) produced effort has already been green lighted for 6 episodes. That’s before it films! Crazy!

Jonny Lee Miller, former main squeeze of Angelina Jolie, is the front runner for the role of Rick Grimes in the Frank Darabont directed pilot for AMC’s The Walking Dead, based on the graphic novel series by Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore. Jonny was Sick Boy in “Trainspotting” as well as the star of the recent Eli Stone.

The Walking Dead originated as a most excellent graphic novel from Robert Kirkman and told a most adult tale of the hardships of day to day survival amongst the teeming and nibbling dead, with special attention to the emotional toll on relationships as living humans unbunkered and went forth in search of a safe home. Frank Darabont (“The Green Mile”, “The Mist”) wrote an adaptation and presented it to AMC, makers of other top quality, movie level television like Mad Men and OMG, Breaking Bad.

Continuing Scificool’s Zombie Day is this news that Frank Darabont is about to adapt the chilling comic series “The Walking Dead” by Robert Kirkman for the Tube.

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