Frank Darabont Gets The Walking Dead

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.

The drift:

The Walking Dead is centered around Rick, a small-town police officer from Cynthiana, Kentucky, his family, and a number of other survivors who have banded together in order to survive after the world is overrun with zombies. As the series progresses, the characters become more developed, and their personalities shift under the stress of a zombie apocalypse. Fighting growing despair — and sometimes each other — the group searches for a secure location which they can finally call home.

It will all come together on AMC, home of a ton of quality television like “Breaking Bad” and the soon to impress and confuse “The Prisoner”. Gale Anne Hurd will produce. Frank Darabont is the director of such fine fair as “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Green Mile”. No word exactly on when we’ll be seeing this on the air but I’ve got a good feeling this will be on the much watch list. Thanks Twitch, for the news.