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Zombies are roaming from the pages of Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic e-book onto your television screen. The Emmy Award winning network announced that the series, which will debut Halloween 2010, will feature Frank Darabont's direction. Frank Darabont is known for his work on The Mist and Shawshank Redemption.
The Walking Dead principal character is Rick Grimes, a small-town policeman from Kentucky, who along with his family and other survivors have pulled together to try to survive after the world is overrun with zombies. The series uses the zombies more as a foil for the character development than as the main focus of the story. Ultimately, the story of The Walking Dead is about how human beings react and develop after life altering tragic events that changes their lives. WATCH The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 4 - Vatos
The Story
The story begins when Rick is injured in a gun battle. When he wakes up from a deep coma, he finds that the hospital and town are overrun with zombies. After finding his house abandoned, he sets out for Atlanta where survivors are informed to go. He discovers the city is overrun by zombies and bumps into Glenn, a scavenger for a group of survivors. Deciding to follow Glenn, Rick finds his wife Lori and son Carl with the group of other survivors, along with Shane, his companion on the police force. Thinking Rick dead, Shane and Lori had been having and affair, and Shane isn't exactly pleased that his former companion has returned. WATCH The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 4 - Vatos
