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AMC’s top execs update the status of The Walking Dead spinoff

January 12th, 2014 by Irwin Fletcher Comments

The following is what AMC chief Charlie Collier and programming head Joel Stillerman told Vulture about the status of the announced spinoff to The Walking Dead, currently aiming for a 2015 release:

Stillerman: “That show is not as far along (compared to Better Call Saul). Robert has some things on his plate. He continues to write every issue of the comic and hasn’t finished season four of The Walking Dead, which he is very intimately involved with and will continue to be. That’s really in the incubation stages. The one thing that I’ll share is just an anecdote that Robert shared with us. He has such a specific vision that he laid out really clearly in the first issue of the comic book. And I encourage anybody who’s interested in the show to go read the note that he wrote in the first issue of the comic. His motivation for telling that story was so clear and so powerful, and it served as such a great north star for the show. We kicked around a few ideas, but primarily what he’s working on is, what is the idea that gives [him] as clear a mandate to make another version of this show as [he] had for the first one? What is going on [now] is a more philosophical discussion over why there should be another version of the show. Once we answer that, we’ll zero in on the specific creative.”

They were asked whether or not the show was indeed 100% green lit:

Stillerman: “It’s in development.”
Collier: “What we want to do is not diminish the mothership. What we want to do is find something that everyone involved feels as passionately about as being a unique vehicle and unique enterprise as compared to the original series. We’ll take our time, and we’ll do it right.”

When the companion series was announced last September it was described by Robert Kirkman as:

A new corner of ‘The Walking Dead’ universe. The opportunity to make a show that isn’t tethered by the events of the comic book, and is truly a blank page-“

Charlie Collier added then:

“- an entirely new story and cast of characters. It’s a big world and we can’t wait to give fans another unforgettable view of the zombie apocalypse.”

What do you thing about a spinoff  to The Walking Dead?

Will it ignite creativity and enhance the brand or dilute it?

Source: Vulture

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