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[TV] Here’s What Happens In “The Walking Dead” Spinoff’s Pilot!
It’s been revealed that the still untitled “Walking Dead” spinoff, code name “Cobalt,” takes place during the same zombie apocalypse in AMC series – only in Los Angeles. It’s said to revolve around a divorced teacher (Cliff Curtis) and a guidance counselor (Kim Dickens), who are working together and are in a relationship. The counselor has two children from a previous marriage, played by Frank Dillane and Alycia Debnam Carey.
It was as confirmed as it can get that Bleeding Cool got their hands on the pilot script, titled “Fear the Walking Dead,” that was written by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson.
While script pages posted online have been removed, we still learned quite a bit about the spinoff, including that it takes place at the very beginning of zombie infestation, and that the characters don’t even believe it’s real.
“The intro gives you a swerve, but the infection has not taken hold yet. The “walkers” are not yet known to the population at large, as society stands on the cusp of its own destruction,” explains the site.
The script also introduces a rather disfunctional family – “an older one than Rick’s, here are a mother and a soon-to-be-stepfather, teachers Madison and Travis, and their older teenage children, Alicia and Ian, Travis’ ex Liza and their teenage son Christopher, in a family about to break apart.”
Doing a complete 180 on the characters, the site reveals that “Drugs, illness, self-harm, set in Los Angeles, this is not so much a nuclear family as a dirty bomb. Rick’s family were torn apart, this family are there from the beginning.”
And as eluded to before, the zombie apocalypse is urban legend, and the family has no idea what’s about to broadside them.
“Because the dead are coming, An urban legend, underground, being spread from person to person,” they explain. “It plays the fact that we, the audience, know far more about what’s going on than anything else does and keeps teasing us toward the inevitable, in much the same way that Gotham does, but in the knowledge that it’s going to be over far sooner.
“These people all have plans, some in LA, some out, and we all know they are never going to pursue their dreams. This is not “The Walking Dead,” it’s somewhere else entirely.”
This all but confirms what Kirkman said in an interview stating that the new series will be startlingly different.
Here’s the new trailer for the second half of Season 5.
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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