The zombie apocalypse is coming soon.
AMC has commenced filming on the third season of the popular TV horror series “The Walking Dead.”
Andrew Lincoln returns as Rick Grimes, a former deputy sheriff, who has established himself as the leaders of a band of human survivors of a zombie plague. Sarah Wayne Callies returns as his wife, Lori.
Filming began on May 7 near Senoia, Georgia, according to amctv.com
Executive producer Robert Kirkman confirmed the group of human survivors who spent the first season the road and the second at a remote farm will now seek refuge in a former prison. The zombies will become a more of a manageable threat and other human survivors, led by the evil Governor, pose a greater risk.
“So as much as people love the show, and as high as the ratings are, and as cool as the show is, I feel like we haven’t even gotten to the good stuff yet. This season is absolutely going to blow people away,” Kirkman said.
The Walking Dead made its terrestrial return with just over 900,000 for Channel 5, the latest audience data has revealed.
The Andrew Lincoln-starring zombie drama’s second season, which has already aired on digital channel FX, logged 906k (5.6%) between 10pm and 11.30pm – nearly 40% down on the equivalent first season opener last April.
Source: Digital Spy.
The Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln has described the show as “one of the coolest jobs” he’s ever had.
The actor explained that he loves both the emotional and action-packed scenes of his character Rick Grimes.
“I go to work and they give me a gun and a cowboy hat and say ‘rid the world of the zombie menace’,” he told Digital Spy. “It’s not your average day job. It’s one of the coolest jobs I’ve ever had.
“I love that you can have an intimate scene… and then the next day you’re on a horse charging through Atlanta with 200 zombies racing behind you. It’s an extraordinary gig.”
Lincoln added that he is appreciative of The Walking Dead‘s success, describing it as a “perfect storm” of a show.
“You’ve got a great crew, great cast, great scripts,” he said. “But that’s never a guarantee of success. Certainly I don’t think I’ve been in anything that seems to have caught the public’s imagination like this.
“Maybe it’s because it’s not a supernatural show, even though we have zombies. It’s actually about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. The thing that attracted me to the project was that you get to say something about humanity in it, and it’s full of heart.”
Lincoln is currently supporting Barnardo’s Big Toddle, an annual fundraiser that gives children under 5 the chance to take part in a mini sponsored walk.
Source: Digital Spy.
FINALLY TWD series 2 will be shown on UK channel 5 from the 14th of May at 10.00pm.
The Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln has promised that the show’s third season will be “insane”.
The actor, who plays protagonist Rick Grimes in the AMC series, predicted that even fans of the comic book will be shocked by twists coming up in future episodes.
Speaking to Digital Spy, Lincoln explained: “They’ve roughly plotted the first eight episodes and it’s insane, [it's] just insane this show.
“It’s not adhering to the comic books – they threw in a death this season [just finished] when the character doesn’t die for years. So that flipped the [comic] fanbase as well. They’re afforded the opportunity to play with that and kind of tease them.”
Lincoln also dismissed suggestions that the show could suffer from the departures of lead characters like Shane (Jon Bernthal) and Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn).
“We did lose a lot of people sadly, and it seems to be an occupational hazard in a zombie apocalypse,” he joked. “But ultimately it will be one of the enduring strengths of the show that we can move on in a very clean way and not feel that we have to keep churning out the same storylines for different characters.
“The great thing about it is the world keeps opening out and it’s less about ‘Let’s run away from the zombies and find a safe place to live’, it’s more about how does society begin again and how do we define humanity in this new extraordinary apocalyptic world?”
The Walking Dead season three will air in the UK on FX.
Lincoln is currently supporting Barnardo’s Big Toddle, an annual fundraiser that gives children under 5 the chance to take part in a mini sponsored walk.
Source: Digital Spy.
The Walking Dead game has been given a new trailer by Telltale Games.
The video focuses on the backstory of the game’s lead character and the events surrounding episode one, titled A New Day.
The video game spinoff of the popular comic book and TV series features a brand new character named Lee Everett, a convicted murderer with a chance of redemption in the aftermath of the zombie outbreak.
Players will meet familiar characters such as Glenn, as well as new ones who can live or die in a branching story based on the choices in each episode.
Episodes will be available individually for £3.99 ($4.99), or can be purchased as a season pass for all five episodes for £15.99 ($19.99).
An Xbox Live Arcade version is also in development, and will be available at a later date. An iOS port, meanwhile, launches in the summer.
The first episode launched on the PS3 and PC this week. The PC release is available from Steam and Telltale’s own distribution service.
Source: Digital Spy.
FILM and TV star Andrew Lincoln visited Salisbury on Friday to support a new service trying to help Wiltshire teenagers turn their lives around.
Lincoln, star of hit US TV series The Walking Dead, British series Teachers and romantic comedy Love Actually, is an ambassador for children’s charity Barnardo’s and came to Salisbury to mark the move of Barnardo South West’s Revolutions project into Wiltshire.
The charity has invested £180,000 in Revolutions – a mobile classroom and workshop contained within a pair of specially-adapted trucks.
Lincoln met the Revolutions team when they were developing the service in Gloucestershire and has followed their progress with interest. On Friday he met project staff as well as local students taking part in the scheme.
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In a telling panel interview with his fellow The Walking Dead cast members, actor Andrew Lincoln who plays Rick Grimes revealed his character, will definitely be a different person when season three resumes in the fall of 2012. In season one and two, Grimes was often as a nice guy, considering everyone’s opinion, despite the dangers posed during his post-apocalyptic circumstances.
With zombies around him at every corner, Rick was able to keep his cool. Things turned however at the end of season two when he killed his best friend Shane, played by Jon Bernthal; violence and killing were not originally in his nature. When his family was threatened, something seemed to click in him.
Season three will dawn a new Rick Grimes, one not afraid to make a decision without asking his entire zombie-survivors family. In the finale of The Walking Dead season two, even his on screen wife, Lori, played by Sarah Wayne Callies, became physically and emotionally distant from him; a woman, who usually supported his every whim, now doubted his stability.
Before learning Rick has killed Shane, she would have continued to follow him wherever he went. Now, fans can see a clear veil of cynicism in her gaze towards him. Lincoln shares during an interview with The Walking Dead cast:
“You have to keep evolving,”
“How do we define ourselves? How do we re-establish humanity?”
The Walking Dead will likely continue to test the limits of humanity, as Lincoln alludes. Thus far, several of the characters on the show have either witnessed their loved ones die or they have had to personally put them down once they become walkers. What will season three bring that will shock audiences even more?