Walking Dead Script Walk Through

Walking Through The Walking Dead Script

On Sunday was a sad night.. It was the season finale of Break Bad on AMC. Now what will I watch? Classic Movies from America? I think not! With one amazing drama ending and the long 8 month to a year wait till the next season. How the fuck do they expect us to go so long without something awesome on AMC to watch? Well, I guess there's Mad Men. That's great and all, but it doesn't have senseless violence with the main character's downward spiral.

Thank goodness we have something to look forward to come this October during Fright Fest.... The Walking Dead.



Yes, you've heard me talk about this before. It's a comic book.. being turned into a Television show. If there's any network that can do it justice, it's AMC. They showed a man get turned into liquid in an acid bath. A hallow point going through some cousins head and a science teacher make meth. They can do this one justice. Don't believe me? Look at this picture;



The show runner and director of the first episode is Frank Darabont. He's the guy who did THE MIST and he combined with AMC to get this comic book off the funny pages and turned into a live action TV show. For that, as well as his other work, I'm very pleased.

So let me introduce you to the characters. There's Rick Grimes (He's the main character) who is being played by Andrew Lincoln who is British which even though it sounds odd, let's face it, there's a lot of actors who have strange accents who do great American ones. So him playing a small town Kentucky Sheriff isn't to bad



Then we have Sarah Wayne Callies will play his wife Lori who was in the show Prison Break. So it's a little odd to see her go from one prison to yet another one. If the show goes according to the comics, should be an interesting turn of events.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the "Prison Break" actress has landed the leading female role of Lori Grimes, the wife of series protagonist and small town police officer Rick.

And then you have a series of other characters who... well, if it's anything like the comic book, let's just say that you really shouldn't get comfortable with them.

Now, I got a chance to read through the pilot script. I have to say that I loved it and it's not just because I'm a huge fan of the comic book series. It's very faithful to the comic book. You have to remember that Frank Darabont is directing it and Shawshank was probably the only Stephen King book that didn't get fucked up when translated to the big screen. If you want to avoid spoilers, then you should stop reading the blog right now and just scroll through the pretty pictures. But nothing I say will ruin anything if you've already read the first few issues of the comic.



The script starts off with Rick driving down a deserted highway. He stops at a gas station because a lot of cars are making it difficult to get past on the road. In the process he finds a little girl. Whoops, guess what, she's already a zombie. To cement it home that they're going to push limits in the series he shoots her. Then again, violence towards zombies has always been A-okay. He turns around to realize that the dead bodies sitting in those cars blocking the road were actually zombies. That gunshot alerted them and now Rick is stuck dealing with a zombie mob.

It cuts to a couple weeks ago. The same events as the comic happen. Rick and Shane have a shootout with some criminals. Rick gets shot and ends up in the hospital only to wake up weeks later in the hospital bed. What's powerful about the script is there's a lot of it that doesn't have any dialogue. Rick escaping the hospital and seeing all the dead bodies are all part of this. After realizing what has happened he comes across Morgan and Duane. A black man and his son hiding out from the zombies in his old neighborhood.



The three of them head over to the police station so Rick could suit up. He then parts ways with them as he's looking for his wife, Lori and son, Carl. All the while he's driving to Atlanta he keeps on trying the radio to see if Shane and his group can hear him.

It then cuts to a scene between Shane and a woman (who is clearly Lori but she's only identified as "Woman" in the script) who are now scene as a couple. We jump back to Rick and the events of the prologue with the dead girl, road block and zombie mob.



Rick escapes the zombie mob and makes his way to a farm where his car breaks down. He finds a horse in the barn and changes modes of transportation. Eventually making it to Atlanta and we get a shot of the city ruined to hell. They turn the corner on a street and are met by another swarm of zombies. You horse lovers are going to cry because the zombies get some fresh horse meat but Rick escapes under a tank. Zombies start to surround him and he's about to kill himself but then sees a hatch to get in.

Now Rick's just stuck in a tank while the zombies are still all around it with no hope in sight. Suddenly a voice comes over the radio in the tank. Someone somewhere spotted him getting in the tank. The script ends with the camera pulling out to a wide shot over the tank and we see it surrounded by hundreds of zombies clawing at it.



End of Episode one. If that doesn't get you hooked and shambling for more, I don't know what will.

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad

If you think of AMC as the network to turn to in order to see some censored copies of movies when there's nothing else on and all the other networks have gone to infomercials and haven't realized the greatness that is both Mad Men and Breaking Bad, then perhaps you should open your eyes and see that they're producing some top quality shows now.

So what is Break Bad? It's a show about a high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with lung cancer and so he uses his chemistry knowledge to cook meth as a means to leave his family with enough cash. It's about the moral downward spiral of a man into a world of shady practices. When he finds out his cancer is in remission does he realize that realities of what he's been doing. Though he can't seem to get back into his normal life and is urged back into the life of cooking meth as seen in this single most awesome scene that should convert anyone..



It's really one of the best shows on Television. Funny that AMC is two for two on their original programing, and really how great this and Mad Men is. And if you are a regular viewer who forgot what is going one, here's where we left off.

• Walter had surgery to remove the cancer from his body. Shortly after given a good prognosis, Skylar left Walter for being secretive and untrustworthy.
  
• Jesse hooked up with a very hot recovering addict named Jane, and they spiraled back into the abyss together, attempting to blackmail Walter out of the money he earned selling his meth to Gus.
  
• Walter gives in, but returns to Jesse's house later while they're sleeping in time to watch Jane choke to death on her own vomit. He chooses not to save her, believing Jesse will ultimately be better off.
  
• Whether or not that's true remains to be seen, but in the short term Jesse freaks out and checks into a rehab center, falling into a deep depression.
  
• Jane's father works for Air Traffic Control, and his grief over his daughter's death causes him to space out on the job, resulting in a horrific mid-air collision - which just so happens to be over Walter's house after Skylar grabs Walter Jr. and bails.
  

As for the billboard, no Walter will not be going to China this season to make Meth for Mao. It's a spoof on the controversial Barack Obama billboard in Times Square. But if I do say so myself, he deserves to stand and mock the President. I really liked Bryan Cranston from his role on Malcolm in the middle, but he has shown a range and ability I never would have guessed. I have no doubt that he will have a lot of work in the coming years after this show is long past its run.

I met him once on the studio lot while he was filming episodes of How I Met Your Mother as Ted's Boss. He's a really nice person and would have a pretty easy going conversation with you about the little things like the weather and other inane subjects with anyone standing there talking to him. Very easy going.



And even though the show is about him Breaking Bad, I can't help but feel for Walter. He has definitely gone off the rails morally, but he started with his heart in the right place; and it's hard not to be glad for his new found fortune. Developing determination and grit, not to mention his genius not only with chemistry, but his growing savvy as a man doing business in the underworld... even though he is still pretty bad with it.

You can't discard Hank. He's a very sympathetic character on the show. A guy, doing what he knows is right and yet there are parts of his job that frighten and disgust him. I could almost believe a real DEA agent might have a problem with killing a dealer. Even though he sees the criminals as thugs and punks, he still sees them, and all the other maddening people in his life, as human beings.



But Skylar.. oh man, how everyone seems to hate here. To be perfectly honest, I'm Okay with being called a misogynistic ass if it means I can hate Skylar. Yes, she has every reason to be suspicious of Walter but it seems like she has walked that very same line and just was too afraid to cross it while still maintaining the attitude that she's higher than thou all the while.

I'm much less sympathetic to her. Maybe it's just that she's acting like someone who had always been a priority for someone else, and had naturally expected that to continue regardless of what life and death situation and all these unknown stresses are going on in Walter's world. Yet she never discusses them and keeps them bottled up. I guess Walter could be more honest with her, but again, would she even be open to the win fall of the situation considering she does seem to have this attitude of not wanting to know how sausage is made.

Then there's Saul.... Oh Saul. Saul is a cheap town lawyer that all the loser criminals who can't afford real lawyers get. He has television ads that would normally show up at 1am in between your typical Adult Swim airing of Aqua Teen or Squidbillies. Want to see an example?



Saul's played by Bob Odenkirk and it's like he called up Tim and Eric and said "Hey, wanna help out on a show I'm acting in?" Even his website shows that AMC has gone to great detail for this show. So if you're in need of legal assistance, CALL SAUL.

So maybe now you're willing to give this little AMC show a chance, you wont regret it. Now who's ready to cook?

METH! BOOYAH!

METH! BOOYAH!

Over thanksgiving I posted a bunch of PSA's. Some funnier (in a morbid way) than others. Then I suppose in the search for the Meth one I came across the Montana Meth project. I suppose with all that free open space, it's ripe for meth labs and since Breaking Bad doesn't come back till March, maybe this series of clips can fill that Meth entertainment need for the next few months. It's my way of saying Merry Christmas.













Then we come to the ultimate in "Daaaaaaaamn". The one where you sell out your girlfriend for some Meth cash.



So the next time in the few weeks before Xmas that you see a homeless kid with that Meth look in their eye asking for change, maybe you'll give them the pocket change you have and not risk getting stabbed and beaten for a quick hit.