A New Walking Dead Pilot Script Review Calls It Shit

A script review of Frank Darabont's pilot script for The Walking Dead surfaced last week, and was extremely positive. Latino Review apparently also found a copy, but they had a much different impression calling the script "boring", "derivative", "un rip-off" and "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ." Yikes! Here's an excerpt of what they said.

So on to the pilot script. It begins EXACTLY like 28 Days Later. Like, Tom Rothman mi amor, if you are reading this, call legal. Rick, a cop wakes up and wanders through a world of corpses which we see move. Darabont spends a shitload of time describing details usually left to a director. Like a corpse that wears bunny shoes as it walks. So funny I forgot to laugh. Coño! Then Rick and his best friend spend FOUR PAGES (four minutes of screen time) discussing whether women turn off the lights. Dios Mio! Did the power company pay for this? Then we get a high-speed chase. Rick’s in el hospital, he passes out and then more 28 Days Later rip-off- he wakes up, everyone is gone, what has happened, hey we already know from the opening, loser.

But the rip-offs don’t stop. George Romero needs to get his legals out too. Rick rides home to look for his wife and son and it is pure DAWN OF THE DEAD. Like WTF, no originality guys? Then he meets a black family whose padre might as well be Ken Foree. Ken. I mean Morgan nurses Rick back to health and tells him about the Dead Walking. Like it’s a virus (28 Days Later) or a moon thing (Night of the Living Dead).

It was boring squared for ten pages. All of this made worse by the fact that Darabont goes out of his way to describe the zombies as family friendly for TV. NO bullet shots to the head. No really scary makeup. You see AMC, the network that paid for this uses advertising and they don’t want anything too serious. It feels like Disney is making a Zombie film mis amigos.

Of course, the case is made that there is too many rip-offs of other zombie movies, such as 28 Days Later and Romero's Dawn of the Dead. For those that have read the comic, they know that the comic book does start similarly to 28 Days Later, and the zombies stumble around, Romero-style. Also, clearly, the reviewer is no fan of Darabont. Fair enough, but if the show is derivative of two very good zombie films, is that a bad thing? Seems like a positive to me.

Also, Night of the Living Dead was caused by a "MOON THING"?! Wow, dude, take your credibility and flush it down YOUR FACE! It was a space probe, dude. And seriously, how does the fucking MOON cause a zombie apocalypse?

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