AMC is bringing Image Comics’ graphic novel series The Walking Dead to the small screen, signing Frank Darabont to write and direct a series adaptation. Darabont and producer Hurd pitched the project to AMC and several other outlets.

Dead, written by Robert Kirkman, is set among a group of zombie survivors of an apocalypse who are led by a police officer, Rick Grimes, in search of a safe place to live. Numerous editions of the Walking Dead graphic novels have been published since 2003.

Joel Stillerman, AMC’s senior vice president of programming, production and original content, said the project appealed to the network because of “the quality of the storytelling” in Kirkman’s work. The series will stay faithful to the tone of the original novels, he said.

[Source] TheMovingPicture