Entertainment Weekly reports that teen-themed network The CW is pursuing a new zombie show to ride the success of AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” The show will feature “two sisters who face off…right as the zombie apocalypse” begins.
The interesting thing to us comic book fans, though, is the title of this zombie story, “The Awakening.”
That’s interesting, as “The Awakening” is already the title of a zombie story, the two-volume comic book from Archaia [read the first issue here]. There is no mention of the comic in EW’s news blurb, and the two don’t appear to share any story similarities aside from the presence of zombies, but this still seems odd; you’d think the first thing a studio would do before announcing the name of a new show would be a simple google search of “The Awakening zombies”.
So, will Archaia be pursuing a name-change from The CW? We’ve asked, and we’ll fill you in as soon as we get any response.
January 28th, 2011 at 11:24 am
On an ironically related note, ABC just greenlit “Poe”, a series featuring Edgar Allan Poe as a detective. This is a concept that’s previously appeared in several other iterations of media, including “Batman:Nevermore” from 2003, and more succinctly, “POE” from Boom! in 2009, which was, well, about Poe as a detective. The press I’ve seen so far doesn’t mention the Boom! series, so we’ll follow that up too.
March 30th, 2011 at 6:41 am
It’s not ‘The Awakening.’
It’s just ‘Awakening.’