As the October 31st global premiere date of the new AMC horror series, The Walking Dead approaches AMC and FIC have planned a world wide Zombie outbreak for Tuesday, October 26th!
The one day multi-city events will occur during morning commute peak hours. Taking direction from The Walking Dead’s legendary make-up artist Greg Nicotero, hundreds of zombies will consecutively take over major cities worldwide during a 24-hour period. The planned global outbreaks will center in and around the world’s major landmarks, including the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., Big Ben in London, the Prado Museum in Madrid, the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, the Acropolis in Athens and more. They will begin at daybreak in Taipei and Hong Kong, followed by Istanbul, Madrid, Munich, London, Sao Paolo, Buenos Aires, New York City and Los Angeles, among others. Attacking a total of 26 cities, each outbreak will be documented and shared with fans the world over as it happens.
The Walking Dead” premieres on AMC on Halloween, Sunday, October 31 at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. For the first time ever for a television series, The Walking Dead will begin to premiere globally a few hours after AMC’s U.S. launch. Similar to a theatrical film release, all FIC markets will launch the first episode during the same week, before the release of the second episode in the US. The Walking Dead will debut in 120 countries, air in 33 languages and be viewed in 250 million households when it premieres.
The Walking Dead, which is based on the comic book series of the same name written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics,.is an epic, edge-of-your-seat drama where personal struggles are magnified against a backdrop of moment-to-moment survival. A survivalist story at its core, the series explores how the living are changed by the overwhelming realization that those who survive can be far more dangerous that the mindless walkers roaming the earth. They themselves have become the walking dead.
Waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma, County Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) finds himself utterly alone. The world as he knows it is gone, ravaged by a zombie epidemic. The Walking Dead tells the story of the weeks and months that follow after the apocalypse. Based on Robert Kirkman’s hugely successful and popular comic book series, AMC’s new original series, The Walking Dead, premieres with a 90-minute episode on Halloween night: Oct. 31 at 10/9c. Written and executive produced by three-time Academy® Award-nominee Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile), who also directs the pilot, and executive produced by Gale Anne Hurd (The Terminator, Aliens), the series debuts during AMC Fearfest, the network’s annual blockbuster marathon of thriller and horror films.
Kirkman serves as an executive producer on the project and three-time Academy Award-nominee Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) serves as writer, director and executive producer. Gale Anne Hurd (The Terminator, Aliens, Armageddon, The Incredible Hulk) chairman of Valhalla Motion Pictures serves as Executive Producer. David Alpert from Circle of Confusion serves as Executive Producer. Charles “Chic” Eglee (Dexter, The Shield, Dark Angel) serves as Executive Producer.
Here is a full list of major cities to be ‘infected’ by the Zombie outbreak:
New York City, Washington DC, Boston, Chicago,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Taipei, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Istanbul, Turkey Athens, Greece Sofia, Bulgaria Estonia, Tallinn
Belgrade, Serbia Munich, Germany Madrid, Spain Rome, Italy
Johannesburg, S. Africa London, UK – Westminster Lisbon, Portugal
Sao Paolo, Brazil Buenos Aires, Argentina Santiago, Chile Caracas, Venezuela
Bogota, Colombia Mexico City, Mexico Guatemala City, Guatemala
If you see a Zombie, be sure to tell us all about it!
Check out the official AMC Walking Dead website