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"Frank Darabont has insisted that the upcoming Walking Dead television series remains true to Robert Kirkman&amp;#039;s original comic.  During an appearance at Comic-Con, the writer and director revealed that he loved &amp;quot;doing something bold&amp;quot; with the show but did not want to detract from the comic&amp;#039;s roots. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always said I think the template left by Mr Kirkman is an extremely good one, but I&amp;#039;ve also said that we should take every interesting detour we fancy taking as long as we follow in the long term what Robert&amp;#039;s done,&amp;quot; he explained.  &amp;quot;What that&amp;#039;s leading to is a lot of cool ideas that will surprise the hardcore fans of the comic. There&amp;#039;s a lot of stuff happening that they&amp;#039;re not going to see coming.&amp;quot; Kirkman agreed, admitting that he feared the show&amp;#039;s storylines would be too obvious.  &amp;quot;That was important to me because I didn&amp;#039;t want people watching the show and say, &amp;#039;Oh, I know what&amp;#039;s coming next&amp;#039;. They&amp;#039;re doing a good job of taking the best parts of the comic, expanding them and adding new things.&amp;quot; The Walking Dead will debut in October on AMC.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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