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It’s like The Walking Dead for young females. The CW is yet to make its first in-cycle pilot order this season, but the network just made a late spec script purchase with Awakening, a zombie drama from Canadian writer-producers William Laurin and Glenn Davis (The Listener). Going after a spec so late in the game usually means that the network has a potential pilot order in mind, but for now, the CW is not going that far with Awakening, which centers on two sisters who come of age and face off against one another amidst the beginning of a zombie uprising. Laurin and Davis’ script was first taken to Reveille which came on board to produce. Now that it has landed at the CW, it is being laid off at Warner Bros. TV, which will co-produce with Reveille. Laurin, Davis, Howard T. Owens, Carolyn Bernstein and Todd Cohen are executive producing the project. Overall, the CW has only made one pilot order this development season, an off-cycle pickup of dramedy Danni Lowinski. Laurin and Davis are with APA, Reveille is with WME.
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Um, isn’t this idea just a direct ripoff of the two sisters from the movie Zombieland? Just pathetic.
So are you saying that any zombie project that features young sisters will be a rip-off of Zombieland?
This seems to be about two sisters at odds, not two sisters looking out for each other and trying to survive.
wow. if you haven’t read the script you have no idea what it’s about. it’s nothing like zombieland.
While I welcome well-done, original zombie TV properties, this does seem a bit rip-offish…Walking Dead has been in print since ’04, and this is almost trying to take advantage of the success of the TV series. All it can do is succeed or fail….
Not the same thing at all. Also this script was completed in September two months before Walking Dead premiered. The timing is smart, not knee-jerk.
As if The Walking Dead was the first show or movie or story to feature a zombie apocalypse!
Obviously they’re capitalizing on that show’s popularity but so what? That’s not a rip-off.
Way to go, Thom Sherman! I knew that goatee and man-jewelry wasn’t just frontin’!
You know what TV and film need? More zombie stories. Really. How cool would that be if we had even more zombie stories? Like, forget stories about other things. Just zombies, and when you run out of things to talk about with zombies, just add more zombies. Wouldn’t that be great? Especially from really talented guys like this? The Listener? Man, that was some top-drawer stuff. If only we could have lots and lots more zombie stories that were that good.
Jesus christ. Where do I get off?
So with the CW not ordering many pilots..thus far..would it be safe to say that they are planning on renewing many of the series on its current schedule?..
So these two sisters are having differences and facing off? These girls already sound stupid. Working together to survive the effing zombie apocalypse should be first priority!
I hope this doesn’t end up 90210 with zombies.
The script is brilliant. Witty and horrific at the same time. The blogs who have dismissed this project so cavalierly have no idea how clever and smart the material is.
A lot of people seem to have read the script, and say it´s amazing……I´d blog/tweet about it too if I had it…
I’ve read 300 scripts in the past month and Awakening is probably the best of the bunch. Old school Buffy meets awesome if the vampires were zombies and if Buffy was, well, a zombie. What people don’t get is how different the lore is. No thing like any other “zombie” material out there. Totally original. Loved the twist at the end! Congrats, Glenn and William, I hope your show gets picked up!