New Picture of Rick and AICN’s Set Visit!
Last week we got our first look at Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes, the main character in both Image Comic’s The Walking Dead and AMC’s live action TV adaption. Thanks to Aint It Cool News, a new picture of Lincoln as Grime has popped up, and it’s pretty damn sweet! You can click the image below to see the full image.
It appears that Rick is at a gas station in the picture, which could be from a scene previous to the picture we got before of Rick walking away from a patrol car which appears to be out of gas. There is a moment in the comic book like this, but it’s not quite the same, so this scene is probably a new one made for the TV show; something I think is pretty damn cool, if true!
You can read the full super-long , spoiler-heavy set visit here, but I felt like sharing a few small and interesting parts with you. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!
- For those worried that AMC is going to shackle Darabont and his collaborators the only thing I can say is that I was there for one of the earliest scenes of the series and I saw an eight year old zombie girl with her cheek chewed off, teeth showing through, get shot in the head.
- David Tattersall (The Majestic, The Green Mile, Star Wars prequels) was the cinematographer of the pilot, another great indicator of a professional approach to this story. They were also shooting 35mm, not HD, yet another bonus.
- Each take went on for maybe two and a half minutes as Rick slowly walked towards the gas station, a gas can and funnel in his hands. He stoops and peers into some cars as he passes, cautiously approaching the station. One camera was ahead of Rick as he walked, backing up in front of him. Another was a longer, static shot, seeing him walk from far away and grow larger in the frame as he approached.
- The next shot was essentially the same action, but from much further away. Long lenses tracked Rick as he wandered down the hill, weaving in-between abandoned cars. The A camera always had him in frame, but the B camera would sometimes lose him, big blurry cars in the foreground obscuring him, only to pick him up again as he passed behind them.
- in order to keep the make-up from melting in the sweltering heat, the zombies pretty much had the run of the air-conditioned Texaco interior. I hesitated to leave the blissful coolness of the gas station store, but upon exiting I was face to face with little Addy Miller, who was all dressed up as the little girl zombie.
- The action from earlier is repeated as Rick walks by their windows, peering in and seeing them. But now the camera is on the zombies, seeing Rick in the background. After Rick passes Frank gave it a moment and then he pulled the trigger on a .38 pistol. He fired blanks of course. It was to represent Rick shooting the little girl zombie.
- In the first take the zombies jerked awake, looked around and slowly opened their respective car doors, exiting their automobiles and out of the shot.
- Darabont tweaked this a bit and in the next take instead of “jerking awake” the zombie merely open their eyes and they exit the cars a little bit quicker. They got a few takes of this action and moved on.
- I thought for a second and I said, “I like that Rick isn’t a super hero. I like that as the story goes on he’s put repeatedly through the ringer. He’s a broken man. No matter what he does, how strong of a leader he is, people die and that wears him down. He’s going to reach the point of no return at some point. He’s already cracking up in the current run of books.”
- Lincoln smiled and told me he and Darabont had just had a conversation about Rick not 45 minutes before I entered that trailer where he said the exact same thing. Rick doesn’t have an unlimited amount of himself to give. Everything he does, everything he witnesses, everybody he loses ends up taking a piece from him until he, eventually, won’t have anything left to give.
- To be continued! Check in tomorrow night for the second part of this set report, which includes all the little girl zombie action, a recap of my lunch conversation with Darabont (I did ask when we’ll get to the prison… find out when tomorrow!) and much more!
- Tomorrow I’ll have an exclusive zombie pic never seen before! Come on back now, y’hear!
There are plenty more where that came from, trust me! It was pretty hard choosing which to put up and which to leave behind, as it was all just too cool and all of it could have been put up! My favorite part of what Quint put up was probably (and of course) the scene with Miller and Lincoln, I guess we can scratch her off the list as Sophia! Another thing I really liked was how into the role of Grimes Lincoln is; Robert Kirkman told us in an an interview with AMC how determined and focused Lincoln was to the role, but this just sells me completely. To me I think Lincoln is in it for the story of Rick, much more than he is just for shooting zombies. I personally think that he understands the true concept of Rick and that’s what got him interested in the character of him. I can’t wait to see the zombie picture tomorrow either!
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[...] New Zombie Picture & Part 2 of AICN’s Set Visit! Posted by Corey Anderson on Jun 22, 2010 in The Walking Dead News | 0 comments ShareEarlier today Ain’t It Cool News put up part one of two articles describing their time on the set of AMC’s The Walking Dead, also giving us a new picture of Lincoln as Grimes. In part one of the two-piece article; Quint, the reporter, gave us a pretty descriptive and heavily spoiled description of a scene with Andrew Lincoln, a gas station, and a young zombie girl. He [Quint] also told us about Lincoln’s passion for his character Rick Grimes and the pretty awesome camera work Darabont had set up for the scene that he [Quint] saw. You can read part one here. [...]
[...] has been some pretty awesome set visits in the past, AICN‘s was probably the coolest one there for a while. MTV takes that from AICN now with theirs. [...]