Thanks to Mal for the heads up.
The first season doesn't air on AMC until Halloween, but Darabont revealed to Fangoria magazine that a second season is now official. (In short: Christmas has come early for fans of good things.)
According to ComicBookMovie.com, the second season will begin shooting February 2011 and will have a 13-episode run, more than double the first season's six-episode arc. Producer Gale Anne Hurd confirmed that the series will expand to a set 13-episode season from here on out.
Darabont, who wrote and directed the pilot, spoke of his plans to introduce fan favorite Michonne early on in the second season's run. He would also like to include some of the "environmental elements" that take place during Volume 2 of Kirkman's book.
"It would be great not just to get out of the heat, but to present a different idea to the audience visually and tonally by having it be winter," Darabont said. "There's some really cool stuff that Kirkman did, where they find the one zombie that's frozen to the ground. I'd never seen that before and that's really cool." (Does that mean Rick and his people are going to the prison?)
As for his plans to make ninja-sword weilding Michonne a live-action character, Darabont made it clear that she was a priority during the show's panel at Comic-Con 2010. However the series introduces her, Darabont implies that her entrance will be nothing short of iconic.
"...Boy, is she a character I can't wait to get to – when she comes striding out of the wasteland like a Clint Eastwood f!@#ing spaghetti western character cross-melded with some samurai movie, like the Baby Cart character with the f!@#ing sword, and there's just a little drift of snow in the air. I would love to put that on film."
Season One of Walking Dead airs October 31 at 10 p.m. on AMC.
Source: IGN
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