The Walking Dead - Interview with Gale Anne Hurd

Last night Gale Anne Hurd, the producer of the hit AMC television series The Walking Dead, stopped by the TIFF Lightbox courtesy of the CFC. She was interviewed by film critic Richard Crouse, who asked her about everything from the beginnings of the Walking Dead to how she started in the business. The CFC also aired the seventh episode of the season that aired last fall, followed by a clip of the second half of the second season that begins on February 12th.

Gale Anne Hurd started out as an assistant to Roger Corman after graduating from Stanford. It was while working with him that she met James Cameron, whom she later made several movies with including The Terminator, Aliens and the Abyss. She told the crowd that she was a geek before there was even a word for it, and if you look at the variety of projects she’s worked on you’ll see that she has a history with speculative fiction pieces. She’s even has a few comic books movies to her credit, including both Hulk movies and the two most recent Punisher flicks. It’s no wonder that she ended up working for the Walking Dead.

Mrs. Hurd told the crowd that before she was involved with the project the series had been pitched to NBC. Unfortunately a pilot was never made, and the series idea was left for dead.

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