Breaking Bad Director Michelle Maxwell MacLaren Taking on The Walking Dead

By Uncle Creepy
July 5th, 2010

We told you a while back that prolific director Frank Darabont would only be directing the pilot episode of his adaptation of the Robert Kirkman zombie epic, The Walking Dead and now rumblings of the next director taking the rotting reigns have begun.

Arrow in the Head now reports that Michelle Maxwell MacLaren, one of the director's behind another of AMC's original series, "Breaking Bad" and producer on "X-Files", will be taking on the undead.

AMC's "The Walking Dead" is based on Robert Kirkman's popular comic series. It chronicles the months and years following a zombie apocalypse. Frank Darabont is the project's writer, director of the pilot, and exec producer with Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert also exec producing. KNB will be handling the effects, and Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey DeMunn, IronE Singleton, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Chandler Riggs, Steven Yeun, Michael Rooker, Emma Bell, Adrian Kali Turner, Linds Edwards, Keith Allen Hayes, and Jim Colemanare are all set to star.

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- Uncle Creepy