Details on Darabont’s Direction for “Walking Dead” Emerge

What would the second season of The Walking Dead have looked like had Frank Darabont stayed on as producer and show runner?

Probably a lot different than what we saw in the first half of the season.

Reports of how Darabont wanted to start the season and where it would go have begun to emerge.

It could’ve all started in Atlanta with soldiers parachuting in to the zombie-infested city. We would have focused on one soldier in particular — a kid who ends up holed up in a tank with an unexploded grenade in his hand.  That’s according to an  e-mail to Ain’t It Cool News, where Darabont details the opening moments of season two.

Described as “wild card” and one that deviated from the on-going storyline, Darabont offered a few other details on where it would have gone.

“After the soldier dies this squalid, lonely death,” he writes, “and after a quiet lapse of time … we do a shot-for-shot reprise from the first episode of the first season: Rick comes scrambling into the tank to escape the horde … blows that zombie soldier’s brains out … now Rick’s trapped .. fade out … the end.”