Is Empire of the Dead about to infect AMC?

Zombie-walk Empire

We first got word that Empire of the Dead, based on the 15-issue Marvel comic book series by George A. Romero, was heading to television back in May. We haven't heard a whole lot since then, but at the recent Wizard World Comic Con in Louisville, artist Arthur Sudyam offered an update on the series. 

According to Sudyam, Empire of the Dead will join fellow zombie dramas The Walking Dead and Fear The Walking Dead over at AMC. One has to wonder if there's really room for another zombie-centric drama over at AMC, but with The Walking Dead still pulling in millions of views every week the undead are clearly still very much in demand. 

AMC has yet confirm Sudyam's claims, so this could just be a big ole misunderstanding. Still, he was pretty adamant that this would be the network's 'new big' zombie series, so we're tempted to believe there could be some truth to what he's saying.

Interestingly, Empire doesn't depict a straight-up zombie apocalypse, shaking up the formula by throwing vamps into the mix. Whether or not this will be enough to set the series apart from the glut of zombie media currently saturating film, TV and comics remains to be seen. Still, it'd be nice to see George Romero grab a slice of the action; he was, after all, doing this whole zombie thing decades before it became cool.