What do the zombies stand for? Are they metaphorical or are they just dead people walking?
Frank: To me they’re just dead people walking around. I mean, of course they’re metaphorical–not to be glib about the answer–of course they are, but it feels, to me, like those metaphors have been covered by filmmakers. The giants upon who’s shoulders we stand. They’ve kind-of laid those metaphors out through decades of these films–particular George Romero. I don’t know that I’m going to bring any thing new to those metaphors, as a film-maker. So, my focus is really on the human part of the story. We’ll certainly find metaphors as we go. That’s one of the wonderful things about the creative process–is that you find if you care about what you’re doing you find yourself saying things as you develop a script or as you‘re finalizing the pages as you are in the creative process you go, “Oh, wow, this is–this episode kind of turned out to be a little bit about this hidden thematic thing,” and that’s great. But it’s not like we have a set agenda of, you know, metaphorical touch points going i
