Atlanta Inconveniences Population, Sucks Up to AMC to Facilitate Anti-Zombie TV Series ‘The Walking Dead’
It’s just deplorable how low some cities will sink to try and get a piece of the lucrative Anti-Zombie pie:
Atlanta residents may have a reason to use the CDC’s Zombie Preparedness Kit as scores of zombies descended on the Cumberland area today.
The zombies were part of the 160-person film crew that was filming the second season of the AMC television series “The Walking Dead.” All 13 episodes of the show’s second season will film in and around the Metro Atlanta area, said AMC’s unit publicist. The filming, along with other projects in the state, brings with it an estimated $2.1 billion economic impact in Georgia.
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Filming was done at the Riverwood office park at the intersection of Cobb Parkway and Riverwood Parkway for several hours Monday morning.
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When asked why AMC chose to film on location, AMC’s representative, who asked not to be identified, explained that it had everything to do with Atlanta’s Southern hospitality.
“I do know they chose to come back to Atlanta because the city was so nice to production,” she said.
Roads in the Cumberland Mall area will be closed today until 9 p.m. due to filming and the threat zombies pose to commuters. The roads subject to the closure include Cobb Galleria Parkway from Akers Mill Road to Cumberland Boulevard; Riverwood Parkway from Cobb Galleria Parkway to Cobb Parkway; and at Cobb Parkway and Riverwood Parkway.
Cobb Police officers are monitoring barricades at the entrances to these roads in order to keep the zombies contained, but also to keep commuters from interrupting filming.
“Production works with the DOT (Department of Transportation) on all road closures,” AMC’s unit publicist said. “And the DOT helps notify people in advance so they know what to expect in their morning commute.”
I apologize for the lengthy excerpt, but almost all of the information in the original piece is vital to our discussion here, and to illustrate just how far Atlanta and the Georgia state government will go to grab some of the Walking Dead mega-bucks.
(I’d wager that 2.1 billion figure is for something like all films shot in Georgia, not just Walking Dead, but who knows)
Doesn’t the state care at all about its native Zombie population? Or, for that matter, anyone who needs to get to and from work, Living and Zombie alike? I mean, we’re talking about closing down public roads in order to facilitate the production of a hate movie, using public goods not just for private ends, but EVIL private ends. It’s openly anti-democratic, disgustingly and discriminatingly so in fact.
Uggh.
Where can they go from here? What even worse insult to the hardworking and taxpaying Zombie citizen can Robert Kirkman and AMC come up with? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
In the meantime it’s worth noting that the good citizens of Georgia are paying a direct cost for the Anti-Zombie fervor driving the nation, and that includes the local Differently Animated population, who now have to wait in interminable traffic, potentially missing appointments, time with their family, even school plays featuring little Zombie Billy and Betty, all so that ‘The Walking Dead’ can film its slick and vicious propaganda to push out across the basic cable of the nation.
For shame, AMC, and of course, continuing shame to Walking Dead guru and general evil supergenius Robert Kirkman, who has been engaged in a Twitter feud with the ZRC over the last few days.
The ZRC is honored to do battle with him, of course, now and in the future.
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