Re: Did the Walking Dead Copy this Movie?

This is an excerpt from an interview with the Walking Dead creator:

Presumably you had seen that film when you wrote the first issue of the comic?

RK: No. Welcome to my life seven years ago. It was complete coincidence. I saw 28 Days Later shortly before the first issue of Walking Dead was released. That first issue came out in October of 2003 and 28 Days Later was released in the States in June of 2003. So we were working on our second issue by the time I saw it. It was going to be a matter of somehow trying to restage the entire first issue, because it was a very similar coma opening. I made a decision—which I pretty much regret at this point—I said, “You know what? It’s so different [from that point on], I will probably never hear anything about this.” And I was wrong.
EW: So when you saw the movie you must have thought, “Oh s—!”
RK: Yeah. It was a little annoying. But great minds think alike, right?

To be honest, his answer is dead on about the rest of the series...because beyond the hospital scene the stories are not even similar.