Walking dead zombie hunter4/19/2023 The reality is that the first book out on a currently hot celebrity does, with rare exception, end up selling the most copies. ![]() And I have no problem with somebody getting it out there first, even if it’s not me. At this point let me make it plain that I am not above cut and paste (or as we refer to it in the business ‘research and good journalism’) but only as a last resort when nobody is talking on the record or is asking for money to jog their memory. The first of the paperback originals out of the box were slim affairs, ravaging Wikipedia and the first wave of magazine articles for cut and paste quickies that barely squeaked into double page count length. ![]() It was time to unleash the literary hounds. All the pop culture dots were being connected. The slick monthlies and all branches of mainstream media had also bought in to this sullen but magnetic actor. And it was not only the horror and geek mags who took notice. The bottom line was that Norman Reedus had, on the strength of playing a hard-bitten survivor in a zombie-infested land, risen from the ashes of a resume that was never less than interesting nor more than obscure to become the next hot commodity in aisle seven of the Hollywood Meat Market. The gods and/or the Hollywood tastemakers (aren’t they one and the same?) take a shine to his ability to kick zombie ass, wax loner in the classic Garbo/Easy Rider sense and project a sexual question mark leaning precariously close to gay while basically seeing the world through a jaundiced, albeit ruggedly individual squint that even the most supportive observers of Reedus have often described as the look of a junkie long past his last fix.īut enough of the preliminaries. He had been auditioning for an existing character but, when that did not pan out, the producers of the show had been so hypnotized by his sullen, introverted and powerful anti-hero ways that they created the role of crossbow master/uber zombie fighter Daryl Dixon literally out of whole cloth and a group of screenwriters fell all over themselves to write for him. Norman Reedus was a last minute addition to the cast of the always daring AMC’s latest television series The Walking Dead in 2010 just as the gut-munching show was about to launch its inaugural season. Which ultimately is the way Norman Reedus would want it. Norman Reedus: The Unauthorized Biography: True Tales of the Walking Dead’s Zombie Hunter pulls no punches, tells only the truth and leaves the rest up to the reader. Norman Reedus’ world is about real life wrapped around a world of fantasy. The author’s research was relentless, digging into deep, dark and obscure corners. They were willing to talk and they revealed stories about Reedus that even the most fanatic fans won’t know. New York Times Bestselling author Marc Shapiro has dug deep, tracking down people who knew him way back when as well as in the here and now for original interviews. ![]() Oh yes, there is that penchant for roadkill. You’ll discover why Reedus said thanks but no thanks to an offer to play opposite a reigning superstar, how he became Daryl Dixon and how The Walking Dead changed his life. This book chronicles his days as a defiant young man in a fractured but ultimately liberating family life, allegations of physical abuse from Reedus himself, to his struggles in the Los Angeles art underground, alcohol problems that saw him in AA and, for a time, homeless, his breakthrough in acting, modeling and the slow, steady and never boring journey through love, fatherhood and his often truly odd professional choices. In Norman Reedus: An Unauthorized Biography: True Tales of the Walking Dead’s Zombie Hunter, the first detailed look at Norman Reedus’ life and times, you will get it all. And there is much in his portrayal that is informed by a real life that is equally flawed and equally scarred. His Daryl Dixon is a very flawed, psychologically scarred character in a zombie-infested world. Where does reality stop and fantasy begin? In the case of The Walking Dead superstar Norman Reedus, the question is still very much up in the air.
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