Tyler Perry and the hit AMC series "The Walking Dead" are business partners now.
Perry's newly acquired Fort McPherson, a former army base just southwest of downtown Atlanta, is now home to 14 sound stages. His movie "Boo! A Madea Halloween," in theaters today, filmed there as did the HBO adaptaion of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," starring Perry's good friend Oprah Winfrey.
And now there's a new sheriff in town: Rick Grimes.
"The Walking Dead is a client. They'll be there for three years," Perry said during a visit to the Ellen DeGeneres show to promote his new movie.
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"So they’re just walking around, you see zombies?" Ellen asked. Apparently that didn't seem appealing at first.
"That was a problem for me," Perry said. "When they asked I was like ehhh .. I don’t do zombies, and witches, and demons, and things like that. I said, let me go watch the show. I got hooked!"
Ellen was impressed: "That’s cool that they shoot there."
It's not so cool in the middle of the night.
"It’s not cool that they’re walking around at 2 o’clock in the morning, zombies going grrrrr .."
Easy problem to solve, Ellen observed: "Don’t go then!"
