Given the recent successes of movies like Warm Bodies, as well as TV series like iZombie, the idea that the demographic for the walking dead would gradually get younger and younger makes plenty of sense.
Besides, we doubt that Zombies will go all in on the blood, gore, and carnage that we expect from other forms of zombie fiction.
A few years ago we might’ve found ourselves surprised to see The Disney Channel proceed with a premise predicated entirely on a horror concept, but these days the use of zombies in a kids’ property makes quite a bit of sense.
Plenty of us here at CinemaBlend have talked at length about the fact that zombies no longer scare us like they used to, and seems to make them fair game for storytelling in a wide variety of genres.