Robert Kirkman recently spoke out about his hit creation, The Walking Dead and touched on a number of topics. Here's the best from his interview with
E! News:
On having 13 episodes for Season Two versus 6 for Season One: It is no problem at all to me, just because coming from comics I'm used to producing—for The Walking Dead I produce 12 comics a year and then I do three or four other comics on top of that. I guess it's somewhat daunting but I'm not even writing this stuff by myself. So it seems like it's a little bit easier.
On whether Kirkman already has and ending for the show: Yeah, it's something we've discussed briefly. I would like to do the comic book for 15 more years or so—in comic books that's completely normal, not completely unheard of, but it's kind of unheard of for a show like this to go so much as 10 years. So there's definitely going to have to be an end to this but while we have discussed it here and there briefly, we haven't really nailed down an exact end date just yet. We're going into our second season now, so I think it's normal just to look ahead and be a little optimistic and see where things are going to take us.
On whether the top actor's are safe [i.e. won't die]: I don't want to spoil anything but I'm hoping that the television show will quickly gain the same reputation that the comic book has for being fairly bold and playing like no one is safe. So it may be a pretty exciting second season.
On whether Season Three will take place at the prison: Possibly. I think that's something that has been discussed but I wouldn't want to nail things down exactly. We want to keep some surprise out there. I can say that the prison is definitely in the cards chronologically. It might make sense for that to possibly appear in season three. Who knows?
On who's his top choice to play The Governor: Ed O'Neill. He's my go-to because he's one of my favorite actors and I'd like to meet him—but I don't know if he's be a particular good Governor. It's a good thing I don't make casting decisions just by myself because I'd probably just pick people I want to hang out with: Ed O'Neil, maybe John Stamos—he seems like a cool guy.
The interview goes on to touch on how people turn into zombies, whether we will ever see a prequel story focusing on the zombie apocalypse, and what he's looking forward to the most at
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E! for the rest of the interview.
The Walking Dead is a monthly black-and-white American comic book series published by Image Comics beginning in 2003. The comic was created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore, who was replaced by Charlie Adlard from issue #7 onward, although Moore continued to do the covers through issue #24. The story chronicles the travels of a group of people trying to survive in a world stricken by a zombie apocalypse. The series won the 2010 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series at San Diego Comic-Con International. A television series was announced to be in production on August 11, 2009 and premiered on October 31, 2010 on AMC. Season 2 will air in October.
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