Wait… so Frank Darabont has stepped down as “Walking Dead” showrunner?! Where the hell did that come from? Bet you nobody saw that one coming…
But I’m not here to talk about Darabont’s departure from the project. Instead I’m here to talk about executive producer Gale Anne Hurd, who’s still attached to this thing. You see AMC have gone and posted a brand new edition of ‘Dispatches from the Set’. Can you guess who they sit down with this time? You got it! Executive producer Gale Anne Hurd!
Like most of the other ‘Dispatches from the Set’ this interview is a good read if only to get a look into the insight of “The Walking Dead”, and what better person to help with that than an executive producer right? Hurd tackles a number of subjects in the recent interview including the love triangle with Rick, Lori and Shane, Daryl Dixon’s unique appeals, and the possibility of playing a zombie in Season 2, among other things of course. I’ve gone ahead and tapped a piece of the interview directly below.
Q: “What about Season 2 are you most looking forward to?”
A: “We have such terrific character-driven stories. Since we set up the world, now we’re able to delve into the dynamic of the characters among those survivors to a degree that we weren’t last season given the short order of episodes. And that’s what I’m most excited about — to really deliver on that promise from last year. We want to take some literary license with the comic book, such as being able to develop a love triangle between Rick and Shane and Lori. So that’s something that clearly, although it deviates from the comic book in the sense that Shane’s around a lot longer, it also gives us an opportunity for us to really explore what it means to each one of the characters.”
To check out the whole thing you’re going to want to head on over to AMC. “The Walking Dead” Season 2 kicks off on AMC starting October 16th with a returning cast that includes Andrew Lincoln, Laurie Holden (below), Sarah Wayne Callies, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey DeMunn and Norman Reedus, among others.
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