The Walking Dead Season 4 Premiere to Feature Zombie Babies, Character Changes?
The Walking Dead season premiere is all set for this Sunday but those involved in the show are hinting of major challenges as well as new characters taking on bigger roles.
Gale Anne Hurd, executive producer of the series, spoke to MTV about changes to the show, such as upgrading writer Scott Gimple to lead writer.
"He wrote many of our favorite episodes. What's great about Scott is that he combines the ability to write great, almost intimate character moments within larger epic tableaus," said Hurd. "There's a sense of completion in his episodes."
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Also revealed is that secondary characters such as Beth, Carol, and Tyreese will be stepping up in a major way to as main characters.
"Rick really wants to focus his efforts on being what he hasn't been so far, which is a really good father to Carl, and now to his baby Judith," she said. "That means everything else takes a back seat ... At least as far as when times are rather calm."
A trailer for the upcoming season of "The Walking Dead" premiered at this year's Comic Con. It shows most of the cast making their return including Andrew Lincoln as Rick, Danai Gurira as Michonne, and Lauren Cohan as Maggie.
Gurira hinted at the possibility of a zombie baby making an appearance in this new season.
"There's a little hint of that in the premiere," she said in a recent interview. The show's executive producer Gregory Nicotero said the series almost had one appear in the third season when Daryl and Maggie went searching for baby formula at a day-care center.
Robert Kirkman, another executive producer on 'The Walking Dead' also commented on the zombie infant.
"It'll be something different from the baby who was seen in [2004's] 'Dawn of the Dead' remake, which was horrific and done so well," he said. "There's still room for us to do something different and cool."
Season 4 premieres on Oct. 13 at 9 p.m., and the Season 3 Netflix premiere should be sometime shortly before that date.
