The Walking Dead Season 4 Preview: Show Direction to Focus More on Zombies and Comic Books
The Walking Dead Season 4 will follow more of the comic book series said new showrunner Scott M. Gimple is an interview.
Gimple will be taking over for Glen Mazzara who took over halfway through season two and finished up three. Gimple meanwhile, is responsible for penning some of the show's best episodes such as "Pretty Much Dead Already" and "Clear."
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly he said he is "excited" for upcoming episodes that are ripped straight from the comic books.
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"You know that the show and the comic book are in very different places, so in some ways we can't do exactly what was in the comic book in many ways. But the way I look upon it is that it's sort of like a remix of the comic books," Gimple said. "Some of the things will be very direct as we move forward. A lot of things will just be kind of the same content but in different contexts - different characters doing some of the things we saw in the comic books, situations from the comic book, but sort of in different locations, involving different people."
In season three, the show saw a departure of the focus being around the zombies, and instead turned to human problems. It made the show more intense, but it took away the sense of being fearful for the unknown and made zombies secondary characters that were easily compatible.
Gimple will bring the zombies back to the forefront, and when asked whether there will be a difference between a group of zombies and a full herd by EW, he replied:
"I will say an emphatic 'yes.' It will be very, very noticeable in the first few episodes. I don't want to sell that the population density of walkers in the world is, like, insane - like you can't walk through the forest without experiencing tons and tons and tons of zombies. The flip side is, we will see some herding. We will see some very arresting examples of how zombies own the world now."
He continued, "A non-frightening zombie is a lame zombie...there's been some pretty horrible stuff, some very scary stuff, some imagery that is highly unpleasant in an awesome way."
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," said Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd to MTV. "That means everything else takes a back seat ... At least as far as when times are rather calm."
"The Walking Dead" Season 4 will arrive this Sunday on AMC at 9 p.m. EST.
