The ninth season of The Walking Dead has been a tumultuous and unsettling one in many ways (especially with the loss of Andrew Lincoln and fellow lead Lauren Cohan early on) but the show’s six-year time jump and its tonal shift have been a source of new lifeblood for the AMC series, according to Season 9 showrunner Angela Kang.
“What I really love is this kind of horror-western vibe that we really wanted to play with and it’s really inspired a lot by the comic books,” Kang said at The Walking Dead panel at PaleyFest La. After pausing to acknowledge the ovation of the comics-loving partisan audience, Kang continued: “There’s a [time] jump in the comics but you know we decided to go a little further ahead in time than the comics do…I kind of felt like,...
“What I really love is this kind of horror-western vibe that we really wanted to play with and it’s really inspired a lot by the comic books,” Kang said at The Walking Dead panel at PaleyFest La. After pausing to acknowledge the ovation of the comics-loving partisan audience, Kang continued: “There’s a [time] jump in the comics but you know we decided to go a little further ahead in time than the comics do…I kind of felt like,...
- 3/23/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
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