Creator of The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman has opened up in a new interview with Screenrant all about what fans of the series can expect when it returns for its seventh season.
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"There's a lot of really great stuff coming" he said. "I love that people have been focusing so much on this cliffhanger because it has distracted them from analysing what happened in the books around that time, and what is possibly coming in the seventh season. It's pretty great."
Speaking about the show's new Big Bad, Negan, he added: "He's going to be this ever-present threat in the show from now on. This amazing 12 minutes that we got in season 6 is going to be nearly every episode now for a while moving forward. We're going to be expanding the world at the same time. So we're going to have this huge catalyst, these saviors, this Negan guy walking around doing all kinds of horrible stuff."
The addition of some big characters is looming, with Ezekiel and his pet tiger Shiva making an appearance in the trailer for the new episodes.
"This is really just kinda kicking things off in a huge way. This is almost like a second season 1. It's like a new chapter in The Walking Dead. So I think we're turning the page, so to speak, and setting the stage for what's going to become for many, many seasons."
The Walking Dead season 7 premieres in the US on AMC on October 23 and follows in the UK on FOX soon after.
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