Robert Kirkman Talks to Collider About Season 2

Collider got a chance to sit down with Robert Kirkman at this years C2E2 and when asked how the creators of the TV show were going to outdo the first season, he had this to say:

“I can say, sitting here knowing what I know about the second season, that you can’t even see the bar because it’s been raised so much. There is all kinds of crazy stuff that is coming up. I’m really excited. I mean, you get 8 guys that like zombies that know they are doing a T.V. show like The Walking Dead, and they know that you can get away with the kind of things that we got away with on the first season. It really becomes just an effort to just find that thing that AMC is going to make us change. So we all sitting there going, “Oh, they are going to make us change that!” So there is a lot of cool stuff coming up.”

 

And when asked about  how far they are going to push the boundaries in Season 2 he said:

“I worry that we are getting a little too like, “Oh, yeah. They will let us do anything” just because they have been so accommodating and seemingly breaking their own rules by allowing us to put this kind of stuff on T.V. It’s really kind of shocking, but I think it’s a testament to how successful the show has been that they have been willing go to that extra mile. They are allowing a zombie show to be a zombie show. They are not pulling punches at all, and I think that is a big part of its success. People who like zombie movies can sit down and watch this, and not feel like they are getting a light version of a zombie movie. We plan to stretch those boundaries to the test on the second season.”

Finally, Kirkman said that while they are still working it out, he does plan on writing one or more episodes in the Second Season.  And as for the long term life of the series, Kirkman said that  “There are different ideas that Frank had for different episodes from the beginning of the first season,” Kirkman said. “He has ideas for the third season. We talk about the third and fourth season a lot in the writers’ room, which haven’t been picked up by AMC, but we have high hopes. So there is a lot of longterm planning. Anything that we couldn’t quite fit into the first season will just kind of happen in the [second] season.”

-Dane

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