AMC’s Walking Dead Blog Interviews Glen Mazzara Teases The Governor

Recently, AMC released another interview this time with Showrunner Glen Mazzara.  In the interview, Mazzara talks about what it’s like writing for the show, how his family reacted to the news when it was announced that he is  the new showrunner, additionally he talks about The Governor and his past experiences with TV Shows among other things.

Q: How did your family react to the news you’d been named The Walking Dead’s show-runner?

A: A lot of people are lining up to be zombies. I actually brought my sons over to Greg Nicotero’s workshop, and part of me is I want to be made a zombie too. So maybe that will be a cameo some day, I don’t know. My son seemed to have a lot of unique ways to kill zombies. None that I really am interested in putting on TV, but that’s a big topic of conversation at the dinner table.

Q: You wrote Season 1 Episode 5, “Wildfire.” How did that experience compare to helping craft a whole season’s narrative arc?

A: Well, last year I wasn’t available to staff Season 1. So I was offered a freelance, and really just enjoyed it. I saw what Frank’s intention was with the show and sort of broke the story and wrote to fulfill that. So then this year he brought me on to staff and we hired a great writing staff and we really worked out the season arc. So a lot of it is just following that road map. There will certainly be surprises and deviations from that, but I think for the most part, the characters’ journeys were discussed in depth at the beginning of the season. What’s been surprising is that in the graphic novel the story that takes place on Hershel’s farm is really only a few issues. We’ve been able to mine that for many episodes, and we’re very excited about the depth to which we’re able to push the characters, the different dynamics that we’re able to explore.

To read the entire interview click here!

-Dane

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