The fourth season of AMC’s The Walking Dead is still months away, but fans are always hungry for more news about the zombie drama. There’s a new photo of Daryl Dixon and new showrunner Scott Gimble has done an interview about the upcoming season.
First up, Entertainment Weekly has a new photo of Daryl wearing a bandanna around the lower half of his face. That could mean anything. Has a zombie ripped off half of his face? Did he jsut eat something really messy and not have a napkin to wipe it off? We’re betting on the zombie attack.
Gimble is taking over for departing showrunner Glen Mazzara. He’s been working on the show for three years, so he’s already well-versed in the characters and creator Robert Kirkman’s post-zombie apocalypse world.
“It's my third year now, and I've been able to benefit from the lessons we've learned, and I'm just trying to apply them,” he explained to The Hollywood Reporter. “Whether it comes to writing, edits, talking with the crew, working on big sequences, I've been lucky to see people do it, both the triumphs and pitfalls. The biggest thing that I know is that it's all about collaboration, and that goes on with all the people in Georgia and all the people in L.A. I'm constantly on the phone with the rest of my executive producers, picking their brains, asking for their help when I need it, and all of us pulling together to get things done.”
Gimble also said that he’s taking a “greatest hits approach,” mixing the nuanced style Frank Darabont brought to the early episodes with Mazzara’s fast-paced style.
“Both have made unbelievable contributions and done great stuff for the show. Frank and Glen are both unbelievably passionate guys,” he said about his predecessors. “Both are fans of the genre, and I've absolutely picked up things from seeing them work. They both know how to scare people pretty well, and I want to scare people as well as they did.”
The Walking Dead returns on Sundays in October on AMC.
image: AMC/Entertainment Weekly
