It looks like The Walking Dead will finish the back half of season six with Negan’s arrival and he’ll look very familiar to comic book fans …
The Walking Dead will return for the back half of season six on Valentine’s Day (somehow that’s rather fitting) with Rick and the other survivors from Alexandria still trying to cut a path through the walkers that have invaded their town after the walls came down.
One of the most highly anticipated parts of the second half of season six is the arrival of Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who will be playing ultimate bad guy Negan — the leader of the Saviors who ran into Daryl, Sasha and Abraham on their drive back to town after scavenging for supplies. Comic book readers know that Negan is one of the most outrageous, outlandish and despicable characters ever created in fictional history.
And it appears The Walking Dead TV show is going to keep him as true to his original character as possible.
“(The arrival of Negan) will see him brought to life straight out of the books,” Walking Dead executive producer and show runner Scott Gimple said recently.
Negan is just one of the many threats that are looming when The Walking Dead returns on Sunday, Feb. 14 because there’s more hiding inside the shattered lives of the people inhabiting Alexandria than what we’ve seen already. Not that The Walking Dead is ever the cheeriest show on television, but it appears things are going to get rather grim by season’s end.
“The back half of the season will involve some crying and screaming at the TV set,” Gimple said.
Part of that anguish comes from the characters who are already inhabiting Alexandria because as Rick and the others have tried to teach them how to survive, they are faced with new and more extreme challenges that push them to the limit.
The people who just moved to Alexandria as well as the native citizens are starting to realize just what they are capable of doing and things get much scarier before they get better (if they ever get better).
“Some of the scariest people in the back half of the season are our people,” Gimple teases. “These characters are at their strongest right now, but the problem is, the threats of the world are also at their strongest. We’ll see these immovable objects meet.”
It looks like The Walking Dead will present Rick and the other survivors with plenty of challenges when the show returns and a safe bet would be by the time season six comes to an end, some familiar faces won’t be decorating the cast any longer.
H/T: TV Guide
