The Walking Dead Season 3 may still be airing, but filming wrapped last year and everyone is moving onto the fourth season. With Scott M. Gimple officially hired as the showrunner of The Walking Dead, we were curious to learn how the new season may differ from the past seasons. Thankfully, Robert Kirkman and Gale Anne Hurd provided some details during a recent interview.
Our friends at Comic Book Resources caught up with the two during PaleyFest, and Robert Kirkman stressed that the series will continue to include major parts of the comic book series in the fourth season:
"We've always been sort of moving in and out of the comic book, and I think that we're going to continue to do that. I think that there are huge elements of the comic book in Season 3. Moving into Season 4, it's going to be pretty much the same..."
It's a little early to know what's in store for the Woodbury and prison groups in the season finale, but one thing Gale Anne Hurd says we can expect from Season 4 is an increased walker threat:
"We are going to amp up the threat of the walkers, because they've started to seem like a manageable threat. They are not a manageable threat..."
Every showrunner is going to have a different approach to material, and we may see a fourth season that more closely resembles Frank Darabont's work on Season 1. Gale Anne Hurd mentioned that Gimple's previous character-driven work should give us an idea of his Season 4 approach:
"He's very character-driven; he wrote the episode where Sofia comes out of the barn, he wrote [the Season 3 episode] 'Clear,' so you get his voice."
To read more from the interview, visit CBR. Catch up on our recent coverage of The Walking Dead Seasons 3 and 4 by visiting the links below:
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