Robert Kirkman is the focus of AMC's latest "Dispatches From the Set" Q&A for The Walking Dead Season 4. In this feature, Robert Kirkman talks about the episodes he's written for the new season and his favorite moment from Season 3:
via AMC- "Q: Which episodes are you writing this season?
A: I’ve written Episode 3… I’m also writing Episode 9. Episode 9 will probably be the episode that’s closest to a direct adaptation from the comic book aside from the premiere episode. It’s been a lot of fun for me working on them because I’m basically just rewriting something I’ve already written, which means I get to go back in and go, “Woah, what’d you do there? Let’s fix that.”
Q: How has working on the show affected the way you write the comic, if at all?
A: One of my hugest efforts in this entire ordeal is to make sure that the show doesn’t change how I do the comic… I want to keep the comic pure. I don’t want anybody to say, “Oh, well the comic was really good and then the show came along, and then the comic got different,” because I want to maintain that consistency. But I will say that working in the writers’ room with all the other writers and working on the show as long as I have, I feel like I’m maybe a little bit better of a writer, I hope… I’m having a lot of very cool and interesting experiences on the show… and I feel like I’m able to put that to work in the comic that makes it better than it ever would have been otherwise.
Q: How would you compare Season 3 to Season 4? How are they going to be different?
A: I can argue that this season has a higher level of optimism than the show has had thus far, so that gives me something to look forward to. And also I’ll say that when you get to Season 4 on a show, especially a show like The Walking Dead, you realize that you’ve been around for a while and people may start to think, “I’ve got this show figured out. I know how they do things on this show.” And a tremendous amount of effort has been put towards keeping the audience guessing and doing newer and more interesting things and changing what The Walking Dead is, in a way that’s very true to everything that people love about The Walking Dead but that brings in a lot of very cool new and unexpected elements.
Q: What was your favorite moment from Season 3?
A: I really loved the return of Morgan [Jones], and just that exchange between Rick and Morgan and how it stripped the show down to these two men. And it called back to the first episode of the series, which to me was kind of a hallmark for the show, because those two men in that room are absolutely 100% completely different than the two men having a discussion in the first episode. And that really was a singular moment where you can see what this show is about… and really see the effect that this world has had on these two characters. I think it was a pretty great one.
Q: Have you changed your mind at all about not wanting to direct an episode?
A: No, not at all. I just watched Dan Sackheim direct Episode 3 [of Season 4], and watching all the work that he’s doing, I’m like, “Yup, nope, nope, that doesn’t interest me.” I’ll continue writing. That stuff’s fun."
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“In the highly anticipated new season, we find Rick and the group fostering a thriving community in the safe haven of the prison. Sadly, in this brutal world, happiness is short-lived and walkers and outside threats are no match for danger brewing inside the fences. The group’s home and new way of life will be thoroughly tested, and their struggle to survive has never been so perilous. Season 4 also introduces several new characters including Bob Stookey (Lawrence Gilliard Jr., “The Wire”).”
The 16-episode fourth season is once again filming in Georgia, with the first episode airing on October 13th.
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