New Teaser Video and Details on The Walking Dead Season 4

2013/08/30 18:30:48 +00:00 | Jonathan James

For fans of The Walking Dead comic book series, it's always interesting to see where the TV series stays faithful to the source material and where it goes in new or alternate directions. In a new article, the cast & crew of The Walking Dead provide some details on what's in store for Rick and his group in the upcoming season. We also have a brief teaser video released by AMC.

The following quotes come from The Hollywood Reporter, who rounded up a number of quotes from recent talks with the cast & crew. In particular, we found the following three items the most interesting:

Greg Nicotero talks about their approach to the season split: "With the season again split into two groups of eight episodes each, Nicotero said there will again be a story that essentially concludes in the midseason finale as a second story begins. The path for that story will be set up in the season premiere, which establishes new characters and introduces the mysterious new threat. 'It's really the one episode of the season where there's a little bit of lightheartedness before the shit hits the fan,' he says. 'It doesn't last very long.'"

A different version of The Governor, according to David Morrissey: "'He doesn't carry what happened at the end of season three very lightly. He was a man that recognizes a switch went off in his head and even though he's done terrible things, that ramped him up to somewhere else and he was out of control. That's a very worrying thing for him and that switch takes him into this dark place." While some time has passed between seasons, Morrissey said fans will have to "wait and see" if the Governor's look has changed to be more in line with his comic book counterpart. "It's about how he deals and comes to terms with the man he is and what he's capable of and which side he's going to fall on," the actor said. 'That's the choice he has to make.'"

Scott Gimple comments on adapting the comic book series: "'I'm excited to tell stories in the book that I love,' Gimple said. 'We're catching up to some of those. We're taking the greatest hits approach of all the things I loved that we've done and grabbing from all the different seasons and working it up. There are a lot of characters that are dead on the show that aren't dead in the books. There are a lot of characters on the show that aren't in the book. It's a remixing of a lot of elements from the book in different context; different characters a lot of the time but taking the emotional thrust of those elements and putting them all in a different rhythm. People will see stuff from the comics and they'll know exactly where it came from but it'll be in a different context -- it has to be. You'll also see stories that are totally outside of the comic that have never been seen before. But the basis for those stories are totally from the spirit of the stories told in the comics.'"

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To check out the rest of the feature, head over to The Hollywood Reporter. Also, we've included the brief teaser video below. Over the next six weeks, expect plenty of new content, including photos, videos, exclusive interviews, and contest. Catch up on our recent coverage by visiting the links below:

“A 16 episode season of the series which the The New York Post gave 4 stars, will air in two-parts with the first eight hours kicking off October 13th and returning February 2014 with the final eight episodes. Internationally, “The Walking Dead’ will return to audiences in 120+ FOX International Channels (FIC) markets the week of October 13th, as part of FIC continued commitment to broadcast the series near date-and-date globally. Following “The Walking Dead” will be the season premiere of AMC’s live after show, “Talking Dead,” hosted by Chris Hardwick at 10pm ET/PT. AMC’s “The Walking Dead” is the first original cable series ever to end the broadcast TV season as the number one show in delivery for adults 18-49.”