What can we expect from season 2?
In anticipation of the forthcoming Emmy nominations and The Walking Dead season 2, Deadline spoke to Frank Darabont about his hit AMC series.
Darabont used the interview to clarify rumors that he canned all of his season one writers. “Let me just begin by stating the obvious: that it was all pretty overblown. It left the impression that I walked in one day and murdered 12 people. Would you like to know how many writers we were talking about? Two. My thought had been that theyâd under-delivered, and a change was necessary. I had to do too much of it by myself last year, and that was only six episodes. This season, itâs 13 and weâve hired a fantastic writing staff. We hired Glen Mazzara as our Number Two in the room. We consider him our head writer and heâs just a fantastic asset. Weâve also got three other staff writers in Scott Gimple, Evan Reilly from RESCUE ME, and Angela Kang. Plus Executive Producer Robert Kirkman, who wrote the original comic book, is also writing for us.”
He also offered a taste of the mounting drama we’ll see in the forthcoming season.
“Itâs fair to say that the first six episodes were teeing up a lot of conflicts that will be more fully explored in our second season. We find a growing conflict with our two main guys, Rick [Andrew Lincoln] and Shane [Jon Bernthal]. Weâre really excited about putting all of the characters on a chessboard and seeing how wonderfully and effectively we can toss conflict into the game.”
Source: Deadline
