The Walking Dead Season 7 Will Start Very Dark But Expand

It's time to put the cliffhanger that is The Walking Dead's sixth season behind us and start [...]

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It's time to put the cliffhanger that is The Walking Dead's sixth season behind us and start looking forward to its seventh.

During an interview with showrunner Scott Gimple, we did just that.

The Walking Dead is a show which likes to reinvent itself every half season. Negan's introduction on last night's season six finale marked the end of another eight episode arc, so that means when the show returns in October, we can expect some changes.

"The world opened up this half season and opened up to some dark places," says Gimple. "In the next half season, the world is gonna open up even more and we are going to have a wide variety of locales and a wide variety of tone and of character. I'm very excited for all of the different stories that are going to be told. There will be a lot of different stories told."

With all of the new characters introduced in the back half of season six and more to come when we head back to the apocalypse in the fall, there will be a lot of stories to tell.

"There's going to be the biggest variety of stories we've had yet," Gimple explains. "Things are, of course, I can say without spoiling anything - things are going to start off very, very, very dark because everybody knows where we're starting. But that won't be the whole season. It's not going to be darkness upon darkness upon darkness. I'm very excited for all of the individual characters' journeys except for the way we start which will be awful."

That start Gimple is referring to is the latter, more brutal half of the season finale's closing moments.

The Walking Dead will return for its seventh season in October. Expect a trailer to spawn out of San Diego Comic Con in July.

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