The Walking Dead Season 7 To Introduce All New Worlds

While Season 6 of The Walking Dead ended on an impactful cliffhanger, according to Executive Producer Greg Nicotero there was a reason they planned it that way.

It was partly so they could pick up with some steam going into season 7, a season that will open Rick and the group's eyes as to what is truly around them outside the walls of Alexandria.

In an interview with IGN, Nicotero said: "It propels our people. It affects our people profoundly, as it does in the comic book. That changes everyone's direction," he said. (Writer's note: Nicotero said the impact of the death will be the same as the comic, but wasn't implying the person who dies is the same.) "The main thing about Season 7 is establishing that the world isn't what everybody thinks it is, the world out there. At the end of Season 6, Rick was so confident. 'We're just going to knock out that outpost, we're going to f--k these guys up before they f--k us up,' and it ends with him going, 'Heh, oh well, I had no idea. What I perceived as the world is not even close to what the reality of the world is,' and Negan's there to show him that."

Nicotero continued, saying: "Season 7 of The Walking Dead, there's all new worlds that we're going to meet, so it wouldn't have made sense to end a chapter and then start it halfway through the next chapter. You want to end in one place and pick it up."

Many assume that part of that new world will be the introduction of The Kingdom, which contains a few fan favorite characters that many have long wanted to see on the show.