Negan And The Sanctuary's Backstory To Be Revealed In The Walking Dead Season 7

'It's f---ing Negan's world now,' Jeffrey Dean Morgan claims. He's not wrong.When The Walking Dead [...]

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"It's f---ing Negan's world now," Jeffrey Dean Morgan claims. He's not wrong.

When The Walking Dead returns for its seventh season, the series will shift from one which followed the heroic Rick Grimes to one almost centered on the newly introduced and villainous Negan.

"The last six seasons have followed Rick," Morgan says in this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly. "You're going to find out in that time Negan has been running his own show. He has created his army of followers - and some are probably reluctant followers, and i they're reluctant followers he has a way to deal with that as well. We'll find out how Negan has come to be who he is. We're going to get some backstory very quickly on how the Saviors operate and how Negan operates."

One has to wonder if that backstory will include the recent revelations from the Here's Negan comics which have been telling Negan's heartbreaking backstory.

Comic book fans know what the methods of punishing reluctant followers mentioned by Morgan is, with a tease of it being introduced via Dwight's face in The Walking Dead's sixth season. The brutal punishments won't be the only aspect of Negan's world adapted to television in the coming episodes, though. Fans got their first look at his home, the Sanctuary, in the Comic Con trailer but that was merely a glance compared to what's coming.

"It's a pretty epic location," showrunner Scott Gimple says of the Sanctuary. "It really is something else. People will see what they saw in the comic, and then some."

The Walking Dead will return for its seventh season October 23 at 9 PM ET on AMC. For complete coverage, insider info, and more all season long, be sure to follow me on Twitter @BrandonDavisBD and check out The Walking Dead on ComicBook.com on Facebook.

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