The Walking Dead Season 10: cast and crew on zombies, plot twists, gore and horror
- Writer and producer Angela Kang and long-time cast member Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl Dixon, talk about the zombie franchise
- The new series, which premieres on October 6, promises plenty of plot twists and new threats
On a warm August morning on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia, a few zombies – their clothes tattered, hair matted and teeth yellowed – throw punches at humans. Around them is a high corrugated steel wall; beneath their bare feet, scorched grass and unkempt weeds. A few feet away, director Greg Nicotero yells “cut!”
The Walking Dead, a long-standing TV series with a borderline obsessive following, is shooting its 10th season; the US premiere is on October 6. Fans are waiting to find out what happens after season nine ended with a bloodbath in a blizzard.
“There’s some spectacular stuff I’m excited about people seeing,” says Angela Kang, the series’ producer and writer. “We’re always trying to find ways to show new kinds of environmental threats and different kinds of obstacles in the world.”
The Walking Dead franchise began life in 2003 as a black-and-white graphic novel created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore, set in a world inspired by the zombie films of George Romero, such as Night of the Living Dead.
The Walking Dead kicked off in 2010 with an Atlanta policeman, Rick Grimes (played by Andrew Lincoln), who wakes up after a coma from a gunshot wound to discover that the apocalypse has happened, and the world is overrun by zombies (referred to in the story as ‘walkers’.) In the intervening years, the series has seen a revolving door of characters – so much so, that entire walls in a conference room at one of the production studios is lined with photos of cast members that have been killed off.
