AMC released today the official key art for the second half of “The Walking Dead” season six, which returns Sunday, February 14 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.
“This image gives a look at tiny pieces of a larger world our group is about to discover,” said executive producer and showrunner Scott M. Gimple. “In the new world, they’ll find hope, possibility, tragedy and the terrifying cost of change.”
In addition, EW released the above new image that harks back to the mid-season finale when Rick and co. were “covered in zombie guts and slowly making their way through a herd of flesh-easters.”
“We pick up right in that moment,” says creator Robert Kirkman. “Alexandria is overrun. Rick and the kids are all covered in guts trying to get through the crowd. Everyone is where we last saw them, and things get worse from there.
“It comes back to those plans of rebuilding Alexandria,” Kirkman adds. “Assuming some people survive, and it’s a good bet that some do because they’ve already talked in the midseason finale that they’re not planning on leaving Alexandria. It’s a bump in the road, but there’s something special there, and they can turn this into an anchor that they can build upon. They actually have a chance at surviving long term and building a safe place, not going from safety to safety to safety the way they have for the life of the show. This isn’t the prison, and ‘Oh, we gotta move on from here and find another place.’ This is something different. And from there, there will be other things that expand their world in new and terrifying ways.”
“The Walking Dead” is executive produced by Gimple, Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert, Greg Nicotero and Tom Luse.
