New Images from “The Walking Dead” Highlight the Year+ Jump in Time

“We’re playing with time, so we get to jump forward in the story,” new “The Walking Dead” showrunner Angela Kang told us a while back, and we recently learned that Season 9 will be talking place a year and a half after the events of Season 8. Today, Deadline shares a new batch of images, noting that they’re all from this coming October’s Season 9 premiere.

“We’re really looking at the start of a new chapter of the show,” Kang recently detailed, speaking about the time jump. “We’ll explore what happened as man made objects and structures break down. Infrastructure like roads and bridges are changing and crumbling. And we’ll also explore what happens as resources are getting low.”

She continued, “There’s a fun Western vibe that has emerged. We are going into a period where a lot of the things that we’ve seen in previous seasons have broken down, so they’ve got these horses and carriages that are being drawn around instead of cars. Things are lit with oil lamps. People are using different kinds of weaponry. There’s a real grittiness to it that I think will be fun and fresh for the viewers.”

“The Walking Dead” will return on October 7.