The main selling point of the upcoming ninth season of “The Walking Dead” is that it’s the final season for Rick Grimes, as star Andrew Lincoln is departing the series at some point during the season. We can’t wait to see how Grimes is written out of the show, and we can’t help but wonder if he’ll simply be leaving the group or getting definitively killed off.
While we wait, new key art for Season 9 has been revealed today, and Rick is front and center, bathed in an ominous shade of red. Behind him, both zombies and fellow survivors…
“We’re really looking at the start of a new chapter of the show,” new showrunner Angela Kang recently detailed, speaking about the season’s 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.
