“It’s the show I hoped we’d always get to,” says Andrew Lincoln.
At this point, “The Walking Dead” *needs* to become must-watch again, as the series has undoubtedly grown tired and worn out as the years have gone on. Granted, it’s pretty damn hard for any series to feel fresh in its ninth season, but AMC is promising something of a fresh start when the show returns next month.
The team hypes up the season in this new featurette.
In Season 9…
“We meet up with our survivors a year and a half after the war with Negan, and the world they knew is rapidly changing.”
“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.