Big comics episode planned
While the series is taking the above remix approach, EP Greg Nicotero previewed that an episode coming up later in the year is "almost verbatim" with one issue of the comic. "It's really fascinating to make those slight departures, introduce new characters and then get to a situation where you take one episode and you really stick to the source material. You'll be surprised about the way the characters lay out."
The new prison community
Nicotero warns that after Rick (Andrew Lincoln) brought back a bus full of Woodbury residents to the prison, not everyone will gel with his group's way of life. "Some people buy it and some people don't subscribe to it and some don't really conform to it," he says. "It allows for some interesting character work." Adds EP Gale Anne Hurd: "The focus really is on characters, the conflicts. It's a larger group now and it's harder. We're integrating a group that when we ended last season was at war and shooting each other." Says co-star Steven Yeun (Glenn): "The community is growing and that mixes with the fact that there's less of a dictatorship than there has been."
Rick will focus on fatherhood first
Producers say the season three finale, where Carl (Chandler Riggs) questioned his father's decision to let the Woodbury survivors into the prison, serves as the jumping-off point for the season. "He's a man that is wrestling with a motor that didn't work last season," Lincoln says. "He's trying to suppress the brutality for the sake of both of his children and trying to be a parent in an apocalypse and trying to return to the man he once was." As part of that push, Rick has realized that the pressure of being the group's leader has taken him away from being a father. "He focuses his energies on something that's completely different but is still helping the people of the community," he added, keeping mum on what his new focus is. Adds EP Dave Alpert: "He's trying to find a way to add value and help and try to find a place for himself inside the community where he can do that without having to be the alpha male making all the decisions.… This is a very different Rick. How long that can last, however, is another question."
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While the series is taking the above remix approach, EP Greg Nicotero previewed that an episode coming up later in the year is "almost verbatim" with one issue of the comic. "It's really fascinating to make those slight departures, introduce new characters and then get to a situation where you take one episode and you really stick to the source material. You'll be surprised about the way the characters lay out."
The new prison community
Nicotero warns that after Rick (Andrew Lincoln) brought back a bus full of Woodbury residents to the prison, not everyone will gel with his group's way of life. "Some people buy it and some people don't subscribe to it and some don't really conform to it," he says. "It allows for some interesting character work." Adds EP Gale Anne Hurd: "The focus really is on characters, the conflicts. It's a larger group now and it's harder. We're integrating a group that when we ended last season was at war and shooting each other." Says co-star Steven Yeun (Glenn): "The community is growing and that mixes with the fact that there's less of a dictatorship than there has been."
Rick will focus on fatherhood first
Producers say the season three finale, where Carl (Chandler Riggs) questioned his father's decision to let the Woodbury survivors into the prison, serves as the jumping-off point for the season. "He's a man that is wrestling with a motor that didn't work last season," Lincoln says. "He's trying to suppress the brutality for the sake of both of his children and trying to be a parent in an apocalypse and trying to return to the man he once was." As part of that push, Rick has realized that the pressure of being the group's leader has taken him away from being a father. "He focuses his energies on something that's completely different but is still helping the people of the community," he added, keeping mum on what his new focus is. Adds EP Dave Alpert: "He's trying to find a way to add value and help and try to find a place for himself inside the community where he can do that without having to be the alpha male making all the decisions.… This is a very different Rick. How long that can last, however, is another question."
Read full article at THR
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