The latest scriptedWalking Deadseries is almost upon us with the debutof The Walking Dead: World Beyondon Oct. 4.
MATT NEGRETE:We were in the final countdown, the final weeks before it was going to air.
And suddenly, I got food insecure.
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I was just like:Are other restaurants going to close down?
All the grocery stores?
Am I going to be able to get broccoli?And so that was happening.
And then slowly but surely I was realizing,I wonder if we’re going to air.
And it was just in the back of my head as everything else was happening.
So, we’re excited.
Yeah, I don’t know why I pulled broccoli out.
I don’t know, funny word.
It’s good to say broccoli.
So whats this show about?
It just seemed like it couldn’t go wrong.
It’s not like they don’t know how the dead work or how to kill.
They do know how to kill them.
And they’ve had these safety trainings back at the university where they’re from.
So its an opportunity for everything to be brand new.
And that’s what’s so exciting to me about the show.
You all announced that this is going to be a two-season series.
However, you know your end date.
It’s just a different format for us.
The thing aboutWorld Beyond, it was always about how can we make this feel different?
How can we support expectations in a lot of ways?
And one of those is not having it necessarily be open-ended.
So I think for all of us, we feel like we could write these characters forever.
It’s not like, Oh, we’ll see what happens in season 6, or whatever.
We’re going to go two seasons.
It’s going to be 20 episodes total.
It’s challenging, because there’s a lot we need to fit in those 20 episodes.
But, at the same time, it’s great to approach it knowing what you’re working towards.
We’re closing in right now with the writers on the last few episodes.
So we’re getting down to the wire.
I hope people dig it.
How early on did you figure out the ending?
But in terms of the characters, we had a pretty good idea of by rooting story and character.
We had a pretty good idea of where we wanted these characters to end up emotionally.
So tracking that emotional journey was fairly easy.
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