The Walking Dead season 6: more zombies and more interpersonal problems

In The Walking Dead Season 6, Greg Nicotero and his team of makeup artists will again surpass themselves when it comes to the looks of our shuffling friends, the Walkers. In an interview, the master revealed what exactly we can expect scary. Rick, on the other hand, will have a lot to deal with with Morgan and Daryl and Rick are no longer a heart or soul in the coming season. Speaking of Daryl, he and Carol will see the biggest change this season according to Kirkman. You can read below what all this means.

After five seasons of zombie action, during which we've admired the full splendor of Greg Nicotero's creativity, the increasing decay of the undead will be more noticeable than in previous seasons. For the first time in TWD history, digital effects will also be used this season to make the walkers look even scarier and, most importantly, grosser! As the master of special effects in Robert Kirkman's universe, Greg Nicotero himself, admits in an interview with AMC, his goal this year is to let a whole new era of undead walk the parquet with noseless and bellyless walkers. "We've completely changed the whole make-up process this year," said Greg Nicotero, adding, not without pride, "I think we're going to be more walkers in the first three episodes of the new season alone than in the entire last one year to see!» Showrunner Scott M. Gimple had announced early on that the main threat to Rick & Co. this year would by no means be "human". "One thing that's really important to us on the show is that the anatomy stays true to reality as much as possible. So Scott [Gimple] and I have had a long conversation about how to deal with exposed bone, for example. In order for the walkers to be able to move, they definitely need muscles and so we have to be careful that we implement everything as authentically and realistically as possible. »

Greg Nicotero is particularly proud of one major novelty in Season 6: "We're going to be doing some things we've never done before, namely digital enlarging and customizing some walkers. For example, we'll move a few tabs here and there and just add a hole instead. Or we can take the area under the rib cage and shrink it completely." So there's some hot news waiting for us in the coming episodes... But there's also a lot of trouble between people. So Rick and Daryl have been a well-rehearsed team for the last few seasons. In season 6, however, the two men seem to be at odds again. This is how Rick and Daryl meet at a store after a chase. Rick exits his car and slams the door. He goes to Daryl who was riding his motorcycle and pushes him. Daryl doesn't put up with this and yells at Rick - an argument breaks out that ends in a fight between the two, which can finally be ended by the new character Jesus.

The events of recent times have welded the survivors together. This is especially important now that the Wolves are waiting for their chance outside the gates of Alexandria and the situation remains tense inside the walls. In the comics, following the appearance of the first walkers in Alexandria and the murder of Pete, some blatant events take place. The slow takeover of power in Alexandria by Rick in the comics is overshadowed by internal e.g. So how closely will Season 6 follow those storylines from the comics? And what will be the biggest differences between the series and the comics? As Kirkman pointed out, the biggest changes for the coming season will be to characters that don't even appear in the comics! "So we're going to see the biggest changes with Daryl, who never appeared in the comics, and Carol, who's long dead (in the comics) and was never as cool there as she is now in the TV version .»

“We also have Morgan, who is also very different and a lot cooler than his comic counterpart. Since Lennie, who was such a big part of Season 1 and was always in a great mood every time we saw him again, is now finally available to us as the main actor of this series, this will certainly be the series in the coming season totally invigorate. I wouldn't want to claim that the series absolutely needed a new drive, but it just gets a lot better this way." Or in other words, our cookie-baking badass Carol will remain badass Carol or go even more "badass" and fan-favorite Morgan is living up to his status - and Daryl? Of course, he could have had some strokes of fate imposed on him, which otherwise fell to other characters in the comics, but who don't even appear in the series or who have simply "developed" too much from the comics... This could also be the reason for the heightened anticipation from Norman Reedus, who recently described TWD Season 1 as "like Season XNUMX on Viagra"? It remains to be seen...