‘The Walking Dead’ creator wanted to kill off Rick early in the show
nme.comThe Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman tried to kill off Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) early in the TV series so audiences would “freak out”.During a panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday (July 22), the comic writer and show producer recalled how he wanted to deviate from the comic source material as much as possible during the early days of The Walking Dead series.“With Walking Dead, I was much younger and much more reckless,” Kirkman said (via Entertainment Weekly). “I was an absolute lunatic.
I would get in the writers’ room and be like, ‘Kill Rick Grimes today! I don’t care! It’ll be funny! People will freak out, and it’ll be fun!’“The writers are like, ‘Robert, you’re crazy.
We can’t do that.’ But any time there were big changes in The Walking Dead, that’s what excited me.”In the TV series, Rick Grimes left in season nine, where he was last seen being taken away in a CRM helicopter.
A spin-off titled The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, which debuts in 2024, will see Lincoln reprise the role alongside Danai Gurira as Michonne.
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