'Walking Dead' producers tease season three premiere
Published Apr 14 2012, 20:07 BST | By Emma Dibdin
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Speaking at a TV Academy panel in Los Angeles, Mazzara confirmed that he had just finished work on the script for the episode and dropped a few hints about its content, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Mazzara said: "It's pretty dynamic and action-packed with tons of zombies, but also a lot of quieter moments and a lot of heart.
"This is a group of survivors, a family that has come together and they have no good options, no place to go and they're really trying to keep themselves alive, and keep each other alive.
"You can see how desperate they are; they're clinging to each other. It's those moment of human interaction and heart that are important."
Kirkman implied that the season would be a good one for fans of the original comic series, saying: "For comic fans, they know the good stuff is coming. The really intense stuff with Michonne, the Governor and Woodbury [prison] really defined the comic book series and we haven't even gotten to that stuff yet.
"Now that we're getting to that stuff in season three, it's really going to change the show quite a bit."
Kirkman went on to get slightly more specific, teasing that a memorable moment from the comic book series will feature in the premiere, but that it will involve a different character than the comic's version.
He teased: "There will be cases where something memorable... will be displaced and given to somebody else.
"I'll hint that that actually happens in our first episode back in season three - something memorable that happened to a character in the comic is happening in the show in our first episode back, and it's not the same character."
The show's third season will be set in the town of Woodbury, it has been confirmed.
Lauren Cohan will become a series regular for the third season.
The Walking Dead will return to AMC later this year, and airs on FX in the UK.
Watch a trailer for the upcoming video game based on the series below:
yeah I think its the leg chopping off of dale, after he got bit. That was pretty early in the prison issues I think. I'm glad theyre not going to chop off ricks hand. Always hated that.
May 4th 2012 at 11:28pm
I love fear the hunters I really hope we get that in season 3
May 1st 2012 at 9:14am
*****Spoilers****
It might not be what they're talking about, but I reckon that Beth Green (played by Emily Kinney) will be killed off at some point in the third series. Hershel, in the comics, had two twin-daughters. They made it to the prison with Hershel and Maggie and were brutally murdered by an inmate there.Maggie, then wanting revenge, murdered the inmate. Since his twin-daughters weren't included in the TV adaptation (the same way Beth wasn't included in the comic-book version) I think they'll change it to Beth being brutally murdered instead of them. However, I don't think this is what they're referring to that will happen in the first episode. Since, I'm sure they will have to get to the Prison and find out there's other survivors there first.
April 18th 2012 at 1:59pm
I think T-dog will get locked in the Prison Gym...
April 17th 2012 at 10:10am
As he says on there, That could be given to someone else further down the line? Hershal maybes?
April 16th 2012 at 5:18pm