"Terminator" and "Aliens" producer Gale A Hurd introduces "Fear the Walking Dead" in London.
Rich Trenholm/CNETOn the edge of your seat with the cliff-hanger ending of "The Walking Dead"?
"I promise you'll be out of your misery very soon", says producer Gale A Hurd, adding "and so will someone else"!
Without spoiling anything, let's say some viewers were unhappy with the sixth series finale of AMC's zombie drama "The Walking Dead". The episode introduced hotly anticipated new villain Negan, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, in deadly fashion.
"I understand the frustration", said Hurd of the cliff-hanger, "but we wanted this moment to be about the introduction of Negan. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is fantastic".
Hurd was speaking in London at a screening of the second series of "Fear the Walking Dead", a spin-off show from "The Walking Dead".
The TV shows adapt the comic book of the same name by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard. In the comic, Negan explodes into the story with a catastrophic impact, and fans in the know were on tenterhooks to see if the show stuck to the comic's dramatic story line.
The second series of spin-off "Fear the Walking Dead" finds the characters all at sea. They take to the ocean to escape the zombie apocalypse. The series was filmed on a special floating set in the 22 million gallon tank built by James Cameron for the film "Titanic".
Discussing the challenges of the two shows, Hurd admitted that writers often had to adapt to the needs of the cast. "A number of our actresses have gotten pregnant", she said, "so we have a number of 'Walking Dead' babies"!
Asked how she would adapt to a real zombie apocalypse, Hurd suggested she would seek out fan favourite and all-round tough guy Daryl Dixon, played by Norman Reeds. "I'd get behind him on his motorbike...but I feel a lot of people have the same idea".
"Fear the Walking Dead" airs on AMC in the US and on BT TV in the UK.
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