{"id":408113,"date":"2022-02-21T06:04:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T03:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-walking-dead-showrunner-breaks-down-explosive-11b-premiere\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T06:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T03:04:51","slug":"the-walking-dead-showrunner-breaks-down-explosive-11b-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-walking-dead-showrunner-breaks-down-explosive-11b-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"#’The Walking Dead’ Showrunner Breaks Down Explosive 11B Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’The Walking Dead’ Showrunner Breaks Down Explosive 11B Premiere<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

[WARNING: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for The Walking Dead<\/em> Season 11, Episode 9, \u201cNo Other Way.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Walking Dead<\/em> is back, and the 11B premiere of AMC\u2019s post-apocalyptic zombie drama was nothing short of explosive. To recap, after firing many fireworks at our favorite survivors\u2019 heads, Maggie (Lauren Cohan) officially ended the war against the Reapers with a slaughter. A lovelorn Daryl (Norman Reedus), Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam), redemption-arc Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and a revenge-seeking Elijah (Okea Eme-Akwari) helped Maggie to obtain the food needed to save the remaining Alexandrians from near-starvation, despite some varying opinions on her little murder spree. Reapers leader and Daryl\u2019s former S.O. Leah (Lynn Collins) escapes.<\/p>\n

Also, we finally learn the fate of the injured Alden (Callan McAuliffe) after many episodes away; and Negan abandons the group, walking off into the woods (more on that below). But the biggest reveal? Daryl removing a Commonwealth helmet from his head in a flash-forward six months into the future.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, we have a ton<\/em> of questions for showrunner Angela Kang who gives us the scoop on when we\u2019ll see Negan next, what\u2019s up in Daryl\u2019s love life, and yes, how deep we\u2019re going into the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n

The fireworks in the opening moments were a great way to start off with a bang! Were there production challenges there? How much was VFX versus practical effects?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Angela Kang:<\/strong> So, it is almost entirely VFX, which is hard to imagine, but practical provided the smoke and atmosphere, and then they did provide practical light effects. They would have on the ground some of the [fireworks] that had landed and would provide almost a sparkler-effect as a reference and so, there was some practical mixed in there. But the [fireworks] whizzing through the air were not actually whizzing through the air until on the back end. There was a lot that had to happ<\/a>en in that scene simultaneously, so the production team definitely had their hands full juggling all the bits and the stunts and the effects into making that scene happen.<\/p>\n

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Josh Stringer\/AMC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When I spoke to Lauren Cohan to preview the episode, she teased the standoff between Maggie and Leah as having \u201cSergio Leone vibes.\u201d What inspired you when shooting those moments? It felt extra cinematic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We definitely wanted that scene to play like a Western. And so, while we didn\u2019t specifically go, \u2018We want it to feel like Sergio Leone,\u2019 that\u2019s obviously just a part of the cinematic language that we were hoping to draw upon, and then I think everybody in the scene did amazing work. In editing, we picked the stuff that really felt very Western, very kind of tense in that quiet way. We wound up actually even cutting pieces of dialogue, but we wanted that very sparse feel. I think it turned out really well.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever cheered so hard for Gabriel when he showed up as the sniper at the end of the stand-off\u2026 but first, he has a tense reunion with Reaper Mancea (Dikran Tulaine), who he had spared earlier this season. Mancea challenges his connection to God quite a bit. Will we see the effects of that conversation play out on Gabe\u2019s psyche going forward?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think with Gabriel this entire season, and even before this season, he\u2019s been grappling with where he\u2019s at with his faith, which I think is a very common experience. Just to wonder, \u2018do I believe the things I\u2019ve always believed?\u2019 So Gabriel definitely continues to grapple with his faith. It\u2019s part of who he is. The next time we deal with it, it may be in an unexpected way, hopefully in a good way. And you know, we\u2019ve just really enjoyed putting Seth in these situations where he\u2019s got to make these really hard, philosophical choices, and we really enjoyed the work that he did with [Tulaine], and we did want to rattle him and make the choice hard. And I think Seth just played it really beautifully, as he does with everything. But we love seeing Father Gabriel get a cheer after he started off the show so hated [Laughs<\/em>].<\/p>\n

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Josh Stringer\/AMC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Absolutely! And another character, Negan, who started off very hated in a pretty different way, leaves the group at the end of this episode. I know that there\u2019s no way Jeffrey Dean Morgan just walked off this show. Will we see Negan again? What can you tease about your plans for Negan?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, this is not any kind of like cliffhanger like, \u2018Will Negan come back?\u2019 Negan\u2019s coming back, 100 percent, but when we pick up his story, it will be in a different context. And so, we\u2019ll get to discover something new about what Negan\u2019s been up to. [Ultimately], he realized that he and Maggie can\u2019t live and be next-door neighbors. He\u2019s always going to be sleeping with one eye open and he doesn\u2019t want that. So, off he goes.<\/p>\n

Why was it important for Maggie to find Alden\u2019s body after<\/em> dealing with the Reapers? Why hold his possible survival over our heads all season?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We talked a lot about that \u2014 does she just leave him behind in the church and we know that he dies there, or do we hold it? We ultimately decided that from a story standpoint, that Maggie is a person who still holds hope and optimism, even though she\u2019s had to go to some pretty dark places in her recent history. And I think for her, when she\u2019s on mission, she\u2019s always in the back of her mind going, \u2018I know who I\u2019m doing this for. And I know that I\u2019ve got to get back because I made a promise to Alden.\u2019 And she\u2019s holding onto that as something that gives her some hope as she\u2019s going through this very dark experience. And so it\u2019s even more crushing at the end of it that she\u2019s lost even one more person along the way.<\/p>\n

I think it would\u2019ve been a real comfort to her to have him to go back to. Instead, the reality is that he was too injured, and it\u2019s a much more visceral reminder that this mission, it was a win and a loss in so many ways for her. It\u2019s knocked her down to a really low point as we head into this next group of episodes.<\/p>\n

\"LaurenCohan-WalkingDead\"<\/p>\n

Josh Stringer\/AMC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And then for Daryl, first, it was so heartbreaking to watch him let Leah go, but then he sees Connie again. Is 11B going to finally be the season of Daryl\u2019s happiness? Possibly? At least in that<\/em> regard?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think that with Daryl, you know, the relationship with Leah is really complicated. We always wanted to explore when people are thrown together in grief. And Daryl, in particular, [as someone] who struggles with intimacy and with trust, he clung to somebody who seemed like a really sweet person and who also was searching for someone. But, take them out of that context and suddenly what\u2019s actually really most important to them becomes very, very clear and it puts them at odds. So, there is this tragic element to it, but it\u2019s also because Daryl\u2019s trying to grapple with, \u2018Is this the right way to make our way through the world anymore? Are we destined to just repeat this cycle of violence, or is there something on the other side of it?\u2019And I think that\u2019s really what he\u2019s grappling with as he is letting Leah go.<\/p>\n

And with Connie, he didn\u2019t know if she was alive, and so they get to have the reunion and it was actually really fun to watch the footage because this is [an example of how] the actors can really make a big difference in how something comes out. [Reedus] happened to be carrying the basket of apples, and this is not scripted, he just drops it and runs to her! But I think it really captures how happy Daryl is that she actually made it out, because he felt so much torment about it. They\u2019ll have lots of scenes to come.<\/p>\n

Obviously, the biggest reveal of the episode, is Daryl taking off that Commonwealth helmet. How deep into the Commonwealth are we going in the episodes ahead and what are you excited for fans to see in this new world?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to delve pretty deep into the Commonwealth and we\u2019re going to learn a lot about what makes the place tick and how our people are navigating that. This is a society that\u2019s unlike anything they\u2019ve encountered before. It\u2019s the biggest, by far. It is the most organized, the most regimented and the most like what the world was, for better and for worse.<\/p>\n

One of the things that the Commonwealth really gets into is this theme of social<\/a> class. What happens when you are put back into a society that is very openly stratified, where they\u2019re judged in ways they haven\u2019t been in the apocalypse because the value system has been different? A lot of our characters are just bumping up against things that they thought they didn\u2019t ever have to worry about again and that puts them in some pretty fraught situations.<\/p>\n

The Walking Dead<\/em>, Sundays, 9\/8c, AMC (episodes release one week early on AMC+)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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