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The Walking Dead Director Talks About Season 10 Finale
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In an interview with Fandom, The Walking Dead season 10 finale director Greg Nicotero discussed the finale, noting that it’s one of his favorite episodes of the season.
“It’s one of my favorite episodes of the season,” he said. “It tees us up so well for Season 11 that it’s a little agonizing for me to not be able to talk about it. The last two minutes of the finale are gonna just… people’s jaws are gonna drop.”
He also said that the finale will pick up right where the last episode left off, with Beta and his horde of zombies closing in on our heroes.
““Our group is now having to deal with this giant, massive [horde]… thousands of zombies surrounding where they’re safe,” he said. “There’s a lot of character storylines [where] you get little bits of information here and here, but you want to end that chapter and then start the next chapter in the finale. So we address lots of stuff with Daryl, Negan, Beta, Carol… There’s always that challenge of pushing the visuals and pushing the story and pushing the emotion.”
He also discussed the return of Lauren Cohan as Maggie. She’ll have a role in the finale and be a regular again in season 11 after leaving the show in the ninth season.
“[Lauren] and I went back to Season 2 together,” he said. “I had worked with her a lot. I think we were both had this nervous excitement about getting a chance to film again. After we had shot the first scene, it was like no time had passed. You found out, at the beginning of Season 10, that there were letters being written back and forth between Maggie and Carol, and the different communities,” he continued. “When Maggie reads one of these letters, and realizes what has been happening to her friends and their community, that sort of activates her.”
The season was originally scheduled to wrap up in April but got delayed after AMC announced that they would be unable to complete post-production on the season finale in time to air due to the ongoing pandemic. AMC has teased that the finale will air as a “special episode” later this year. No date has been announced yet.
