The Walking Dead is one of the most successful television series in modern history, with television network AMC continuing to bring episodes to viewers in the United States.
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Creator behind the TV series and the comic books on which they're based, Robert Kirkman, has now revealed that he's keeping the television studios completely in the dark when it comes to how he's planning to eventually end the show.
Speaking to EW in a new interview, Kirkman explained: "I know what the end point is, and at the end of the day, I want this entire long narrative to be a complete story with a beginning, middle, and end. We're just spending a lot of time in the middle, so, I kind of have to know what that direction is, and I have to know what that end point is to be able to keep building towards it.
"They have no approval over what happens in the comic. Scott Gimple is an avid reader of the comic, and prefers to experience the comic book as a reader, so he gets the advance issues as they're published, but he doesn't read scripts. He gets mad at me if I give him any kind of indication as to what's coming, because he doesn't like spoilers. So, they're kind of a hundred per cent in the dark, which I guess is pretty remarkable, and I would probably say it's a testament to the trust that AMC has in me. I mean, I guess to a certain extent, at this point, the comic book is kind of a workshop of future seasons of the show, and it's fun to think that I can just completely torpedo the story if I wanted to."
The Walking Dead season 7 continues Sundays in the US on AMC and Mondays in the UK on FOX.
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