NOTE: Spoilers for both TV and comics
With just two episodes to go before the season six finale on The Walking Dead, AMC and the series have left viewers chomping at the bit, trying to discover just what Negan in the television universe will have planned when he enters into the fray.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan / Credit: Ian Smith London Flickr
Though viewers have been told about vicious group The Saviors, the arrival and emergence of the leader of that group, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is something they're going to have to wait a little longer for, as he won't be showing his face until the season's final episode.
Now, speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Walking Dead showrunner Scott M. Gimple said: "Let me put it this way: Whatever it is, it's really just all in service to being faithful to the comic book inasmuch as one can. That's always going to be relatively subjective as to what that means. But taking inspiration from the moments of the comic book and playing them out to the ends of what it can be, it's all just like taking that moment from the book and figuring out a way to turn it up to get those feelings that it gave you and those emotions that it gave you that much more.
"Sometimes we have things from the book that people who read the comics maybe see coming a mile away, and we try to adjust that so that we can give them the same feeling they had when reading the book, which might have been shock or surprise or fear, any of those things. It might be wildly different, but it's all to get the same sort of feelings that you got when you read them. So will it be different? Absolutely. Will it be the same thing? Absolutely."
In the comic book world, when Negan first introduces himself to Rick Grimes' group he takes revenge on them for the deaths his group of Saviors have endured.
Picking up his barbed-wire wrapped baseball bat which he calls Lucille, he randomly picks Glenn from the group to die, caving in the characters skull in one of the comics' most violent and emotional scenes. Whether that scene will play out exactly on the small screen as readers saw it play out is yet to be determined.
The Walking Dead continues Sundays in the US on AMC and airs the day after on Mondays on FOX in the UK.
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