'The Walking Dead' Season 4 Spoilers: Secondary Characters Step Up and Rick Grimes' 'Shocking' Moment
"The Walking Dead" Season 4 will arrive this Sunday on AMC to fill the vacancy of everyone's beloved "Breaking Bad," and now a few hints to the new episodes have been revealed.
Gale Anne Hurd, executive producer of the series, spoke to MTV about changes to the show, such as upgrading writer Scott Gimple to the man who runs the show.
"He wrote many of our favorite episodes. What's great about Scott is that he combines the ability to write great, almost intimate character moments within larger epic tableaus," said Hurd. "There's a sense of completion in his episodes."
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Also revealed is that secondary characters such as Beth, Carol, and Tyreese will be stepping up in a major way to as main characters.
"Rick really wants to focus his efforts on being what he hasn't been so far, which is a really good father to Carl, and now to his baby Judith," she said. "That means everything else takes a back seat ... At least as far as when times are rather calm."
According to MTV, the first two episodes are action packed and really do a great job of establishing what season four is about.
"You really want to give fans an indication of what the season is going to hold in the very first episode. We wanted to deliver on the more intimate character moments, as well as the epic action pieces that you're going to be seeing throughout the season. Also, for the first episode, we're able to shoot for nine days, versus the typical eight, which is why we were able to accommodate what is certainly one of the larger action set-pieces of the entire series," said Hurd.
In a recent interview with E! Online, Andrew Lincoln, who plays lead character Rick Grimes, said he had his craziest moment on the set of the first episode.
"It was one of the most shocking things I've had to do on screen," he told E! Online, joking around. "I laughed. Rick Grimes laughed."
The new season premieres this Sunday, Oct. 13 at 9 p.m. EST on AMC.
