Why The Walking Dead Is About to Kill off Half Its Cast | Vanity Fair

Why The Walking Dead Is About to Kill off Half Its Cast | Vanity Fair

subscribe TRENDING STORIES January 5, 2016 3:18 pm Why The Walking Dead Is About to Kill Off Half Its Cast by Just after zombies swarmed the gates of Alexandria in Episode 8, The Walking Dead show-runner Scott Gimple promised, "Episode 9 is one of the biggest episodes we've done." "So many people die," comic creator Robert Kirkman laughingly agreed of the upcoming midseason premiere. Now The Walking Dead creative team are famous for dropping morbid hyperbole around all their premieres and finales—every season is bigger than the last—but this time they're not kidding. Here's why. As Dustin Rowles over on Uproxx points out, The Walking Dead is about to introduce a huge crowd of new characters. Not just Jeffrey Dean Morgan's villainous Negan, but also several members of a new location called the Hilltop Colony as well as members of Negan's gang, the Saviors. That's a lot of new faces in the span of just eight episodes. And, if you're like most people,

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