The Walking Dead: World Beyond showrunner says season 2 is about the future
Showrunner Matt Negrete talks future storytelling The Walking Dead: World Beyond
Now that the first season of The Walking Dead: World Beyond has come to an end, fans are looking ahead to season 2. Undead Walking had a chance to speak with showrunner Matt Negrete about the next season and how the show will be more focused on the future than the past.
One of the most compelling aspects of World Beyond’s first season was the look back at the beginning of the apocalypse through the use of flashbacks. We wanted to know whether or not flashbacks would continue in the second season.
Season 2, Negrete said, is all about “forward thinking.” Most of the flashbacks are done because they were needed in season 1 to move the story forward, so there will be “fewer flashbacks in season 2 because there will be more ensemble stories focused on the group, told across multiple storylines.”
Negrete noted that season 2 will take place in the present with a focus on “how to get to the future.” That future means many things, from the future of the characters, the future of the show and the future of the TWD franchise, as many fans have been hoping to learn more about the fate of Rick Grimes through World Beyond’s mythology.
Naturally, telling these stories will be challenging given that everyone is split up at the end of the first season. Felix and Iris have reunited with Will, Silas gave himself up to CRM, Elton and Percy are trying to find the rest of the group and Hope and Huck are going back to CRM headquarters with Elizabeth.
We’ve seen stories told while the main characters are separated in the TWD Universe before. After the prison fell on The Walking Dead the characters were scattered all over the place, while season 6 of Fear the Walking Dead is presently sorting out what happens when everyone is split up and working to get back together.
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The biggest challenge facing World Beyond is how it will be able to bring all of these stories together in only ten episodes. The show was always destined to feature two seasons with 10 episodes each, but given the chaos of the pandemic and how many things have changed, we can always hope that endings can lead to new beginnings for these characters.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond will return in 2021.