Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang posts BTS flashback photo
By Renee Hansen
As The Walking Dead gets set to release the eleventh and final season of the series, the fandom is looking back and remembering the greatness that is The Walking Dead. For a Friday flashback, showrunner Angela Kang posted a BTS look at an iconic character.
The photo is a repost from Director of Photography Duane Charles Manwiller, who every TWD fan should be following. It features fan-favorite Michonne (Danai Gurira) with her pet walkers as director Sharat Raju lines up the shot. The photo is an inside look into the creation of the pets who are missing limbs and jaws. The blue they are wearing will allow VFX to be worked on during post-production.
This photo is from Gurira’s final episode of the series, making it an even more amazing photo.
Angela Kang, The Walking Dead season 11
Angela Kang took over as showrunner in season nine of The Walking Dead. She had been involved with the series since season 2 as a writer and has written or co-written 29 episodes so far. She has written amazing episodes, including “I Ain’t a Judas,” “A,” “Coda,” and “Four Walls and a Roof.”
When it was first announced that season 11 would be the final for the long-running series, it was also announced that Kang and Scott M. Gimple would be creating a spin-off series that will feature Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride). This news softened the blow for fans of those characters, but the rest of the fandom was shocked and saddened.
On August 22 on AMC, the first episode of the mega season 11 will air, available a week earlier if you subscribe to AMC+. Fans are excited to see what the next season will bring, but the reality that the series is coming to an end has also hit home.
Kang has promised that this final season will be reminiscent of early seasons, and things will get back to the scope and scale fans are accustom to. Many fans were disappointed with the season 10c episodes and concerned that this would be the new vein of the series. These 6 bonus episodes were filmed during a pandemic requiring that filming be scaled back and more intimate, focusing on a small group or one character.
In an interview with Deadline, Kang had this to say about season 11
"I’ll say, we’re kind of back to some of our usual scope and scale in Season 11, obviously with some modification still going on because we’re filming during the pandemic still. But, it’s a big, big season but you know it will air in these blocks. Actually, in some ways each block has a big arc. At the same time, there’s still an ongoing arc that’s carrying across all 24."
It sounds like this season is going to be something worth watching and will end the series amazingly.
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Kang was given the 2021 Etheria Inspiration Award at The Etheria Festival, and the award was presented to her by Walking Dead producer Gale Anne Hurd.
The Walking Dead will return with its eleventh and final season on AMC on August 22. The season premiere episode will be available to stream on AMC+ on August 15.