The Walking Dead Season 5 Spoilers: Robert Kirkman Teases Intense Beginning

The Walking Dead will return for Season 5 in the fall, but fans of the hit AMC show are ready to soak up all the details about the new episodes before they arrive. The cast is back together for filming, which started a week ago, and series creator Robert Kirkman said everyone slipped right back into the routine.

"You feel like you never left," Kirkman told EW.com. "Everyone's happy to be back together, so it's been pretty great and everybody's bringing their A game still, 5 years in. We're doing new and different and crazy and exciting things and now I think the atmosphere is that we can't wait until we can start sharing things with people and start showing things to people because we're really excited about what we're doing here. We think we're making another magical season."

Season 4 ended with the cliffhanger of the survivors trapped in a rail car in the Terminus complex, and Kirkman said the ending necessitated stricter rules as Season 5 filming has begun.

"There's been a lot more secrecy on set," he said. "Just because any images that get out of any kind of things that are seen do in a sense spoil that cliffhanger, so we're trying to keep things a little more tight this time around. There's always people crowding around where we're filming and trying to get spy spots of what we're doing and stuff, but for the most part we've been able to avoid that. This is the first time we've really finished a season and gone back to the same place for the next season, so that's kind of cool."

Season 4 slowed down in its second half, but Kirkman promises Season 5 will come out swinging.

"I think this show works best with a cycle or ramping up and ramping down," he said, "and lulling people into a sense of security and speeding things up and keeping them on guard. I will say that we definitely start this season in an up cycle, whereas last season we definitely started the season in a down cycle. So we're certainly changing things up in that respect and we're gonna kind of hit the ground running this season."

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