The Walking Dead Creator Robert Kirkman Knows When Characters Will Die

Fans of The Walking Dead know that almost every character is at risk of death in every episode, as the show is not shy about killing main characters at any time. Robert Kirkman, the creator of the comics on which the show is based, revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly Radio that he knows when everyone on the show is going to die.

The interviewers asked Kirkman how tough it is to say goodbye to someone killed off the show, and the creator revealed an even harsher truth.  "It's kinda worse than that, because I got a pretty good idea when all of them are dying," he said. "To a certain extent, if we follow the comic, like possibly even more than [showrunner] Scott [Gimple] knows."

Kirkman then pointed at imaginary people around the room. "So I'm always like, 'Two years, three years, six months, two weeks, oh, God this is awful!'" It's really rough," he said. "Doing the comic, it was fine because it was just lines on a paper. Whatever. We're killing that guy. Cool. But the show, it sucks because we all work together, we hang out, and have a great time. But, you know, the story's gotta get done and people gots to die, as I like to say. It's pretty rough."

To make matters worse, Kirkman and Gimple cannot tell the actors when their characters are going to die because plans could change at any moment. "You can't tell 'em," he said. "Because we change our minds all the time. And that's the other really bad thing about it. We can't really give them that much warning because there's always a chance that we'll get into actually writing the scripts after we plan things out and we're like, 'Nope, that character's living.' Which has happened many times. So we don't want to have many false news giving situations."

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