The Walking Dead Season 6 What’s Next For Rick, The Alexandrians And The Wolves?

The Walking Dead ended season 5 in pure mayhem. Well one of the shows producers just did an interview giving you a peak into Season 6! Scott M. Gimple talked to Entertainment Weekly and dropped a few Walking Dead jems on us, including the fact that we may see things that are referenced as past events in the comic book the show is based. Hit the Jump for the few details!

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The Walking Dead ended in pure mayhem, with Rick dropping a dead walker that he killed at the feet of the Alexandrian’s, where they were gathering to vote on whether to kick him out of the community. He then shot the abusive husband of his crush Jessie, right in the face! All while his crew including his lost friend Morgan watched in shock, that was it, the end of season 5. So, Now the question what happens next?

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So we ended last season with Rick seeming to take control in Alexandria. Will that extend into season 6?
SCOTT M. GIMPLE: Last season was this very strange quote-unquote “happy ending.” As I was working on the finale, it was just very interesting to me that the stakes weren’t that Rick was going to be kicked out, but oh, is Rick going to have to kill a lot of people? The onus was completely on him, but in the end he found a way, and providence found a way, that he could demonstrate to these people what they need to do and who he really is. And now that he’s done that, he seems to be in a terrific position to bring these people around to his way of thinking, and have it not be based in antagonism. But I will say, the world often gets in the way of Rick’s plans.

What else can you say about season 6?
I’ll say this: I think there’s a really cool aspect to the first half of the season that serves almost as a prequel to some direct comic stuff in the second half of the season. I think there’s a way that Robert did some of the story that we’re reaching that had a real past to it, where people are referring to some things in the past in the comic. And we’re able to portray some of that backstory in some ways that you didn’t get to see in the comic.

On The Wolves

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How prominent a role are the Wolves going to play in season 6?
SCOTT M. GIMPLE: Is it season 6, season 7, season 8? I’ll tell you, I don’t know if I’d be as completely direct as to have the first thing we do when we pick up season 6, is to jump into anything with the Wolves. I wouldn’t probably do that. I don’t think we would do that.

Are you saying this could be a longer play than the Terminus situation?
I think there’s some parallels to the Terminus situation. I hope, whatever happens with them, I hope people aren’t expecting it.

I have no idea what that even means.
Every storyteller would want to say that! “Well, I hope they’re not expecting the story.” I think we just hit new depths of ambiguity.

Well, I have to imagine that we’re going to start to get more clarity and more answers on this group. They’ve seen the photos of the place, we know what they’re capable of, and I have to assume that’s going to be continuing going into season 6.
It’s hard to explain. The thread will not be dropped, but there’s, like, spoilers on top of spoilers there. It plays a big part in the season, but maybe not in the way that people would expect. Which is weird. What I’m trying to say, is that one of them marries, officially, Glen and Maggie. Actually, just a group of Justice of the Peaces. That’s all they want to do is just marry people. It’s a really weird thing.

Should we assume, then, that there are some other threats in season 6 in addition to the Wolves?
There are multiple threats, even in the first half of the season. And sort of different versions of threats we’ve seen before. The first three episodes are quite intense, and the cast and crew are — we just shot them out of a cannon directly into another cannon that we shot them out of again. The first three episodes are — we say every year, “Ah, it’s so crazy” and everything, and it has been crazy — but the first three episodes this year and the things that we’re doing are very big and very difficult, and we’re pushing people hard, and in some ways I think we’re going to be pushing the audience hard. I’m pretty excited and terrified about it.

Source||EW