The Walking Dead - Interview with Darabont & Nicotero at Comic-Con

Just three days before the internet was rocked by his untimely departure from "The Walking Dead", showrunner Frank Darabont sat down with a roundtable of journalists at San Diego Comic-Con and made no indication that anything was amiss. In fact, it all seemed like business as usual as the acclaimed filmmaker excitedly talked up Season 2 and his continued geek love for the genre.

In one of his final official interviews on the subject, Darabont – accompanied by KNB’s Greg Nicotero – dropped a few hints on the upcoming season and the challenges of putting together one of the best shows on TV. Where it all goes from here is anyone’s guess.

Q: How much involvement did you have in the upcoming Blu-Ray special edition re-release with the black-and-white version of the pilot?
FRANK DARABONT: It was my idea, my suggestion. I approved the re-timing of the thing. I was in the telecine bay with Dan, our color timer. I don’t know if "The Walking Dead" needs that necessarily, but it certainly worked out well on The Mist. I thought, “Why not? Let’s do this little experiment.” It’s certainly a worthy addition on a DVD set and gives it that much more of a Night of the Living Dead feel.

Q: I saw in the trailer the characters were running through a cemetery. Can you talk about that a little?
FD: There was no conscious connection with Night of the Living Dead at all, although it’s a cool parallel now that you mention it. They’re searching for something in Episodes 2 and 3, and they come upon this little rural church which happened to have this fantastic cemetery attached to it. On the location scout we were looking at these little churches and we found this one, and it was like “Oh my God! Look at this little graveyard here! It’s visually fantastic!” That’s really the only reason we picked it.

Source: Full interview @ Dread Central