The End of an Era: TWD's Final Episode Gets Extended Runtime
With AMC's The Walking Dead series approaching its grand finale, fans wonder what it will be like.
While the ending is kept a secret, the showrunners have already teased that the final episode will get an extended runtime. Instead of usual 60 minutes the finale's showdown will be 1.5 times longer, that is 90 minutes.
AMC's Walking Dead Universe chief content officer Scott Gimple told Deadline that the ending of the show is in many ways devastating.
"Really this episode is all about the final intensities, the final emotional business. The final obstacles that might swallow up our people," Gimple said adding that "The eight at the end of this episode are as deeply in the soup as they've been in a very, very difficult and different situation but in some ways literal," he added.
Gimple also revealed that "with those echoes of the past and the current devastating situation that they're in" the question is how the characters will "stand in solidarity or get taken down together."
"That is setting up this conclusion for The Walking Dead, which in true Walking Dead style is in many ways devastating," the content chief added.
He also said his goal just like exec producer Angela Kang's goal for The Walking Dead was to give audience a sense of completion and a satisfying ending to the story.
In the same interview Angela Kang opened up on the show's finale without dropping any spoilers.
"It is going to have all the fun Walking Dead stuff. So, there's horror, scares, action and adventure, but also lots of heart, tears," she teased. Kang is pretty sure that these are ingredients, which the TWD audience has had fun watching for a long time and she hopes "they'll enjoy the ride in the finale." The end of the show will definitely bring surprises.
She praised the incredible acting by the TWD cast, saying that the finale will feature some of the best work that some of actors have done on the AMC series.
Previously the main actors also shared their feelings about TWD's final scenes. According to Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon) and Josh McDermitt (Eugene Potter), the finale will be emotional and will definitely satisfy the series' most devoted fans.
Both showrunners had a lot to say about The Walking Dead spinoffs as well, which they say are different stories featuring characters the fans love so much. They spinoffs follow different themes and happen in different locations but the key thing every fan should understand is that these movies just "aren't that continuing story."
The final episode will not stream early on AMC+ so we will have to wait until the AMC premiere at 6:00 pm PT/9:00 pm ET to bid our farewell to the show which spanned over 12 years and has 11 seasons and 177 episodes in total.