DARYL DIXON Showrunner on the future of the franchise, which could reunite old friends – GeekTyrant

Season 2 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon wrapped last weekend, and it gave fans a future with Daryl and Carol to look forward to as they forge a new path.

It was great to see them reunite again, and we’re not done with them yet. After a tense finale, they want to head to another European city, even though they know where they’re filming season 3 and it sounds like they’re in for a detour.

So what’s in store for the couple? Showrunner and executive producer David Zabel spoke about the end of the season, but also about the future of the show, which is telling The Hollywood Reporter:

“We loved the new impetus we experienced when we went to France, and we wanted to continue doing that. On a story level, the characters are not allowed to relax. It should be a roadshow.

“They have to keep moving (to return home). At the end of season two, they’re going somewhere. We don’t know precisely true, and it’s not a direct line to the next place they go. But the idea is to have the characters struggle and strive to get home and get moving.

He continued: “On another level we can bring in a whole different culture and history and taste and color and light and architecture. That’s going to be so exciting for reinventing the show.

“It felt like all signs were pointing to us continuing on and getting to the next place. It could be a different place in seasons five and six. They keep moving until they get home!’

Another country past Spain? What’s the next step on Daryl and Carol’s survival journey, a trip to Italy? Zabel said:

“I can’t tell you, but I Doing have a plan. I talked to Norman about it. There’s a really cool plan. But we don’t even know yet if we’ll make season four yet…’

Additionally, future plans surrounding Daryl and Carol could come down to a wildcard factor Daryl Dixon team hands, the whims of the bigger ones Walking dead franchise. Zabel explained:

“I’ve had quite a free hand. I talk to (franchise chief creative officer Scott M. Gimple) all the time and he says, ‘You have a free hand, at least for now. Keep doing what you’re doing.’

“But at some point I can imagine that some things are determined by what other characters are doing and where they are. So I don’t know if Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) will get on a raft on the Hudson and end up (in Europe).

Could that mean we might even see Rick (Andrew Lincoln) return to reunite with Daryl?? That would be epic!

Whatever the future brings, as long as The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon continues, it will depend on the future relationship between Daryl and Carol. Zabel says:

‘There is so much they haven’t seen and experienced yet. They’re both characters who are (landlocked Americans), and in that sense, they’re in a way these classic Americans who never got to travel the world.

“They both had reasons to stay close to home. That was part of what I found exciting from the beginning: taking those characters and exposing them to things that they may have once seen in a book, or maybe seen a photo of, and now they’re in the middle of it.

He continues: “From an audience perspective, it’s an opportunity to see what the apocalypse is like in these other parts of the world, and so hopefully the audience will experience the same as these characters.

“It’s like, ‘Wow, I’ve only seen the Eiffel Tower in pictures, and now I’m standing next to it… and there are walkers standing next to it too.'”

It was really cool to see the series continue in a new country with these characters that we have known and loved since the beginning. You can watch the first two seasons of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon on AMC+.