The Hollywood Reporter brings us the following from an interview with showrunner Scott Gimple:
THR: How does your approach to showrunning differ from your predecessors?
Gimple: It's my third year now, and I've been able to benefit from the lessons we've learned, and I'm just trying to apply them. Whether it comes to writing, edits, talking with the crew, working on big sequences, I've been lucky to see people do it, both the triumphs and pitfalls. The biggest thing that I know is that it's all about collaboration, and that goes on with all the people in Georgia and all the people in L.A. I'm constantly on the phone with the rest of my executive producers, picking their brains, asking for their help when I need it, and all of us pulling together to get things done.
THR: Darabont's run was nuanced, while Mazzara's was fast-paced. How do you envision your run being described?
Gimple: I'm trying to take a greatest-hits approach and take the best of both those runs and run with it. As far as my own personal stamp, it's more of what we do here already with character-driven stories and really delving into these characters while having some amazing, horrible scares and exciting sequences but all in service to a greater story that builds. A phrase that I've been caught using a bunch is "cumulative storytelling." It's about having everything stack up so it means something. When The Walking Dead has been its best, all that stuff is happening at once: the emotion, action, horror, scares. I'm very proud that I was able to write an episode where a little zombie girl could walk out of a barn after a horrific zombie execution and have people cry. That's one of the proudest things I've ever done.
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