{"id":26688,"date":"2012-07-27T12:20:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T11:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=26688"},"modified":"2012-07-27T12:20:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T11:20:34","slug":"the-walking-dead-season-3-is-going-to-shock-some-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-walking-dead-season-3-is-going-to-shock-some-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead Season 3 is &#8220;going to shock some people&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26691\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/michonne-large-270712.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-26691\" title=\"Danai Gurira as Michonne in The Walking Dead Season 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/michonne-large-270712-616x409.jpg\" alt=\"Danai Gurira as Michonne in The Walking Dead Season 3\" width=\"616\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danai Gurira as Michonne in <em>The Walking Dead<\/em> Season 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Talking to\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/news\/tvnews.php?id=93014\">Coming Soon<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0executive producer David Alpert promised that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-walking-dead-season-3-actress-believes-her-character-has-to-die\/\"><em>The Walking Dead<\/em> Season 3<\/a>\u00a0\u201cis going to be non-stop, in your face, intense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the point in the show that I\u2019ve been excited about giving the audience since Season 1,&#8221; continued Alpert. &#8220;The biggest thing I have to say is that, as the storytelling picked up at the end of Season 2, and the speed of events happening \u2013 well, we\u2019re increasing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A pretty risky promise considering the shock fatalities that ramped <em>The Walking Dead<\/em> Season 2 up by severed degrees of jaw-dropping magnitude, but with fan favourite ass-kicker Michonne, played by Danai Gurira, added to the ensemble, we can at least expect more close-quarters zombie-slaying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can say that I\u2019m completely in denial when I see Danai walk out on set and jump off the page,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/kirkman-frank-darabont-leaving-the-walking-dead-was-a-difficult-time-for-the-cast\/\">executive producer and comic-book co-creator Robert Kirkman<\/a>. \u201cAs badass as she is in the comics, seeing her move and seeing her kill the zombies in motion is so much more intense than you can believe. Fans of the comics are going to love it. She\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichonne is on the show and she\u2019s a hot, kick-ass chick with a sword, so you\u2019ve got to love her,&#8221; continued Alpert. &#8220;She\u2019s totally owning the role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And The Governor,&#8221; he teased of the forthcoming antagonist, played by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/doctor-who-series-7-harry-potter-star-david-bradley-reveals-his-role\/\"><em>Doctor Who<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s David Morrissey, &#8220;if you\u2019re familiar with the books, we\u2019re totally going to go there this season.\u00a0We\u2019re going to do some stuff that\u2019s going to shock some people who don\u2019t know the comics. We\u2019re bringing back Merle [Michael Rooker] &#8211; It\u2019s going to get pretty intense and pretty crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Walking Dead<\/em> Season 3 is airing on FX in the autumn<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-26688-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ShQz68Zkb3Y&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ShQz68Zkb3Y\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ShQz68Zkb3Y<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive producers talk Michonne, The Governor and ramping up the action in Season 3 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":26691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[7,3,207],"tags":[1550],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/michonne-large-270712.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}