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More Behind the Scenes Photos From the Set of The Walking Dead Season 3
Last month, AMC.com shared some never-seen-before pics from the Season 3 set of The Walking Dead. Now you can check out an additional sixteen behind-the-scenes photos from the second half of Season 3, including Merle and Daryl's arena fight, Rick's feed store encounter with the Governor and more candid pics of cast members Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, David Morrissey, Laurie Holden, and Steven Yeun.
LA Times Wants Emmy Nod for Andrew Lincoln; NY Post on The Walking Dead's Influence
This week, the Los Angeles Times pushes for an Emmy nomination for Andrew Lincoln, while the New York Post discusses how The Walking Dead has influenced the broadcast networks. Plus, the drama's pilot is considered one of the all-time best by Complex. Read on for more:
• The Los Angeles Times recommends that the Emmys recognize Andrew Lincoln: "This season, he finally cracked and, whew, did you feel the grief and fatigue pouring out of him."
• The New York Post uses The Walking Dead as an example for why broadcast networks are exploring shortened and divided seasons, a move that enables AMC to "tout each return as a big event."
• Complex names The Walking Dead to its list of the 50 best TV pilots of all time, calling the first episode "one of the best pieces of visual zombie fiction ever made."
Dispatches From the Set - John Sanders (Props Master)
The Walking Dead's Props Master John Sanders talks about the strangest items he's found for the show and the new method of killing walkers that he's got in store for Season 4.
Q: As the guy in charge of all the props, what are some staples that bear your mark?
A: The new crossbow for Daryl -- I altered that one for the show. I took Norman [Reedus] to a bow range for him to shoot. I was kind of showing off with the guys there, and I was showing him some of the top-end crossbows. I let him shoot the Stryker 380, and once he shot that he had me take pictures of him and had me send them to the producers, and immediately it got in the works that we wanted him to have it. Michonne's sword I actually helped design between Season 2 and Season 3. I used some friends of mine at United Cutlery to help me. I knew it was a huge piece in the show, so I wanted to make something really iconic and add some elements that are really closer to my heart. The triple goddess and the trinity of life; those things are important to me in my life, and close to my wife.
Q: Do you find the actors getting attached to their character's weapons?
A: Andy [Lincoln] is very specific about the Python. He wants that gun on him every second of the day, when he can have it. He stays on set most of the time, so we pretty much let him walk around with that gun, and keep that in-character feel all day long. Norman always carries his knife all day long, same thing. And when he has the crossbow or the motorcycle, he likes to be in character, also. Michael Rooker when he died really wanted his bayonet prosthetic. Everybody wants a little memento, especially big character things, but we can't really let them go.
Q: There are certain situations where you use rubber guns and knives. Does that mean there are particular situations when you use real knives and real guns?
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The Walking Dead Cited in New York TV Feature; Season 4 First-Look Photo in E!, USA Today
This week, New York uses The Walking Dead as an example in its article on how to write a TV drama, while a new Season 4 photo of Rick and a walker in the woods gets coverage from E! Online, USA Today and others. Plus, New York describes the drama's storytelling style. Read on for more:
• New York's primer on how to write a TV drama cites Rick as an example for Rule 1A: "Start with an anti-hero. Make him middle-aged."
• E! Online and USA Today spotlight the first Season 4 photo, depicting Rick in the woods with a zombie. Deadline, HitFix, the Los Angeles Times, TODAY, Variety, TheWrap and Zap2it also ran the photo.
• New York cites The Walking Dead, with its "gritty, run-and-gun B-picture" storytelling style, to argue that TV is very much a director's medium.
First Look Photo From the Set of The Walking Dead Season 4
AMC released on Friday a First Look photo from The Walking Dead Season 4, featuring Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes back to work on the set in Atlanta, GA. Season 4 of The Walking Dead returns to AMC in October of this year. The cast and crew began production on May 6.
The Walking Dead is based on the comic book series created and written by Robert Kirkman and published by Skybound, Kirkman's imprint at Image Comics. The Walking Dead Season 3 out-delivered everything on television including The Big Bang Theory, The Voice, Game of Thrones, Modern Family, and almost doubled The Bible for the broadcast season for adults 18-49.
Andrew Lincoln Speaks With The Guardian; Class Begins at Greg Nicotero's Zombie School
This week, The Guardian talks to Andrew Lincoln about working in America, while Greg Nicotero's zombie school is featured in CarterMatt and Den of Geek. Plus, Forbes cites technology as a key to The Walking Dead's success. Read on for more:
• Andrew Lincoln gleefully tells The Guardian that The Walking Dead has liberated him as an actor because "in America I've been allowed to go grey and carry a gun."
• CarterMatt spotlights AMC's "rather awesome" video of Greg Nicotero's zombie school. Den of Geek tells viewers to take "a look at some of the sweet zombie moves."
• Forbes credits technology -- namely AMC's strategy of "making their hit series more readily available to audiences quickly growing accustomed to online entertainment" -- for The Walking Dead's ratings success.
Video - Behind the Scenes of The Walking Dead Season 4 Zombie School
Today, Mon., May 6, production officially kicks off for The Walking Dead Season 4. To celebrate, AMC.com hereby presents this first behind-the-scenes look at this season's zombie school. Check out the video now to see Executive Producer and Special FX Makeup Designer Greg Nicotero train a group of everyday extras to become members of the walking dead, and then instruct them to "kill the cameraman."
The Walking Dead returns Fall 2013.
Larry Gilliard, Jr. Joins Season 4; Steven Yeun Books Role in New Movie I Origins
This week, Larry Gilliard wins the part of Bob Stookey in Season 4 of The Walking Dead, while Steven Yeun is cast in a film to be directed by Mike Cahill. Plus, Michael Rooker talks about how easy it was to work with Norman Reedus. Read on for more:
• Larry Gilliard, Jr. has joined the Season 4 cast, playing Bob Stookey, "a former Army medic who is deeply haunted by his past -- both before and after the apocalypse," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
• Deadline reports that Steven Yeun has won a role in Mike Cahill's new movie I Origins.
• Michael Rooker speaks with Conversations LIVE about getting along so well with Norman Reedus that the actors really felt like brothers, saying, "We just hit it off you know on the set, and we just kept on doing it."
• Steven Yeun gives his impression of Season 3 to Wetpaint, observing, "It was no-holds-barred, kind of like Volume 11. It was really great, and we got to tell some amazing stories and kind of ramp up the energy."
The Walking Dead - Cold Storage Webisodes Win Two People's Voice Webby Awards
Today the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the 17th annual Webby Awards, and The Walking Dead - Cold Storage webisodes were honored with two People's Voice Awards as voted by you the fans in the Writing and Drama categories.
The awards are part of three netted by AMC.com this year, with the episodic behind-the-scenes video series Inside Breaking Bad winning the People's Voice Award for Branded Entertainment Unscripted. (Click here to learn more about Breaking Bad's win.)
In the Best Writing category, The Walking Dead defeated Veteran Pictures Studio's Adirondack, Paramount Pictures' Burning Love, Stun Creative's Presidential Clippings and DDB NY's Hashtag Killer for the award.
In the Drama category, The Walking Dead was selected over Yahoo!'s Tom Hanks' Electric City, Zanzibar Films' Cuckoo, Pereira & O'Dell's The Beauty Inside and chasing the hill's Chasing the Hill.
Click here to see the full list of Webby Award winners.
Click here to watch The Walking Dead - Cold Storage webisodes.
Behind-the-Scenes Photos From The Walking Dead Season 3
Want to find out what went into the making of Season 3 of The Walking Dead? Now you can, thanks to these all-new behind-the-scenes photos. Check out images of Andrew Lincoln (Rick) learning to use a machete and IronE Singleton (T-Dog) getting made up to be devoured by a zombie. You can even see Co-Executive Producer Greg Nicotero filling the Governor's walker head aquariums.
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More Behind the Scenes Photos From the Set of The Walking Dead Season 3
These new shots from Season 3 include pics of cast members Andrew Lincoln, David Morrissey, Laurie Holden, Norman Reedus, Michael Rooker, and Steven Yeun.
LA Times Wants Emmy Nod for Andrew Lincoln; NY Post on The Walking Dead's Influence
Plus, the drama's pilot is considered one of the all-time best by Complex.
Dispatches From the Set - John Sanders (Props Master)
John Sanders talks about the strangest props he's found for the show and the new method of killing walkers he's got in store for Season 4.
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