The Walking Dead franchise boss: We're not interested in a shared universe

Deadline

In an extensive interview, Scott Gimple was asked if The Walking Dead could end up becoming something like Marvel or the Arrowverse. "We’re not looking to lean on crossovers so much," he says. "It’s there as an option and it’s fun but we would want to make it special. We don’t want it to be the basis of our storytelling approach. The things that we’ve implied (about the wider universe) have always been things we wanted to follow and tell more of. The things that we’ve implied come in like rumors, little things that characters say about the outside world. There were things, for instance, that characters said in Season 2 of The Walking Dead that ignited my own imagination and some of those things are coming to fruition now seven years later in some of the things that we’re doing. It’s one of the pleasurable things about a shared-universe approach. It’s satisfying to look at different things from different angles and play them with different voices. It’s something that storytellers have been intrigued by for a long time."