The Walking Dead director reveals timeline for ‘amazing’ season 10 finale and warns ‘there’s a lot teed up’ for Beta

THE Walking Dead director has teased fans promising an “amazing” season 10 finale.

Production on season 10 wrapped last year, but AMC delayed the release of the finale because it was forced to wrap after post-production was halted by the coronavirus lockdown.

As we have previously reported, The Walking Dead’s makeshift finale left fans on a major cliff-hanger.

In the wake of Alpha’s (Samantha Morton) death, Beta (Ryan Hurst) assumed control of The Whisperers and led their zombie horde to attack the members of the allied communities who’d been displaced by the attack on Hilltop.

The season 10 finale had been due to track the siege of the abandoned hospital where the group had taken shelter and will instead be screened later this year.

But the finale director Greg Nicotero has let fans into some secrets of the episode called, A Certain Doom, in a recent EW live event.

He said: “It’s a really amazing episode. I love the way episode 15 ends where you see Beta bringing the herd to the tower where everybody is holed up. There’s a lot teed up, so to speak.”

Given that in the previous episode the major battle between Beta (Ryan Hurst), the Whisperers and the remaining survivors, it meant the season 10 finale needed some major technical work to get it finished.

Greg explained: “You have to edit the episode, then you do sound effects, and then you do music, and then visual effects, and then colour timing to make sure all the colours in all the scenes match, and then you have to do a quality check to make sure nothing is messed up.

“So there are all these steps that have to happen, and generally speaking, the way our production schedule works is those happen up to about three weeks before the episode airs.”

All of that post-production work was supposed to be finished by March 22 but then the coronavirus pandemic hit and lockdown measures were put into force.

Greg added: “So there are all these steps that have to happen, and generally speaking, the way our production schedule works is those happen up to about three weeks before the episode airs.”

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