'The Walking Dead' Season 6 News, Spoilers: Leaked Details Indicate Finale Won't Show Who Negan Kills
Only one more episode stands between "The Walking Dead" fans and the much-awaited season 6 finale, which is expected to introduce the zombie apocalypse series' biggest baddie to date, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
As readers of Robert Kirkman's "Walking Dead" comics know, Negan's arrival spells the end for fan favorite character Glenn (Steven Yeun). In the comic books, Negan uses his barbed wire-covered baseball bat, which he affectionately calls Lucille, to savagely beat Glenn to death. But while this is what occurs in the source material (and what fans expect), recent interviews with Yeun and "TWD" showrunner Scott M. Gimple, and leaked finale details from a "TWD" spoiler page, indicate that Glenn may be spared and that viewers won't find out who Negan kills until season 7 airs seven months hence.
"I know people are going to always go, 'Negan kills Glenn in the comics,' but rest assured that we don't necessarily do what's in the comics," Yeun told Entertainment Weekly earlier this month.
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"But taking inspiration from the moments of the comic book and playing them out to the ends of what it can be, it's all just like taking that moment from the book and figuring out a way to turn it up to get those feelings that it gave you and those emotions that it gave you that much more," Gimple said in a recent interview with EW.
Additionally, HNGN reports that alleged details about the finale were leaked by Spoil The Dead, a community website for fans of the popular AMC series. According to the group's list of confirmed and rumored plot details from the upcoming season 6 finale, Negan will show up and consider killing Maggie (Lauren Cohan), who is then in the middle of giving birth to her and Glenn's child. When Glenn interjects on her behalf, the sociopathic villain plays a game of "eeny, meeny, miny moe," chooses his victim, and bashes his/her head in.
According to the fan site, as this occurs, the perspective will shift to the victim's point of view, which means that viewers won't find out who it is that Negan is killing.
Could AMC really leave fans with this big a cliffhanger in the series' most-anticipated episode to date?
Cohan's recent comment may shed some light on it.
"It's the cliff-hangerest episode," she told ET.
"The Walking Dead" airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.
