Greg Nicotero talks about the Walking Dead spinoff he’d like to see

The Walking Dead showrunner Scott Gimple has made it known for some time his plans to expand on TWD universe with more spinoffs.

TWD director and make-up supervisor Greg Nicotero gave his two cents about it and revealed what kind of spinoff he would like to see.

Nicotero expressed interest in having a show that dealt with cold weather and winter.

"The one thing that the comic book does great [is] when they introduce the cold weather and the winter. I had even written some webisodes that took place with a frozen zombie herd. And I think that our hopes are — my hopes — would be that we would get into an entirely different location, like a cold weather scenario. Because frozen zombies are fucking awesome. Until they thaw out and then you’re screwed. Because they would freeze and thaw out, and they would be fine."

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It’s definitely an interesting idea for a TWD series since winter is not really a factor that’s been greatly explored before in TWD.  The show even skipped winter altogether when season 3 and possibly 4 came around.

A colder climate setting certainly has potential.  In a universe where walkers and even normal people pose a dangerous threat on a daily basis, the winter could potentially be an equally deadly foe.

One piece of literature that was really good with this is World War Z by Max Brooks.  One chapter in particular (which starts on page 152 in case you’re interested) had some people heading to northern Canada where the zombies would freeze over, in the belief that they could wait out the outbreak through the winter.

Zombies became more manageable but as the winter got colder they were quickly met with another problem: lack of survival skills.   As supplies dwindled and sources for food and heat evaporated, people naturally get more desperate for survival.  Eventually, as folks inevitably started dying out, the ones that were left resorted to cannibalism.

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To top it all off, as Nicotero pointed out, once spring came back around and the ice began to thaw, so did the zombies who were no worse for wear.

Do you think this a good idea for a TWD spinoff? Do you think they should have spinoffs at all?  Sound off in the comment section.