'The Walking Dead' Season 7 Latest News & Update: Teaser Released Online
The cast and crew of "The Walking Dead" took over Madison Square Garden to tease the show's upcoming seventh season. In its return to New York Comic-Con (NYCC), it was implied that the footage would be exclusive to attendees but it was eventually released by the AMC moments after their panel concluded. Fans waited despite that the panel started a half hour late.
The seventh season will pick up immediately after the Season 6 finale cliffhanger. The season six finale titled "Last Day On Earth" saw the terrifying Negan capture Rick Grimes along with 10 other survivors, with one being savagely clubbed to death by his beloved "Lucille" baseball bat for having killed a number of his troops previously.
Director Greg Nicotero mentioned to Yahoo! that the Season 7 finale will be the series' 99th episode. Once Negan's victim is finally revealed, Nicotero says the show will be forever changed.
"The next season is a very different from the one we are accustomed to," he explained to DigitalSpy. "I think that people will enjoy that the show continues to change direction and doesn't just deliver the same thing over and over again. It's the logical place where our show should go. We close one chapter and open a whole new chapter."
In July 2016, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and three other cast members - Austin Amelio (Dwight), Tom Payne (Jesus) and Xander Berkeley (Gregory) - were promoted to series regular status. This means that The Walking Dead now has a larger regular cast than at any previous point in its history - with 20 actors signed up to regular contracts.
At Comic-Con in San Diego this summer, it was announced that Season 7 would debut October 23, 2016. Season seven's opening episode will be titled "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" - a callback to a line Dr Edwin Jenner says to Rick's group at Atlanta's Center For Disease Control back in season one.
