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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 28 sepTember 2017
‘The Walking Dead’ reaches 100th episode milestone

By LISA MARIE PANE at Tyler Perry’s studios at
Associated Press nearby Fort McPherson.
SENOIA, Ga. (AP) — For One of the biggest advan-
seven seasons, AMC’s tages and challenges? The
“The Walking Dead” has grass and shrubs. “Greens
explored a world where help hide a million sins,”
the dead roam the earth Luse said. But they also
while the living seek safety have to ensure it doesn’t
— from other humans as get trimmed or mowed too
much as from the zombies often. “We have to con-
trying to tear into their flesh. stantly recreate that dead
There are characters whose look.”
faith is tested but find their Gale Anne Hurd, an execu-
grit and fierceness. There tive producer, attributes
are those who are kissups much of the cast’s com-
and latch themselves onto radery to Andrew Lincoln,
leaders, their will to survive who plays lead charac-
stronger than their pride. ter Grimes, a sheriff who
Then there are those who emerged from a coma to
seize a newfound power to find the zombie apoca-
terrorize and bully. Through lypse has turned the world
it all, it’s often difficult to upside down.
discern the difference be- In this image released by AMC, Lennie James portrays Morgan Jones, left, and Andrew Lincoln “We work and live in a bub-
tween who’s good and portrays Rick Grimes in a scene from “The Walking Dead.” The eighth season premieres on Oct. ble. And it’s great that’s
who’s evil, something that 22. the case because no one
evolves and can change Associated Press has changed,” Hurd said.
from moment to moment. chonne can lop off a head utive producer, as he gave a crew that considers itself “That’s what is special
And now, as the show ap- with her Katana. a group of journalists a tight-knit. about this show. Not one
proaches its 100th episode The Hilltop, ruled over by tour of the studio grounds. “I don’t know if we’ll shoot person from the (original)
— the kickoff to Season 8 drunkard and chauvinist It was a tough scene to here again,” Luse said, add- cast all of a sudden thinks
that launches on Oct. 22 — Gregory (played by Xan- shoot, he said, and it was ing later: “This is a shrine.” they’re some sort of super-
the characters are on the der Berkeley), took nearly even tougher to lose not Virtually everything is shot star and has a big trailer or
verge of war, a battle pit- four months to create, its only two beloved charac- on the site. One exception: an entourage. They’re still
ting character Rick Grimes 18th century architecture ters but two actors among The Kingdom, which is shot in two banger trailers.”q
and his band of loyalists brick exterior concealing
against Negan and the an interior that is basically Main character in Coben
Saviors, mixed in with a few a shell, devoid of any walls.
other communities whose Alexandria, the gated
allegiances sometimes shift community supposedly in
without warning. northern Virginia, is an ac- thriller is endearing, witty
For a full day this spring, tual subdivision that four
AMC invited a small group real families call home and
of journalists to the set to have to stay clear of the discreetly conducting Coben tells the story from
talk with the actors and film crews that flock there vigilante justice against Nap’s point of view, so fol-
crew involved in the show. six months out of the year. men who physically abuse lowing the mental steps he
Everyone took pains to The first season was shot women. One day two po- takes to find the truth adds
avoid revealing what was largely in Atlanta. By the lice officers arrive on his an extra layer to both the
in store in the next season. second season, Raleigh doorstep with some news. readability and the puzzle-
The main filming loca- Studios in Senoia — about A fingerprint along with ment of the story. When
tion is on a sprawling lot an hour south of Atlanta — DNA he put into the system the reveal happens, the
tucked behind this small had been created in this years ago has come back other characters have al-
south Georgia town where town of about 4,000. with a hit at the scene of ways assumed that Nap
most of this new world has Not only does it allow the a police officer’s shooting knew the truth but was in
sprouted: Raleigh Studios, show to create and keep at a traffic stop. The DNA denial. Readers know that
a constantly evolving set the communities that make matches his girlfriend who is not the case.
on 140 acres where all sorts up “The Walking Dead,” mysteriously disappeared The likeability of Nap is
of imaginary communities but it can be constantly re- This book cover image 15 years earlier, shortly af- paramount to this sto-
have been created from invented. The spot where released by Dutton shows ter the death of his twin ry, and even though he
scratch. Gabriel’s church once “Don’t Let Go,” by Harlan brother and his brother’s sometimes steps a bit out-
The Heap — an actual stood? It was torn down Coben. girlfriend. side the law for his own
mound of trash filled with and became the dirt circle Associated Press Nap never believed the of- brand of justice, he is both
all sorts of debris and cars where Season 6 ended with By JEFF AYERS ficial report of their death, endearing and sometimes
no newer than 2010 (the Rick and his crew kneeling Associated Press and has questioned ev- quite witty. Coben is the
year the world is said to before Negan, the spot A New Jersey detective erything about that fateful master of these types of
have died) — was created where beloved characters finds himself still haunted night. The more he inves- characters while expos-
in just three weeks to serve Glenn and Abraham were by events that occurred tigates her sudden reap- ing the hidden layers of
as the domain for Jadis slain at the end of Negan’s 15 years earlier in Har- pearance, along with her suburbia. There are a few
(played by Pollyanna Mc- barbed-wire covered bat. lan Coben’s latest thriller, involvement in a police elements that don’t make
Intosh), who speaks in an And now? It remains va- “Don’t Let Go.” officer’s murder, will lead sense in the grand scheme
odd clipped form of English cant. “This is pretty much Napoleon “Nap” Dumas Nap down a rabbit hole of things, but it doesn’t
and switches allegiances hallowed ground,” said spends his time working that will cause him to lose matter. This is all about
as fast as character Mi- Tom Luse, the show’s exec- for the police along with trust in everyone he loves. Nap and his quest.q