Will there be dancing zombies on the latest TWD spinoff?
Daryl Dixon is lost.
And in more ways than one.
Norman Reedus on ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’.Emmanuel Guimier/AMC
But the title character ofThe Walking Dead: Daryl Dixonis lost in other ways as well.
Because those are the shores of France.
And Daryl Dixon doesnotspeak French.
Clémence Poésy as Isabelle on ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’.Emmanuel Guimier/AMC
“A lot of the story is him trying to figure out: Is this going to work?
Is this not going to work?
Is this going to be a fight?
Norman Reedus on ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’.Emmanuel Guimier/AMC
Are we cool?”
starNorman Reedustold EW prior to theSAG-AFRTA strike.
“He doesn’t speak the language, and that’s part of the story.”
The scenery change is one the crew took advantage of and went to great pains to accentuate.
The cinematography and the lighting and the production design all feels very romantic.
The whole vibe of the show had a very distinctly European feel."
So we had always been committed to doing something where we were shooting in another country.
There’s always that day zero when the apocalypse happened."
And that required some work for the production team.
“The fire in Notre Dame happened theoretically after the zombie apocalypse would have happened,” Nicotero explains.
“So the visual effects team rebuilt Notre Dame Cathedral pre-fire.
“The crew is different,” notes Reedus.
Even the zombies are different.
“They’re not extras, they’re dancers so they bend and move in weird ways.
It’s a combination of a horror film mixed with Cirque du Soleil.
It’s insane.”
It seems even in that way, the show is charting a brand new course.
“It’s a whole new ball game.”
And on September 10, it’s batter up.
