‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Spoilers: 11 Death Scenes Filmed for Negan’s Potential Victim; Cliffhanger to Change Show’s Future

‘The Walking Dead’ season 7 is set to expose one of the most shocking deaths in the series. It was revealed that 11 death scenes were filmed for Negan’s potential victim for the upcoming season. Season 6’s cliffhanger finale will reportedly change the show’s future.

Season 6’s finale, entitled “The Last Day on Earth”, sent speculations reeling regarding Negan’s (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) unfortunate murder victim after it ended on a shocking cliffhanger. According to Bustle, the series filmed 11 death scenes in total prompting further rumors that Negan may have bludgeoned more people than was previously expected. Anyone from Maggie to Daryl to Eugene may have succumbed to a fatal beating at the hands of one of the series’ most ruthless antagonists by means of a barb-wire covered baseball bat.

Andrew Lincoln, who plays main protagonist Rick Grimes, revealed that shooting scenes from the finale made him physically ill. Lincoln admitted during an interview with Variety, “It was a pretty traumatic and intense and weird two nights. It’s an astonishing scene and I thought Jeffrey Dean Morgan was just magnificent and magnetic in it.”

He added, “But also it was the first time I had felt a sense of unity and focus and intensity from everybody. All around the camera and also from the entire cast — I hadn’t felt like that since Season 1. It was a really exciting atmosphere on set. I think everybody realized that we had to rise to challenge and create this suspense for the scene to work and the episode to work.”

Lincoln explained that he felt ill while working on the finale since it crushed everything Rick was working for. The episode was the culmination of his failed leadership. He said, “I felt just powerless and frustrated and thwarted and angry and all of the things when I was reading it. It made me so upset… Everything [Rick] stood for is over. It hurt me, reading it. It hurt me, because he also feels responsible. He’s put these people — through his own pride perhaps or single-mindedness — he’s put everybody’s life in danger.”

When asked about who Negan’s mystery victim was for the final scene, he apologized that he could not elaborate further since he and his cast mates vowed to keep it secret.

Meanwhile, executive producer Greg Nicotero admitted that fans would expect a much different season 7 following the preceding season’s massive game changing cliffhanger. According to Digital Spy, Nicotero teased that the revelation of Negan’s victim would change the story line drastically.

He said, "The next season is a very different Walking Dead from the one we are accustomed to," he said. "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."

‘The Walking Dead’ is a horror-drama television series based on the comic book of the same name created by Robert Kirkman. Season 7 is scheduled to premiere on AMC on October 2016.