

Ī preview of season 2 was shown during the fourth season premiere of Breaking Bad on J and a full length trailer was released to promote season 2 at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 22, 2011. Four actors have joined the cast as new characters for season 2- Scott Wilson as Hershel Greene, Lauren Cohan as his daughter Maggie Greene, Pruitt Taylor Vince as Hershel's ranch hand, Otis, and Michael Zegen as Randall. Gimple, Evan Reilly, Angela Kang and one freelance writer, David Leslie Johnson.

Kirkman later confirmed that along with himself, Darabont and Mazzara the writing staff will consist of Scott M. At the same event, cast members speculated that acclaimed author and long-time Darabont collaborator Stephen King may write an episode. Īt C2E2 members of the cast confirmed that the second season would begin shooting on June 1, 2011, and that Darabont would write the season premiere episode.

In February 2011, it was announced that Glen Mazzara, who had written the first season episode " Wildfire", had been hired again as a writer/executive producer for the second season and will put together a staff of five more writers. This turned out to be not entirely accurate, and Robert Kirkman was quoted as saying the changes to the writing staff would not affect the production of the show.
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The cast and crew of The Walking Dead at PaleyFest in 2011 (left to right): executive producer Gale Anne Hurd, Andrew Lincoln ( Rick Grimes), Sarah Wayne Callies ( Lori Grimes), Jon Bernthal ( Shane Walsh), Laurie Holden ( Andrea), Steven Yeun ( Glenn Rhee), and Emma Bell ( Amy)Īfter the first season aired, Deadline Hollywood reported that series developer and showrunner Frank Darabont had let go the entire writing staff and planned to use only freelance writers for the second season. In the midst of events, Rick and the others try to restore order after a terrible discovery as differences begin to openly erupt between Rick and Shane Walsh ( Jon Bernthal). While searching for someone who has gone missing, the group eventually discovers an isolated farm, where tensions arise among members of the main group, and the mysterious and ignorant inhabitants of the farm, whose secrets and motives are unclear. After leaving Atlanta, Rick and the group are stopped on the highway by a threat unlike anything they have seen before. Mainly set at the Greene Family Farm, after the escape and destruction of the CDC, the season continues the story of Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln) and his group of survivors as they continue to survive in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by flesh-eating zombies, dubbed "walkers". This season adapts material from issues #7–12 of the comic book series and introduces notable comic characters Hershel Greene ( Scott Wilson) and his daughter, Maggie ( Lauren Cohan). The season finale was viewed by 9 million viewers, making it the highest-rated episode of the series up to that point and the most viewed episode of an original series on AMC in history, up until the premiere of the series' third season, which was watched by 10.9 million viewers. It won Best Television Presentation at the 38th Saturn Awards and Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie, or Special at the 64th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

It was executive produced by Darabont, Kirkman, Glen Mazzara, David Alpert, and Gale Anne Hurd, with Mazzara assuming the role of showrunner after Darabont's departure from the series. Developed for television by Frank Darabont, the series is based on the eponymous series of comic books by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. The second season of The Walking Dead, an American post-apocalyptic horror television series on AMC, premiered on October 16, 2011, and concluded on March 18, 2012, consisting of 13 episodes.
