Greg Nicotero promises a jaw-dropping finale for Walking Dead’s 10th season

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

The Walking Dead was set to wrap up its tenth season in April, but as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to spread, AMC announced that they would be unable to complete post-production on the season finale in time. "Current events have unfortunately made it impossible to complete post-production on The Walking Dead Season 10 finale," read the press-release, "so the current season will end with its 15th episode on April 5th. The planned finale will appear as a special episode later in the year." We still don't know exactly when the season finale of The Walking Dead's tenth season will debut, but Greg Nicotero teased that it will be well worth the wait while speaking with Fandom.

Greg Nicotero, who directed the season finale, said that the episode is one of his favourites of the season. "It tees us up so well for Season 11 that it’s a little agonizing for me to not be able to talk about it," Nicotero said. "The last two minutes of the finale are gonna just… people’s jaws are gonna drop." The penultimate episode of the season found Beta and his horde of zombies closing in, which is where the season finale will pick up.

Our group is now having to deal with this giant, massive [horde]… thousands of zombies surrounding where they’re safe. There’s a lot of character storylines [where] you get little bits of information here and here, but you want to end that chapter and then start the next chapter in the finale. So we address lots of stuff with Daryl, Negan, Beta, Carol… There’s always that challenge of pushing the visuals and pushing the story and pushing the emotion.

The finale will also feature the return of Lauren Cohan as Maggie, who left the series in the ninth season and will once again be a series regular in the upcoming eleventh season. "[Lauren] and I went back to Season 2 together," Nicotero said. "I had worked with her a lot. I think we were both had this nervous excitement about getting a chance to film again. After we had shot the first scene, it was like no time had passed." Nicotero added, "You found out, at the beginning of Season 10, that there were letters being written back and forth between Maggie and Carol, and the different communities. When Maggie reads one of these letters, and realizes what has been happening to her friends and their community, that sort of activates her." Are you looking forward to the jaw-dropping finale of The Walking Dead's tenth season?