Robert Kirkman knows how he wants The Walking Dead to end

Last Updated on July 22, 2021

Although it will probably be a very long time from now, AMC’s “The Walking Dead” will eventually come to an end and creator of the comics and executive producer of the show, Robert Kirkman, says he already has the ending planned for both. In a recent interview with EW, Kirkman talks about the benefit of having so much of the comic book series laid out in front of the show, as it gives the series plenty of source material to draw from. The problem, however, is "hav[ing] enough seasons to get enough of the comic books into the show," said Kirkman. If the show continues to see the amount of success that the first four seasons have showed us, then I don’t see that being much of an issue.

As far as how this whole thing comes to an end, though, Kirkman says he knows exactly what he’s building towards. "I don't know exactly what issue that's going to fall on, per se, and I do have a lot of road laid out before that that is going to take a long time, but I certainly know exactly what I'm building to." He even went on to say that he already has the last page as well as the last scene of the show planned out.

"About a year or two ago, I finally nailed down exactly what I want the ending to be," Kirkman told EW. "So now I've kind of got two trails of story going in my head. One working to where I'm at very far into the future, and one working from the end backwards. When those two stories meet, then I'll know exactly how long the story is. I'm rapidly approaching that point."

That has to blow knowing exactly how you want your story to end but having to wait a long ass time before you see it realized. Hell, between now and when we see the final season of the “The Walking Dead” enter our living rooms, he could have come up with something entirely different. Who knows…

The fifth season of “The Walking Dead” kicks off on AMC this October 12th.

Lauren Cohan stars in "The Walking Dead"