“The Walking Dead” Season 7 premiere will finally reveal who Negan killed, but it will also offer fans their first look at The Kingdom.
The Kingdom is a community of survivors that has built up around a high school and is ruled over by a man calling himself King Ezekiel (played by Khary Payton). Lennie James, who plays Morgan on the hit AMC series, says that life at The Kingdom will take some getting used to for his character.
“I think The Kingdom, although it’s very different to Alexandria — very, very different to Alexandria, a lot bigger than Alexandria, it’s possibly the biggest world we will have come across so far — is equally as alien to Morgan as Alexandria was,” James told Entertainment Weekly.
James also talked about the role Ezekiel will play in the series in relation to the leaders of other groups we have met, like Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
“One of the important things about Ezekiel is the reason why he is what he is,” he told the magazine. “And the reason why he is what he is, is because it’s worked and it’s keeping a large group of people alive and everybody has their rules. And one of the things of ‘The Walking Dead’ is that the leaders of all the different kinds of worlds that we’ve come across are in some way kind of iconic.”
“He is running a kingdom, and as a kingdom, he is trying as best as he can to personify the image of a king, albeit a king who has a pet tiger,” James said.
Why it's her: Michonne and Rick began a romantic relationship this season, and what better way to crush fans' hearts than to make him watch her get beaten to death?
Why it's him: Reedus has a new AMC travel show and may want to free up his calendar. He was also on "Talking Dead," an honor usually reserved for people whose characters died.
Why it's her: She would make sense as a substitute for Glenn.
Why it's not her: Would the show really kill a sick pregnant woman who everybody loves?
AARON (ROSS MARQUAND)
Why it's him: He's had so little screen time, he's disposable.
Why it's not him: He's had so little screen time, his death would have no weight. We only have this one picture of the poor guy. If the show wants to kill him, it should give him more lines first.
EUGENE (JOSH MCDERMITT)
Why it's him: He's made a point of stepping up to prove himself a survivor, and, well irony.
Why it's not him: He still has room to grow. And so does his mullet.
Why it's him: Abraham died in the comics in the manner that ultimately led to Denise's death on the TV show a few weeks ago. With his arc complete in the comics, it would make sense to kill him off now.
Why it's not him: His refusal to cower seems to have maybe won him Negan's respect.
Why it's not her: Sasha turned her hopelessness around last season, and it would be too depressing for her to die now.
Why it's her: She's in the sweet spot for "Walking Dead" deaths: popular and long-running, but not so popular and long-running that the show can't go on without her.
Why it's not her: Because it would feel like the show once again built up a character just to kill her off when it was dramatically convenient.
CARL (CHANDLER RIGGS)
Why it's him: Some fans don't like him lately, and they didn't even soften when he lost his eye.
Why it's not him: Hasn't he been through enough? Also, Negan charmingly commands, "If anybody says anything, cut the boy's other eye out and feed it to his father," right before he bludgeons his victim to death. Chances are he wouldn't say that if he was about to kill Carl.
