I hope so. Kirkman has long credited the work of the late horror movie director George A. Romero as a key inspiration for The Walking Dead. Since then, we’ve seen the survivors understand more and more about how the virus works – for example, the fact that everyone is a carrier and will rise from the dead even if they haven’t been bitten. One of the biggest mysteries in AMC's beloved thriller (besides the miracle that no one has chosen to feed Carl to a group of zombies yet) is how the Walking Dead zombie virus works. Meghan has fallen out with family, staff, Press and public - spot the pattern? Dead virus walking. Fans will remember that when Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh) saved Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) by calling in a helicopter, she told his rescuers: "I have a B, not an A. I never had an A. THE Walking Dead’s zombie virus outbreak has remained shrouded in mystery since the beginning of the AMC drama. According to Kirkman, the cause of this pandemic is extraterrestrial in nature. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Aside from the explanation of the virus being "totally irrelevant" to the comic series, Kirkman also believes that the TV iterations of his work are unlikely to explore either the source of or cure for the virus. Maybe you're listening right now. April 2, 2017 by Maggie Panos. Shots fired! View our online Press Pack. Heres what we know about the virus from the walking dead: 1: A bite will turn you 2: destroying the brain is the only way to put them down. In this sci-fi re-skin, a lightsaber-wielding Michonne explains that hostile aliens unleashed the zombie horde to turn humanity into a race of slaves bound into service by harvesting water, which their alien overlords use as currency. Asked during a Fear the Walking Dead Comic-Con panel about what caused the virus in the first place, Hurd answered without hesitation: "The meth from Breaking Bad, for sure." Throwing aliens into the mix unnecessarily gives the show much stronger, out-of-place elements of science fiction that unfortunately take away from its realistic, grounded feel. There's something else you need to know. The Walking Dead has always been meant to feel like a grounded series that shows what would happen if a zombie virus actually did happen in real life. With this in mind, series creator Robert Kirkman, who wrote the comics upon which The Walking Dead is based, no doubt left fans’ jaws on the floor when he casually revealed what kick-started the fall of man on Twitter. "That seems like a very J.K. Rowling thing to do." He's said on numerous occasions that his entire magnum opus resulted from the supposition, "What if a zombie movie just kept going?" It's actually impressive that Kirkman, the series' creator, has kept his cards so close to his vest for so long considering the franchise has expanded to infect every quadrant of our media world: video games, books, TV — you name it. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. "It couldn’t be less important to the story and the lives of these characters. While not necessarily canon, a bonus ending for issue #75 was inspired by this misleading pitch. "Morgan..." He starts "I don't know if you're out there. Enserink M, Stone R. PMID: 11896253 [Indexed for MEDLINE] Publication Types: Now the assumption gleamed from that encounter has made a lot of people assume that the virus is airborne, but it is never said. For fans who have been following the story of The Walking Dead since Rick Grimes first awoke from his coma back in 2003, this revelation is a long time coming. Science. Through 193 issues of the original comic and no fewer than three television series set in Kirkman's post-apocalyptic world, we've seen survivors navigate every facet of this deadly scenario without any understanding of the zombie horde's pathogenic origins. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Then of course there was the fallen satellite opening sequence in the show’s season 10 premiere, which saw a Russian technology falling out of space and landing on the border of the allied territories. Fortunately for curious fans, it seems like Kirkman found his inner Rowling. It would be completely out of place in the story. Meghan Markle 'blamed Kate & Camilla's aides for leaking stories about her', Families could be hit by council tax rise of £100 a year in stealth tax raid, Longer school years could be split into FIVE terms, says Williamson, ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. In season one, the zombie virus quickly spread and caused chaos as … Creator Robert Kirkman is finally ready to talk about what caused the fictional zombie pandemic in The Walking Dead. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. THE Walking Dead: World Beyond has provided groundbreaking new information about the nature of the zombie virus that brought about the apocalypse. The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman seems to have just revealed the cause of the mysterious virus responsible for the zombie plague. THE Walking Dead’s zombie virus outbreak has remained shrouded in mystery since the beginning of the AMC drama. 1. 70 Shares The Walking Dead Creator Reveals Zombie Virus' Origin. I don't know if you can hear me. An aggressive virus kills and reanimates many people into walkers, who attack the prison inhabitants. The last CDC survivor, Dr. Jenner, showed a video of CDC subject 19. While certain fans may prefer a pat resolution to the apocalypse plaguing the world of The Walking Dead, Kirkman's instincts are probably spot-on. The English word "zombie" is first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, in the form of "zombi." Well, we’d say mission accomplished with the space spore. It’s probably something you’ve thought about once or twice before. At that time, he told a substantial white lie that the zombie pandemic in The Walking Dead was designed by aliens who intended to use the zombie apocalypse to make Earth a softer target for invasion. My wife and son, they're alive. It's not what they promised. Zombies in the show are named Walkers - here's how characters in the series try to defeat them. The Walking Dead has never been a series about finding a miraculous cure — it's a story about survivors re-establishing a new normal in a world that will never be the same. Last Friday during Fear the Walking Dead's Hall H panel for Comic-Con International in San Diego, the Q&A portion yielded a question showrunners have fielded ad nauseam since the franchise's inception: Where did the infection that caused the Walker apocalypse come from?It's such a popular query, another fan asked the same question at the Q&A for The Walking Dead panel less than an … “Honestly if a scientist from Washington came to the character and told them what happened the characters would just shrug and say 'Oh… okay…' it wouldn’t change their lives at all… and… I’ve said too much.". While hints have been provided here and … 'The Walking Dead' nails how a 'zombie virus' could spread. Well, wonder no more. CLEVELAND, Ohio – Fans of “The Walking Dead” probably already had their brains hooked on coronavirus. The Walking Dead claims that it's not the virus that kills you, but all evidence on-screen suggests otherwise. It's unclear whether or not "TWDWB" was simply making a nod to Kirkman's joke, making a joke of its own, or was delivering an off-the-cuff answer to the show's longest lingering mystery. "Maybe years after it's all over I'll just casually mention it in an interview," he said. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Remember, everyone in the Walking dead is already infected with the Zombie virus. The episode was written by Angela Kang and directed by Guy Ferland. The only character to claim understanding about the outbreak was Eugene Porter (Josh McDermitt), and even he later admitted that he’d been bluffing the entire time. In the TV series The Walking Dead, the characters inhabit a world overrun by zombies—specifically, zombies caused by a mysterious virus that … 's in The Walking Dead history. One of the biggest mysteries on The Walking Dead is what started the whole thing. Fans weren't sure they'd ever get a straight answer from Kirkman as to what started the zombie virus in The Walking Dead. the epic conclusion of his long-running tale, the late horror movie director George A. Romero, Kirkman had to concoct an outlandish backstory for the series. Based on what we know so far about The Walking Dead: World Beyond, the set of young protagonists are still grappling with the world of the undead. Kirkman ended his long-running comic book series last year after a whopping 193 issues – news that AMC execs admitted caught them off guard. It was a fast-acting virus. The city is..." He pauses and then st… As recently as 2018, in a Q&A on Tumblr, he dismissed the notion of revealing the source of the zombie contagion as irrelevant to the story he was telling. Fans weren't sure they'd ever get a straight answer from Kirkman as to what started the zombie virus in The Walking Dead. The same year, he joked during a Tumblr Q&A: “Maybe years after it’s all over I’ll just casually mention it in an interview. The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has given a reason for the zombie virus in the series, and we look at how seriously to take the explanation. I wanted you to know that. Good Luck! 2002 Mar 15;295(5562):2001-5. "Space spore," Kirkman confirmed on Twitter when a fan asked how the zombie virus started. The origin of the zombie virus on The Walking Dead has long been the show’s biggest mystery, but it’s also a mystery that the creator of the series, Robert Kirkman, has … Discovering a cure would undermine the entire premise. The CDC, could not determine if it was viral, microbial, fungal, or parasitic. There are some clues, that we can use to rule out a few possibilities. Immuocompromised Early on in the series, it's revealed that every human in the world is already infected with the zombie pathogen; while zombie bites accelerate the transformation, any death eventually results in zombification. Virtually every character acts like the zombie virus is a type of poison or sexually-transmitted infection that can be passed from one to the other, and this is most likely done to reap the benefits from two separate sets of rules.