Right when they opened the writers’ room at the start of season 2, they said, “We want to do a field trip.” And I said, “Yeah! You should bring all the guys to KNB. They can walk around the shop, see what we’re building, what we’ve built, maybe get a little inspiration.” We had a whole bunch of stuff on display from other films that we had done. We had a mask that we made for Grindhouse of this infected guy, all bloated and distressed and disgusting.
I got a phone call two hours after they had left the shop. They said, “We want to do this idea: A walker fell into a well.” The well was filled with nine feet of water, and the walker would just start absorbing and absorbing all of the liquid in there, so that it would get completely bloated and discolored.
We had done some fake drowned bodies for movies in the past. One of the things we’ve noticed — looking at some morgue research and cadaver research — is that everything gets really swollen. The liquid saturates the skin so much that it swells up, and the skin starts to split. That was one of the things that we really wanted to play up.
Source: Full article @ Entertainment Weekly
The Walking Dead - Greg Nicotero Talks about the Well Zombie
23 Dec 2011
The Walking Dead
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The guys at KNB are amazing, the Emmy was truely deserved and it's gonna be hard to beat them in 2012.
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ReplyDeletethis zombie was gross looking lol
ReplyDeleteDang. Wearing sixty pounds of wet, rubberized silicone in July in Georgia has to be an absolute nightmare. I hope that guy from KNB was well paid for his efforts.
ReplyDeleteIf you never saw a dead body so bloated that the skin splits,well count your blessings!
ReplyDeletetha zombie was so nasty looking
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